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This section describes the hardware and software requirements for SBC SWe Cloud on an OpenStack platform.

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OpenStack Requirements

The SBC SWe supports the following OpenStack environments:

Newton with RHOSP 10 and RHEL 7.4
Queens with RHOSP 13 and RHEL 7.5

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The SBC SWe Cloud was tested on OpenStack Queens with RHOSP 13 and RHEL 7.5.

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Configuration

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Processor

Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above) with 6 cores and above (processors should support hyper-threading).

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Ribbon recommends Westmere (or newer) processors for better SRTP performance. These processors have the AES-NI instruction set for performing cryptographic operations in hardware.

RAM

Minimum 24 GiB

Hard Disk

Minimum 100 GB

Network Interface Cards (NICs)

Minimum 4 NICs.

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

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The Intel I350, x540, x550, and 82599 Ethernet adapters are supported for configuring as SR-IOV and DirectPath I/O pass-through devices.

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The PKT ports must be 10 Gbps SR-IOV enabled portports.

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6 NICs are required for supporting to support PKT port redundancy.

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The system hosting the SBC SWe must meet the following requirements to achieve the performance targets listed:

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S-SBC SWe Requirements for 1000 CPS/120K Signaling Sessions	Notes
32 vCPUs	Due to the workload characteristics, allocate 20 physical cores with two hyper-threaded CPUs from each core to the SBC.
128 GiB RAM	Must be Huge Page memory. The minimum page size is 2048 KiB, but 1048576 is recommended.
100 GB Disk	None
4 vNICs/6 vNICs	Attach MGT0 port to the Management VirtIO Tenant network. HA port has to be on IPv4 VirtIO Tenant network. Attach PKT0 and PKT1 ports to SR-IOV and Provider network. You must require have 6 vNICs for enabling to enable PKT port redundancy. For more information, refer to the SBC SWe Cloud Features Guide.

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All NIC ports must come from the NUMA node 0. The S-SBC SWe instance is hosted on dual-socket physical server with 10 physical cores coming from each NUMA node.

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M-SBC SWe Requirements for 30K Media Sessions	Notes
20 vCPUs	Due to the workload characteristics, allocate 10 physical cores with two hyper-threaded CPUs from each core and from single NUMA node to the SBC.
32 GiB RAM	Must be Huge Page memory. The minimum page size is 2048 KiB, but 1048576 is recommended.
100 GB Disk	None
4 vNICs/ 6 vNICs	Attach MGT0 port to the Management VirtIO Tenant network. HA port has to be on IPv4 VirtIO Tenant network. Attach PKT0 and PKT1 ports to SR-IOV and Provider network. You must require have 6 vNICs for enabling to enable PKT port redundancy. For more information, refer to the SBC SWe Cloud Features Guide.

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All NIC ports must come from the same NUMA node from which the M-SBC SWe instance is hosted.

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OAM Node (minimum)	Notes
4 vCPUs	None
16 GiB RAM	None
80 GB Disk	None
4 vNICs	None

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I-SBC SWe Requirements	Notes
20 vCPUs
32 GiB RAM	Must be Huge Page memory. The minimum page size is 2048 KiB, but 1048576 is recommended.
100 GB Disk	None
4 vNICs/ 6 vNICs	Attach MGT0 port to the Management VirtIO Tenant network. HA port has to be on IPv4 VirtIO Tenant network. Attach PKT0 and PKT1 ports to SR-IOV and Provider network. You must require have 6 vNICs for enabling to enable PKT port redundancy. For more information, refer to the SBC SWe Cloud Features Guide.

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