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This section describes the Hardware and Software requirements of Distributed SBC SWe Cloud on an OpenStack platform.
Server Hardware Requirements
Configuration | Requirement |
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Processor | Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above) with 6 cores and above (processors should support hyper threading).
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.
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RAM | Minimum 24 GB |
Hard Disk | Minimum 500 GB |
Network Interface Cards (NICs) | Minimum 4 NICs.
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.
The PKT ports must be 10 Gbps SR-IOV enabled port.
6 NICs are required for supporting PKT port redundancy.
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The system hosting SBC SWe must meet the following requirements:
S-SBC SWe Requirement | Notes |
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40 vCPUs | Due to the workload characteristics, allocate 20 physical cores with two hyper-threaded CPUs from each core to the SBC. |
128 GiB RAM | It must be Huge Page memory and the minimum page size is 2048 KiB. |
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 6 vNICs for enabling PKT port redundancy. For more information, refer to SBC SWe Cloud Features Guide. |
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.
M-SBC SWe Requirement | Notes |
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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 | It must be Huge Page memory and the minimum page size is 2048 KiB. |
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 6 vNICs for enabling PKT port redundancy. , refer to SBC SWe Cloud Features Guide. |
All NIC ports must come from the same NUMA node where M-SBC SWe instance is hosted.
SBC Configurator Requirement
SBC Configurator Requirement | Notes |
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4 vCPUs | None |
16 GiB RAM | None |
80 GB Disk | None |
4 vNICs | Attach MGT0 port to the Management VirtIO Tenant network. HA port has to be on IPv4 VirtIO Tenant network. |
The D-SBC SWe is pre-release software intended for Sonus partners and customers for non-production use by special arrangement. The software is made available through FTP service. Contact your Sonus representative to arrange a download posting. You must provide your (company) e-mail as the download link is associated with that e-mail.