This section describes the Hardware and Software requirements of Distributed SBC SWe Cloud on an OpenStack platform.
Server Hardware Requirements 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. 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. The system hosting SBC SWe must meet the following requirements: S-SBC SWe Requirement 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 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.
Configuration Requirement Processor
RAM Minimum 24 GB Hard Disk Minimum 500 GB Network Interface Cards (NICs)
S-SBC SWe Requirement Notes It must be Huge Page memory and the minimum page size is 2048 KiB.
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 Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|
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. |
All NIC ports must come from the same NUMA node where M-SBC SWe instance is hosted.
SBC Configurator Requirement
| SBC Configurator Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|
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. |
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