This section provides overview information about installing and running the Ribbon SBC Software Edition (SWe) software in virtual environments. The virtual SBC application software includes the same basic features and functionality as included with the physical SBC.




Warning

The SBC Core system is a closed network device. Customer modifications at the Linux level are not allowed or supported. These modifications can cause stability, update and fail-over issues.

Customers should only configure the SBC using the supported interfaces (Ribbon SBC Core CLI, REST API, EMA, or Ribbon EMS).


Note

While performing image-based instantiation procedures to install the SBC such as, Installation and Image Replacement Upgrade on KVM Using a QCOW2 File, or Installing SBC on VMware vCenter Using OVA Package, the timezone and NTP values you provide are not configured, and the application timezone defaults to EST/EDT.