This section describes the Hardware and Software requirements of Distributed SBC SWe Cloud on an OpenStack platform.

Server Hardware Requirements

 
ConfigurationRequirement
Processor

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

Note

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. 

 RAMMinimum 24 GB
 Hard DiskMinimum 500 GB
Network Interface Cards (NICs)

Minimum 4 NICs.

Note

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.

Note

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

Note

6 NICs are required for supporting PKT port redundancy.

The system hosting SBC SWe must meet the following requirements: 

S-SBC SWe Requirement

S-SBC SWe RequirementNotes

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.

Note

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

 M-SBC SWe RequirementNotes

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.

Note

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

SBC Configurator Requirement

 SBC Configurator RequirementNotes

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.

 

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