1. Release Notes
  2. Introduction to S-Cz9.2.0
  3. Supported Platforms
  4. Requirements for Machines on Private Virtual Infrastructures

Requirements for Machines on Private Virtual Infrastructures

In private virtual infrastructures, you choose the compute resources required by your deployment. This includes CPU core, memory, disk size, and network interfaces. Deployment details, such as the use of distributed DoS protection, dictate resource utilization beyond the defaults.

Default vSBC Resources

The default compute for the ESBC image files is as follows:

  • 4 vCPU Cores
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 20 GB hard disk (pre-formatted)
  • 8 interfaces as follows:
    • 1 for management (wancom0 )
    • 2 for HA (wancom1 and 2)
    • 1 spare
    • 4 for media

Small Footprint vSBC

Minimum resources for a small footprint ESBC, typically used for SIP trunking to a PBX for non-transcoded, low-volume traffic, should be configured with the following resources:

  • 2 vCPU Cores
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 20 GB hard disk (pre-formatted)
  • 2 interfaces as follows:
    • 1 for management (wancom0 )
    • 1 for media

The Small Footprint vSBC does not support the following:

  • IMS-AKA Feature
  • Transcoding
  • IP-Sec Tunnels
  • MSRP

Interface Host Mode for Private Virtual Infrastructures

The ESBC VNF supports interface architectures using Hardware Virtualization Mode - Paravirtualized (HVM-PV):

  • ESXi - No manual configuration required.
  • KVM - HVM mode is enabled by default. Specifying PV as the interface type results in HVM plus PV.

Supported Interface Input-Output Modes for Private Virtual Infrastructures

  • Para-virtualized
  • SR-IOV
  • PCI Passthrough
  • Emulated - Emulated is supported for management interfaces only.

Supported Ethernet Controller, Driver, and Traffic Type based on Input-Output Modes

The following table lists supported Ethernet Controllers (chipset families) and their supported driver that Oracle supports for Virtual Machine deployments. Reference the host hardware specifications, where you run your hypervisor, to learn the Ethernet controller in use. The second table provides parallel information for virtual interface support. Refer to the separate platform benchmark report for example system-as-qualified performance data.

Note:

Virtual SBCs do not support media interfaces when media interfaces of different NIC models are attached. Media Interfaces are supported only when all media interfaces are of the same model, belong to the same Ethernet Controller, and have the same PCI Vendor ID and Device ID.

For KVM and VMware, accelerated media/signaling using SR-IOV and PCI-pt modes are supported for the following card types.

Ethernet Controller Driver SR-IOV PCI Passthrough
Intel 82599 / X520 / X540 ixgbe M M
Intel i210 / i350 igb M M
Intel X710 / XL710 / XXV710 i40e, i40enFoot 1, iavfFoot 2 M M
Mellanox Connect X-4 mlx5 M M
Mellanox Connect X-5Foot 3 mlx5 Foot 4 M NA

Footnote 1 This driver is supported on VMware only.

Footnote 2 iavf driver is support in SR-IOV n/w mode

Footnote 3 KVM only

Footnote 4

Device Part number: 7603662 Oracle Dual Port 25 Gb Ethernet Adapter, Mellanox (for factory installation)

Validated with 10G Speed using SFP- Fibre cables with 7604269 Oracle 10/25 GbE Dual Rate SFP28 Short Range (SR) Transceiver is used during validation.

Note:

Although the OCI VM.Optimized3.Flex shapes provide three launch options to select networking modes, always select Option 3, Hardware-assisted (SR-IOV), for the ESBC.

For PV mode (default, all supported hypervisors), the following virtual network interface types are supported. You can use any make or model NIC card on the host as long as the hypervisor presents it to the VM as one of these vNIC types.

Virtual Network Interface Driver W/M
Emulated e1000 W
KVM (PV) virtio W/M
Hyper-V (PV) hv_netvsc W
Hyper-V (PV) failsafe M
VMware (PV) VMXNET3 W/M
KVM (PV) virtio W/M
KVM (PV) mlx5 W

Emulated NICs do not provide sufficient bandwidth/QoS, and are suitable for use as management only.

  • W - wancom (management) interface
  • M - media interface

Note:

Accelerated media/signaling using SR-IOV (VF) or PCI-pt (DDA) modes are not currently supported for Hyper-V when running on Private Virtual Infrastructures.

CPU Core Resources for Private Virtual Infrastructures

Virtual SBCs for this release requires an Intel Core i7 processor or higher, or a fully emulated equivalent including 64-bit SSSE3 and SSE4.2 support.

If the hypervisor uses CPU emulation (for example, qemu), Oracle recommends that you set the deployment to pass the full set of host CPU features to the VM.