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To install and configure 

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Warning

The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum 

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Server Hardware Requirements

Following The following table lists the server hardware requirements:.

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Configuration Requirement
Processor

Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above)

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Note: Sonus recommend using Westmere (or newer) processors for better SRTP performance. These processors have the AES-NI instruction set for performing cryptographic operations in hardware.

 RAMMinimum 24 GB
Hard DiskMinimum 500 GB
Network Interface Cards (NICs)
Minimum 4 NICs.

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Note: Make sure NIC has multi-queue support which enhances network performance by allowing RX and TX queues to scale with the number of CPUs on multi-processor systems.

Ports

Number of ports allowed:

  • 1 Management port
  • 1 HA port
  • 2 Media ports

 

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BIOS Setting Recommendations

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BIOS ParameterRecommended
Setting
Details
Intel VT-x (Virtualization Technology)EnabledFor hardware virtualization
Intel Hyper-ThreadingEnabled 
Intel Turbo BoostEnabled 
CPU power managementMaximum Performance 

 

For example, the BIOS settings are shown below for HP DL 380p Gen8 servers. For BIOS settings of other servers, refer to the respective vendor's website.

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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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For more information, see Downloading SBC SWe Installation Files from Salesforce Portal.

Note

Make sure the Processors and VM configuration (CPUs, RAMs, Virtual Hard Disk, NICs, and bridge Settings) is must be identical for SBC SWe HA pair.

Make sure that the BIOS
Note

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

 

KVM Configuration Recommendations (REVIEWERS: THIS TABLE WAS COPIED FROM THE FOLLOWING WIKI PAGE: For VMware. PLEASE REVIEW AND MAKE APPROPRIATE CHANGES FOR KVM)

 

 

 

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 vCPU

Minimum 4 vCPUs required. But 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 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 Hypervisor.

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)
    • Hard disk size cannot be changed after SBC SWe software is installed
vNICs

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

  • Use only VMXNET3 driver.
  • Always use automatic MAC address assignment option while creating vNICs.
  • 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
 

 

 

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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