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Cisco Media Gateway Controller Node Manager Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Installation Overview and Planning
Determine Your Hardware Requirements
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Cisco VSPT (only) installed on a Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch host machine
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Cisco MNM installed on a server and Cisco VSPT installed on a separate server
Caution
Cisco MNM is not supported on a Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch host machine.
Hardware Recommendations
Before you find the suitable hardware platform for Cisco MNM, determine your network deployment
size.
Table 1-1
gives guidance on how to determine your network deployment size.
You have two options to get the hardware platforms for Cisco MNM:
•
Reuse old Sun SPARC-based platforms.
You cannot use Sun OPETRON-based platforms or X86 platforms for Cisco MNM. Old Sun
SPARC-based platforms, Sun Fire 240 and Sun Netra 240, were fully tested with Cisco MNM. Other
old Sun SPARC-based platforms might be interoperable.
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Order new hardware platforms.
Table 1-2
describes Cisco MNM hardware recommendations for various network sizes.
Note
The Cisco MNM host machine requires the minimum number of drives indicated in
Table 1-2
. These are
recommendations to aid you in planning. The total amount of disk space required depends on many
factors, such as the amount of alarm and performance data collected.
Table 1-1
Network Deployment Size
Criteria
Small Deployment
Medium Deployment
Large Deployment
PGW Pairs
1–3
6–10
11–20
Gateways
1–10
11–40
41–100
HSI
1–3
6–10
11–20
BAMS
1–2
2–3
2–5
Table 1-2
Hardware Recommendations for the Cisco MNM Host Machine
Network Deployment Size
Host Machine Components
Platform
CPU
Hard Disks
RAM
Small Deployment
Sun Netra T5220
4 core
2 x 73 GB
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1.
Two-drive machines work for smaller networks that have less traffic and fewer operators. Response time to operator commands increases as the network
grows and additional operators are added.
8 GB
Medium Deployment
Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5220
8 core
7 x 146GB
16GB
Large Deployment
Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5220
8 core
7 x 146GB
16GB
