Alcatel-Lucent support personnel must be provided with the details of the provisioned
Virtual Machine. These details can either be provided through read-only access to the
hypervisor or must be available to Alcatel-Lucent support when requested. Failure to
provide these details could impact support of 5620 SAM.
VMware Virtualization
5620 SAM supports using VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0 only, on x86
based servers natively supported by ESXi. VMware’s Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
should be consulted to determine specific hardware support. Not all features offered by
ESXi are supported when using 5620 SAM. For example, Memory Compression, or
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) are not supported. Alcatel-Lucent should be
contacted to determine if a specific ESXi feature is supported with a 5620 SAM
installation.
Defined CPU and Memory resources must be reserved and dedicated to the individual
Guest OSs and cannot be shared or oversubscribed. Provisioned CPU resources must be
based upon CPU cores and not threads. If threaded CPUs are used, the number of vCPUs
required should be multiplied by the number of threads per physical CPU core and
assigned to the Virtual Machine.
Virtual Machine Version 8,9, or 10 must be used. The disk must be “Thick Provisioned”
with “Eager Zero” set. The SCSI controller must be set to “VMware Paravirtual” and the
Disk Provisioning must be “Thick Provision Eager Zero”. The Network Adapter must be
“VMXNET 3”. See the following table for additional Virtual Machine setting
requirements.
Table 3-1
VMware Virtual Machine Settings
Resource Type
Parameter
Setting
CPU
Shares
set to High
Reservation
slider set to full CPU capacity
Limit
check box checked for Unlimited
Advanced CPU
Hyperthreaded Core Sharing
Mode
Set to Internal for hyper-threaded enabled CPUs and None otherwise
Memory
Shares
set to High
Reservation
slider set to the size of the memory allocated to the VM
Limit
check box checked for Unlimited
Advanced Memory
NUMA Memory Affinity
No affinity
Disk
Shares
set to High
Limit - IOPs
set to Unlimited
Platform requirements
Hardware platform and resource requirements using
Virtualization
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