Hardware platform and resource requirements using
Virtualization
Hardware platform and resource requirements using Virtualization
Virtualization is supported using both VMware vSphere ESXi and RHEL KVM. All other
forms of virtualization or virtualization products are not supported.
For installations of the 5620 SAM Server, 5620 SAM Database, and 5620 SAM Auxiliary
Collector on a Guest Operating System of a virtualized installation, the Guest Operating
System must be a 5620 SAM supported version of RHEL 6 Server x86-64. For
installations of the 5620 SAM Client and 5620 SAM Client Delegate on a Guest
Operating System of a virtualized installation, the Guest Operating System can be either a
5620 SAM supported version of RHEL 6 Server or Windows.
Defined CPU and Memory resources must be reserved and dedicated to the individual
Guest OSs and cannot be shared or oversubscribed. Additional hardware resources should
be reserved for use by the host hypervisor installation to ensure that the resources
assigned to the Guest OSs is not impacted. Disk and Network resources should be
managed appropriately to ensure that other Guest OSs on the same physical server do not
negatively impact the operation of 5620 SAM.
Virtualized installations of 5620 SAM are server vendor agnostic but must meet specific
hardware criteria and performance targets to be used with 5620 SAM. Server class
hardware must be used, not desktops. Processor support is limited to Intel and AMD
based x86 CPUs with a minimum CPU core speed of 2.4GHz, from the following
microarchitechtures and variants:
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Intel Westmere E7-xxxx, X56xx, and E56xx
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Intel Sandy Bridge E5-26xx, and E5-46xx
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Intel Ivy Bridge E5-26xx v2, and E5-46xx v2
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Intel Ivy Bridge E7-28xx v2, E7-48xx v2, and E7-88xx v2
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Intel Haswell E5-26xx v3, E5-46xx v3, and E7-88xx v3
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AMD Opteron 63xx
For best performance, storage should be either internal disks (10K or 15K RPM SAS),
Fiber Channel attached storage (array or SAN) with dedicated Fiber Channel connections
between hosts and Storage Arrays, or 10Gb iSCSI using non-shared infrastructure. All
storage must meet the performance metrics provided with 5620 SAM Platform Sizing
Responses. Performance must meet the documented requirements for both throughput and
latency.
Platform requirements
Hardware platform and resource requirements using
Virtualization
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5620 SAM
3HE-09809-AAAG-TQZZA 13.0 R7
Issue 1
December 2015
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