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This section describes SBC SWe hardware and software requirements and recommendations.
To install and configure SBC SWe, make sure the Virtual Machine (VM) host meets the following recommended hardware, server platform and software requirements.
The recommended hardware and software settings are intended to ensure optimum SBC SWe stability and performance. If the recommended settings are not used, SBC SWe system may not behave as expected.
The following table lists the server hardware requirements. Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem micro-architecture or above) with 6 cores and above (processors should support hyper threading). Westmere (or newer) processors are recommended for better SRTP performance. These processors have the AES-NI instruction set for performing cryptographic operations in hardware. 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. Number of ports allowed:Configuration Requirement Processor RAM Minimum 24 GB Hard Disk Minimum 500 GB Network Interface Cards (NICs) Ports
The SBC SWe software runs only on platforms using Intel processors. Platforms using AMD processors are not supported.
Sonus recommends the following BIOS settings for optimum performance:
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's website.
Following are KVM hypervisor and SBC SWe software requirements:SBC SWe for KVM Hypervisor – Software Requirements
For more information, see Downloading SBC SWe Installation Files from Salesforce Portal.
Processors and VM configuration (CPUs, RAMs, Virtual Hard Disk, NICs, and bridge Settings) must be identical for SBC SWe HA pair.
BIOS settings and recommendations must not be changed once it is applied on the server.