Hardware Requirements

This section describes the hardware requirements for installing and configuring DPDK.

Minimal Requirements

Following are the list of minimum hardware requirements:

• Probe machine (with DPDK) (2 Intel processors, each with 8 cores, 8 GB RAM, Intel based network card)
• Mediation Engine and Probe in one machine (at least 2 Intel processors and 24 cores in total, 24 GB RAM, Intel based network card)

Supported Servers

For supported servers, see the Session Monitor System Requirements section.

Supported Networking Cards

The following networking cards are supported:

• Sun Dual Port 10 GbE PCle 2.0 Networking Card with Intel 82599 10 GbE Controller
• Sun Quad Port GbE PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapter, UTP
• Sun Dual Port GbE PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapter, MMF