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BIOS Setting Recommendations

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BIOS ParameterRecommended
Setting
Default Value
HP Power ProfileMaximum PerformanceBalanced Power and Performance
Thermal ConfigurationMaximum CoolingOptimal Cooling
HW PrefetchersDisabledEnabled
Adjacent Sector PrefetcherDisabledEnabled
Processor Power and Utilization MonitoringDisabledEnabled
Memory Pre-Failure NotificationDisabledEnabled
Memory Refresh Rate1x Refresh2x Refresh
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Software Requirements

Following are KVM hypervisor and SBC SWe software requirements:

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BIOS settings and recommendations must not be changed once it is applied on the server.

 

 

KVM Configuration Recommendations

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 vCPU

Minimum 4 vCPUs required. But

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in case where there are only four physical cores available, you must configure the VM with only 3 vCPUs. Any number of vCPUs may be configured depending upon the call capacity requirements

.Keep Resource Allocation setting marked as 'unlimited' with CPU freq. set to "physical processor CPU speed multiplied by number of vCPUs assigned to VM"

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3-vCPUs configuration is supported only from SBC 4.2.4 release.

 VMDirectPath

KVM Direct-IO mode is only supported for PKT ports for vCPUs >=4.

 vRAM

Keep Resource Allocation setting marked as 'unlimited'. Reserve the memory based on the VM capacity requirement.
For capacity and performance related information, see VMware Hypervisorcall capacity and configuration requirements. Refer to benchmarking data for supported call capacities with different configuration limits.

Virtual Hard Disk 

Set Hard Disk (virtual) size as 100 GB or more (based on requirements of retaining CDRs, logs, etc. for number of days)

  • Use Thick provisioning (eager zero)
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    Note: Hard disk size cannot be changed after the SBC SWe software is installed.

    vNICs

    Set number of virtual NICs as 4 (1-MGMT, 1-HA, 1-PKT0 and 1-PKT1).

  • Always use automatic MAC address assignment option while creating vNICs.
    • Use
    only VMXNET3 driver.
    • only Virt-IO driver.
    • Associate each vNIC to separate
    vSwitches.
  • Use ESXi NIC teaming feature to achieve redundancy at physical NIC level.
  • vSwitch settings
    • Use four different vSwitches for each vNICs onSBC VM. This ensures various traffic to be physically separated on SBC.
      • Assign 1 physical NIC port (1 Gbps) to each vSwitch if physical NIC redundancy is not needed, otherwise assign 2 physical NIC ports (in active-standby mode using NIC team feature) to each vSwitch.

        The same physical NIC port cannot be associated with different vSwitches.

    • Use four different virtual networking labels, each with different VLANs or subnets.
    • Always run active and standbySBC VMs on different physical servers
    • Disable VM logging
    • bridges.
     

     

     

    Note
    • Processors, ESXi version and VM configuration (vCPUs, vRAMs, Virtual Hard Disk, vNICs, and vSwitch Settings) must be identical for SBC SWe HA pair.
    •  BIOS and ESXi settings and recommendations must not be changed once it is applied on the server.

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