Defined CPU and Memory resources must be reserved and dedicated to the individual
Guest OSs and cannot be shared or oversubscribed. Provisioned CPU resources must be
based upon CPU cores and not threads. If threaded CPUs are used, the number of vCPUs
required should be multiplied by the number of threads per physical CPU core and
assigned to the Virtual Machine.
The Disk Controller type must be set to “virtio”, the storage format must be configured as
“raw”, cache mode set to “none”, the I/O mode set to “native”, and the I/O scheduler set
to “deadline”. The NIC device model must be “virtio”. The hypervisor type must be set to
“kvm”.
Minimum hardware platform requirements
Minimum hardware platform requirements
The following tables specify the minimum hardware platform requirements necessary to
successfully operate the 5620 SAM application in a bare metal configuration.
The minimum platform requirements also represent the smallest configurations suitable
for lab evaluations and demonstrations of the 5620 SAM product.
For OS installation purposes, a DVD-ROM is recommended. For easier management of
the system, a graphics card is recommended.
Minimum hardware platform and resource requirements
The following four tables list the minimum hardware platform requirements for
deployments of 5620 SAM Release 13.0 product on the RHEL x86-64 operating systems.
Table 3-4, “5620 SAM Virtual Machine minimum configuration” (p. 3-8)
and
“5620 SAM Virtual Machine minimum configuration with auxiliary” (p. 3-9)
list the
minimum hardware requirements for deployments of 5620 SAM using VMware vSphere
ESXi or RHEL KVM in lab deployments and
Table 3-6, “5620 SAM Virtual Machine
minimum collocated configuration” (p. 3-10)
lists the minimum resource requirements for
live deployments of 5620 SAM using VMware vSphere ESXi or RHEL KVM.
The minimum collocated x86 platforms will deliver acceptable performance in situations
in small network which are expected to be relatively static. If the rate of changes in the
network or if the rate of transactions through the OSS application(s) are expected to
exceed a few changes per second, the collocated minimum platform specified below will
not be sufficient to deliver adequate performance. In that case, the distributed minimum
platform is recommended.
Red Hat support must be purchased for all platforms running RHEL Server with 5620
SAM. It is strongly recommended to purchase a support package from Red Hat that
provides 24x7 support.
Platform requirements
Hardware platform and resource requirements using
Virtualization
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