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The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum 

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This section describes

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hardware and software requirements and recommendations.

To install and configure the 

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, make sure the Virtual Machine (VM) host meets the following recommended hardware, server platform and software requirements.

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The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum 
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stability and performance

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If the recommended settings are not used, the

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SBC SWe for VMware – Server Hardware Requirements

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The 

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software only runs on platforms using Intel processors. Platforms using AMD processors are not supported.

The following table lists the server hardware requirements:

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 ConfigurationRequirement
Processor

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

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Sonus

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


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The supported CPU Family

Number

number is 6 and CPU Model

Number

number must be newer than 26. Refer to the Intel Architecture and Processor Identification document for more information.


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ESXi 6.5 and later releases

requires

require approximately 2 physical cores to be set aside for hypervisor functionality.

Number

The number of VMs which can be hosted on a server

needs to

must be planned for accordingly.


 RAMMinimum 24 GB
Hard DiskMinimum 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 SWe optimizations)

.

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Make sure

NIC has

NICs have multi-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, and 82599 Ethernet adapters
  • following NICs are supported for configuring as SR-IOV and DirectPath I/O pass-through devices.
The
  • SR-IOV is supported only with
10Gbps
  • 10 Gbps interfaces (x540/82599
).
  • /x710):

Intel I350, x540, x550, x710 and 82599, Mellanox Connect - 4x, and Mellanox Connect - 5x. 

  • The VMware Enterprise Plus license is required for SR-IOV.
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Intel x710 NICs are also supported on VMware (ESXi versions 6.5 and above) with SR-IOV enabled. x710 NICs are not supported on Direct I/O or KVM. 


Ports

Number of ports allowed:

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

 

 

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The 

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BIOS Setting Recommendations

Sonus recommends the following BIOS settings for optimum performance:

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BIOS ParameterRecommended
Setting		Details
Intel VT-x (Virtualization Technology)EnabledFor hardware virtualization
Intel VT-d (Directed I/O)EnabledIf available
Intel Hyper-ThreadingEnabled 
Intel Turbo BoostEnabled 
CPU power managementMaximum Performance 

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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 website.

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BIOS ParameterRecommended
Setting		Default Value
HP Power Profile Maximum 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
Data Direct I/OEnabledDisabled
SR-IOVEnabledDisabled
Intel® VT-dEnabledDisabled
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SBC SWe for VMware – Software Requirements

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Using older versions of ESXi can trigger a VM instance shutdown. To prevent this from occurring, you must upgrade the VMware ESXi -- refer to the End of General Support column on https://lifecycle.vmware.com/#/ for supported versions.


The following are the

VMware ESXi and 

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 software requirements

 requirements for VMware ESXi environments:

VMware ESXi Requirements

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SoftwareVersion*Tested and Qualified VersionFor More Information
vSphere ESXi
5
6.
1
0 or above
  • VMware 6.0 tested with VM version 11
  • VMware 6.5 tested with VM version 13
  • Customized ESXi images for various server platforms are available on VMware and
Hardware
  • hardware platform vendor sites.
    It ensures
      • These ensure that all the required drivers for network and storage controllers are available to run ESXi server.
      • Most of the customized ESXi images
    comes
    (under Download images)
    vSphere Client5.1 or above
     

    		VMware Knowledge Base
    vCenter Server5.1 or above
     

    		vCenter Server


    *    The version must be supported. See the End of General Support column at https://lifecycle.vmware.com/#/ for supported versions. 

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    The VMware

    Standard License will be sufficient for SWe SBC unless the PKT interfaces for SBC SWe needs to be configured in Direct IO Pass-through mode. In that case, the Enterprise Plus version of VMware ESXi software is required

    Enterprise Plus license is required for SR-IOV.


    Third-Party References:

    Downloading the SBC SWe Software Package

    For more information, refer to Downloading the SBC SWe Software Package.

    Sonus Recommendations for Optimum Performance

    Following are recommended VMware ESXi and

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    virtual machine (VM) configurations. 

    General ESXi Recommendations

    Following are recommended VMware ESXi configurations:

    • Plan enough resources (RAM, CPU, NIC ports, hard disk, etc.) for all the virtual machines (VMs) to run on server platform, including resources needed by ESXi itself.
    • Allocate each VM only as much virtual hardware as that VM requires. Provisioning a VM with more resources than it requires can, in some cases, reduce the performance of that VM as well as other virtual machines sharing the same host.
    • Under BIOS settings, disconnect or disable any physical hardware devices (floppy devices, network interfaces, storage controllers, optical drives, USB controllers, etc.)  that you will not be using to free up CPU resources.

    • Use virtual hardware version 8 and above when creating new VMs (available starting in ESXi 5.x). This provides additional capabilities to VMs such as supporting a VM with up to 1 TB RAM, up to 32 vCPUs, etc.

    AnchorESXi_ParamESXi_ParamESXi Host Configuration Parameters

    Use VMware vSphere client to configure the following ESXi host configuration parameters on the Advanced Settings page (see figure below) before installing the

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    ESXi Parameter

    		ESXi 5.1 SettingsESXi 5.5 SettingsESXi 6.0 SettingsESXi 6.5 Settings

    Recommended

    Default

    Recommended

    Default

    Recommended

    Default

    		RecommendedDefault

    Cpu.CoschedCrossCall

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01

    Cpu.CreditAgePeriod

    500

    3000

    		100010001000100010003000

    DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01

    DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01

    Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding

    256

    32

    		n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Irq.BestVcpuRouting

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    		10

    Mem.BalancePeriod

    0

    15

    0

    15

    n/a

    n/a

    		n/an/a

    Mem.SamplePeriod

    0

    60

    0

    60

    n/a

    n/a

    		n/an/a

    Mem.ShareScanGHz

    0

    4

    0

    4

    0

    4

    		04

    Mem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit

    0

    4294967295

    0

    4294967295

    0

    4294967295

    		04294967295

    Misc.TimerMaxHardPeriod

    2000

    100000

    2000

    100000

    2000

    100000

    		2000500000

    Misc.TimerMinHardPeriod

    		100

    100

    		n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Net.AllowPT

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    		11

    Net.MaxNetifRxQueueLen

    500

    100

    500

    100

    500

    100

    		500n/a

    Net.MaxNetifTxQueueLen

    1000

    500

    1000

    500

    1000

    500

    		10002000

    Net.NetTxCompletionWorldlet

    0

    1

    		01n/an/an/an/a

    Net.NetTxWordlet

    0

    2

    		12121n/a

    Numa.LTermFairnessInterval

    0

    5

    0

    5

    0

    5

    		05

    Numa.MonMigEnable

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01

    Numa.PageMigEnable

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01

    Numa.PreferHT

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    		10

    Numa.RebalancePeriod

    60000

    2000

    60000

    2000

    60000

    2000

    		600002000

    Numa.SwapInterval

    1

    3

    1

    3

    1

    3

    		13

    Numa.SwapLoadEnable

    0

    1

    0

    1

    0

    1

    		01
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    VM Configuration Recommendations

    The following configurations are recommended to improve performance.

    Configure the VM Latency Sensitivity setting to High in VM Options > Advanced configurations as shown below:

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    1VM Options Window

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    Limit instances to using cores from a single NUMA by configuring the numa.nodeaffinity option according to the number of the NUMA node the VM is on. Access this option using the path: VM Options > Advanced > Configuration Parameters > Edit Configuration  For example, in the following figure the Numa node is 0. 

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    1Configuration Parameters Window

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    Additional VM configuration recommendations appear in the following table.

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    1VM Configuration Recommendations

     

     SettingsRecommended Configuration
    vCPU

    Minimum 4 vCPUs required. Any number of vCPUs may be configured depending upon the call capacity requirements, but the number should be even (4, 6, 8, etc.) to avoid impacting performance.

    Keep the Resource Allocation setting marked as 'unlimited.' Refer to Adjusting Resource Allocations for a VM for more information on setting CPU-related parameters.

     vRAM

    Keep the Resource Allocation setting marked as 'unlimited'. Reserve the memory based on call capacity and configuration requirements. Refer to SBC SWe Performance Metrics 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)
      • Hard disk size cannot be changed once 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 on
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      • 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.

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        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 standby
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      VMs on different physical servers
    • Disable VM logging
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    titleNote

    Make sure the Processors, ESXi version and VM configuration (vCPUs, vRAMs, Virtual Hard Disk, vNICs, and vSwitch Settings) must be identical for SBC SWe HA pair.

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

     
    • -supported Intel processor meets the ESXi hardware requirements.


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