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Back to Installing SBC SWe on Virtual Platforms
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SBC SWe for VMware – Server Hardware Requirements
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| | RAM | Minimum 24 GB | | Hard Disk | Minimum 500 GB | | Network Interface Cards (NICs) | Minimum 4 NICs, if physical NIC redundancy is not required. |
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BIOS Setting Recommendations
Sonus recommends the following BIOS settings for optimum performance:
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| Intel VT-x (Virtualization Technology) | Enabled | For hardware virtualization | | Intel VT-d (Directed I/O) | Enabled | If available | | Intel Hyper-Threading | Enabled | | | Intel Turbo Boost | Enabled | | | CPU power management | Maximum 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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| HP Power Profile | Maximum Performance | Balanced Power and Performance | | Thermal Configuration | Maximum Cooling | Optimal Cooling | | HW Prefetchers | Disabled | Enabled | | Adjacent Sector Prefetcher | Disabled | Enabled | | Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring | Disabled | Enabled | | Memory Pre-Failure Notification | Disabled | Enabled | | Memory Refresh Rate | 1x Refresh | 2x Refresh | | Data Direct I/O | Enabled | Disabled | | SR-IOV | Enabled | Disabled | | Intel® VT-d | Enabled | Disabled |
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SBC SWe Requirements
For more information, see Downloading SBC SWe Installation Files from SalesForce Portal.
Sonus Recommendations for Optimum Performance
Following are recommended VMware ESXi and
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.
- Disconnect or disable any physical hardware devices (Floppy devices, Network interfaces, Storage controllers, Optical drives, USB controllers, etc.) under BIOS settings that you will not be using to free up interrupt/CPU resources.
Use virtual hardware version 8 and above while creating new VMs (available starting ESXi 5.x). This provides additional capabilities to VMs such as supporting VM with up to 1 TB RAM, up to 32 vCPUs etc.
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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".
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| 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)
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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.
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- Use four different virtual networking labels, each with different VLANs or subnets.
- Always run active and standby VMs on different physical servers
- Disable VM logging
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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. |
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