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The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum

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stability and performance. If the recommended settings are not used, the

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system may not behave as expected.

In this section:

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:

SBC SWe for VMware – Server Hardware Requirements

Configuration	Requirement
Processor	Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above) with 6 cores and above (processors should support hyper threading). Note 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. Note The supported CPU Family number is 6 and CPU Model number must be newer than 26. Refer to the Intel Architecture and Processor Identification document for more information. Note ESXi 6.5 and later releases require approximately 2 physical cores to be set aside for hypervisor functionality. The number of VMs which can be hosted on a server must be planned for accordingly.
RAM	Minimum 24 GB
Hard Disk	Minimum 500 GB
Network Interface Cards (NICs)	Minimum 4 NICs, if physical NIC redundancy is not required. Note Make sure 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. Note The following NICs are supported for configuring as SR-IOV and DirectPath I/O pass-through devices. SR-IOV is supported only with 10 Gbps interfaces (x540/82599/x710): Intel I350, x540, x550, x710 and 82599, Mellanox Connect - 4x, Mellanox Connect - 5x, and CISCO VIC. The VMware Enterprise Plus license is required for SR-IOV.
Ports	Number of ports allowed: 2 Management ports. For more information on the second Management port, refer to Second Management Port for SWe Deployed in VMware. 1 HA port 2 Media Ports (no port-redundancy) 4 Media ports (with port-redundancy)

SBC SWe for VMware – Software Requirements

Warning

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

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requirements for VMware ESXi environments:

Software	Version	Tested and Qualified Version	For More Information
vSphere ESXi	6.0 or above	VMware 6.7.3 tested with virtual hardware version 14 VMware 7.0.2 tested with virtual hardware version 19	Customized ESXi images for various server platforms are available on VMware and hardware platform vendor sites. These ensure that all the required drivers for network and storage controllers are available to run ESXi server. Most of the customized ESXi images come with customized management software to manage the server running the ESXi software. Customized ESXi images for HP ProLiant and IBM servers are available at: HP Servers Custom Image for HP Servers Custom Image for IBM Servers
vSphere Client	5.1 or above		VMware Knowledge Base
vCenter Server	5.1 or above		vCenter Server

Note

The VMware Enterprise Plus license is required for SR-IOV.

Third-Party References:

Refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide (external site) for a list of VMware-supported Intel processors.
Refer to ESXi hardware requirements to ensure the VMware-supported Intel processor meets the ESXi hardware requirements.

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