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BIOS Setting Recommendations
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HP Power Profile | Maximum Performance | Balanced Power and Performance | Thermal Configuration | Maximum Cooling | Optimal Cooling | HW Prefetchers | Disabled | Enabled | Adjacent Sector Prefetcher | Disabled | Enabled | Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring | Disabled | Enabled | Memory Pre-Failure Notification | Disabled | Enabled | Memory Refresh Rate | 1x Refresh | 2x 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 In 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". 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). 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. only VMXNET3 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.
- 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
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- 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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