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1. Create an OpenStack flavor that suits your needs using the Dashboard GUI.

1. Log on to OpenStack GUI dashboard as admin user.

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   0 Figure 1 OpenStack Log In 3 OpenStack Log In Page

2. On the navigation pane, click Admin > Flavors. Click Create Flavor to define a new flavor.

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   0 Figure 1 Flavors 3 Flavors

3. To create Flavor, specify the following values:
1. Specify the flavor name.
2. By default, the ID is auto.
3. Specify the resource requirements (VCPU, RAM, and Root Disk) by referring the respective EMS, SBC, and PSX requirements, mentioned in Cloud Software _D-SBC SWe Requirements section.
4. Type or select 0 in Ephemeral Disk (GB) field.
5. Type or select 0 in Swap Disk (MB) field.

6. By default, the RX/TX Factor is 1. Change the value if necessary.

7. Click Create Flavor to create the flavor.

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   0 Figure 1 Creating Flavor 3 Create Flavor

2. After the flavor is created with specified configuration, the following screen is displayed:

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   0 Figure 1 Flavor Created 3 Flavor Created

Additional Flavor Settings for D-SBC

Execute the following steps for creating D-SBC flavors:

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Log on to OpenStack CLI as admin user and execute the following command to enable CPU Pinning for Signaling-SBC:

nova flavor-create S-SBC-PT auto 61404 80 20
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:mem_page_size=2048
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:numa_nodes=2
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:numa_cpus.0=0-9 hw:numa_mem.0=30702
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:numa_cpus.1=10-19 hw:numa_mem.1=30702
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:cpu_policy=dedicated hw:cpu_thread_policy=isolate
nova flavor-key S-SBC-PT set hw:cpu-socket=2 hw:cpu_cores=10 hw:cpu_threads=1 hw:cpu_max_sockets=2 hw:cpu_max_cores=10 hw:cpu_max_threads=1

Log on to OpenStack CLI as admin user and execute the following command to enable CPU Pinning for Media-SBC:

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Refer to VNF Performance Tuning page for SBC SWe flavor settings using Openstack CLI.