Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above)
Note
It is recommended to use Westmere (or newer) processors for better SRTP performance. These processors have the AES-NI instruction set for performing cryptographic operations in hardware.
Note
The supported CPU family is 6 and CPU models must be newer than 26.
RAM
Minimum 24 GB
Hard Disk
Minimum 500 GB
Network Interface Cards (NICs)
Minimum 4 NICs, if physical NIC redundancy is not required.
Otherwise, 8 NICs (preferably with SR-IOV capability to support future SWe optimizations).
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.
Note
Only Intel I350 Ethernet adapter is supported for configuring as VMDirectPath I/O pass-through device.