Deploying on Azure with accelerated networking

Accelerated networking is required for higher performance of media interfaces, but it is not supported by management interfaces. When you create a virtual machine on Azure and login to view the MAC address, the management and media interfaces have incorrect MAC addresses. It is important to swap the interfaces to map them to their proper MAC addresses and enable accelerated networking for all media interfaces.

To create a virtual Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) on Azure with Accelerated networking enabled:

  1. Create a virtual machine on Azure with the required parameters.
  2. Stop the instance.
  3. Create a minimum of two media interfaces and attach to the instance.
  4. Start the instance.
  5. Login to the virtual machine.
  6. Reset the default password using either of the two ways:
    • Type the default password.
    • Use a SSH key.

      If you type the default password, for a user account, it is acme followed by VM Id (without any space between acme and VM Id).

      For e.g. acmed1b1f958-d8f0-4559-b3f1-60cf311b0d46

      Note:

      Obtain the VM Id from the JSON View of the VM in Azure.

      For an admin account, the default password is packet followed by VM Id (without any space between packet and VM Id).

      For e.g. packetd1b1f958-d8f0-4559-b3f1-60cf311b0d46

      If you use a SSH key,

      • Change ssh-key file permissions to 400
        ORACLE# chmod 400 <sshkey>
      • Type the below command:
        ORACLE# ssh -i <sshkey> admin@<VM public IP>
  7. Use the setup product command to setup the specific SBC product.
  8. Use the setup entitlement command to self-configure the required entitlements.
  9. Use the interfaces mappingcommand to view the interfaces with their respective MAC addresses.
  10. Swap the interface showing incorrect MAC address with the interface having correct MAC address.

    Note:

    Verify the MAC address from Azure portal > VM > Network interface > Properties > MAC Address.
  11. Stop the instance.
  12. Enable the accelerated networking for all media interfaces.
  13. Start the instance.