2 System Requirements

This chapter describes software and hardware requirements for Oracle Communications Converged Application Server.

Supported Configurations

Converged Application Server is supported for production use on the operating system, hardware, and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) combinations shown in Table 2-1.

Note:

Production deployment is supported only for Linux and UNIX platforms. Windows platforms are supported only for development purposes.

Table 2-1 Supported Configurations

Operating System	Hardware Architectures	Java Virtual Machines	Exceptions and Additional Information
Oracle Solaris 10	SPARC 32-bit and 64-bit	Oracle JRockit and Oracle Java Hotspot	Oracle VM 2.1.2+
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	x86-32, x86-64	Oracle JRockit and Oracle Java Hotspot	N/A
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4	x86-32, x86-64	Oracle JRockit and Oracle Java Hotspot	N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	x86-32, x86-64	Oracle JRockit and Oracle Java Hotspot	For Red Hat EL 5 (UL3+) on Oracle VM, minimum update level required is Red Hat EL 5 (UL3+) on Oracle VM 2.1.2+
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5	x86-32, x86-64	Oracle JRockit and Oracle Java Hotspot	For Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (UL3+) on Oracle VM, minimum update level required is Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (UL3+) on Oracle VM 2.1.2+
HP-UX 11i V3	Intel Itanium (IA-64)	HP JVM	N/A

Converged Application Server has similar requirements to Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1. The following items are required in addition to the basic WebLogic Server requirements:

Gigabit Ethernet connections are required between engine and SIP data tier servers for most production deployments.
Dual network interface cards (NICs) are required to provide fail-over capabilities in a production environment.
Additional RAM is required to support the throughput requirements of most production installations.
A supported load balancer is required for production installations.

Supported SIP Clients

Converged Application Server and the included sample applications support the following SIP soft-phones:

CounterPath eyeBeam (see http://www.counterpath.com/eyebeam.html)

See the CounterPath eyeBeam documentation for instructions on using eyeBeam.

Supported Load Balancers

Converged Application Server has been tested to run with:

F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP load balancer, versions 9.0.5 through 9.2.3 Build 34.3.
Nortel Networks Alteon 2424 Application Switch with software release 22.0.3.
Radware Application Switch 2 with software version 1.01.01, hardware version 1.10.

See the Oracle Technology Network (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/index.html) for information about support for other load balancer solutions.