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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


Please not that these are NOT Netscout's official recommendations.  This atricle is based on COMCERT's personal experience.
Please note that these are NOT Netscout's official recommendations; sizes are based on COMCERT's experience of building, installing, maintaining and operating test and measurement equipment for various size customers 


COMCERT can build, install and maintain a nGeniusOne Server on any physical server or virtual machine, provided that the following minimum specifications are met.
Our virtual (VPMA) and physical (PMA) appliances are available as turnkey solutions.  Contact your sales representative for more information about our appliances.
 
The result will be almost identical to that of our Performance Management Appliance 65 and 85 and incorporates over 15 years of experience building, installing and operating test and measurement equipment.
 
Contact your sales representative for more information.


 
 
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== Solution ==
== Solution ==


=== Minimum system requirements for <span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">physical servers</span> ===
=== Minimum system requirements for nGeniusONE Server on Virtual Performance Appliance 48 ===


==== For less than 5&nbsp;concurrent users and/or less than 20 interfaces, without UC ====
VPMA-48&nbsp;is COMCERT's fundament for building nGeniusONE Server.&nbsp; It offers great&nbsp;flexibility for long-time running nGenius Servers in secure datacenters. The final virtual appliance is build from OVA/OVF template i.e., you <u>do not</u> have to create a&nbsp;virtual machine.&nbsp; Just make sure the resources are available in your virtual environment at the time of deployment.&nbsp; You also need to knoo what datastore to use and the name of the virtual port group to connect the management interface.


*Enterprise class server with:
These are the properties of the VM (deployed from OVA/OVF):
**Single hex core processor 1.9&nbsp;GHz or better
**24GB of RAM
**3 SATA HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)  
**2-port &nbsp;Gigabit NIC
**Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred


*VM version 10 (for ESXi 5.5 or higher - can be upgraded <u>after a successful&nbsp; installation</u>)
*OS Oracle Linux 8&nbsp;Open VMware Tools* installed and running
*8 CPU
*64 GB memory
*1 NIC (VMXNET3)
*1 SCSI controller (LSI Logic Parallel)
*First hard disk: 65GB (thick provision, lazy zeroed)
*Second hard disk: 500GB (thick provision, lazy zeroed)


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(*) per VMware recommendation: [https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803?lang=en_US https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803?lang=en_US]
 
==== For less than&nbsp;10 concurrent users and/or less than&nbsp;50 interfaces, with or without&nbsp;UC ====
 
*Enterprise class server with:  
**Dual quad core processor 2.4&nbsp;GHz or better
**64GB of RAM
**3 SAS&nbsp;HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)
**2-port &nbsp;Gigabit NIC
**Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred
 


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==== For more than&nbsp;10 concurrent users and/or between 50 and 100&nbsp;interfaces, with or without&nbsp;UC ====
*Enterprise class server with:
**Dual quad core processor 3.6&nbsp;GHz or better
**64GB of RAM
**3 SAS&nbsp;HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)
**2-port &nbsp;Gigabit NIC
**Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred
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=== Minimum system requirements for <span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">virtual machines</span> ===
NGS has been tested with KVM and VMware ESXi 5.5 and higher. Start small. Resources can be added&nbsp;easily when required.
The virtual machine will be build from a custom&nbsp;OVF template, not available upfront.
*VM version 10 (requires ESXi version 5.5 or higher) with:
**8&nbsp;CPU
**32GB memory
**2 NIC (VMXNET3)
**1 SCSI controller (LSI Logic Parallel)
**Hard disk 1: 65GB (thick provision lazy zeroed)
**Hard disk 2: 135GB minimum&nbsp;(thick provision lazy zeroed)
The number of CPU and memory size may&nbsp;be reduced after installationt buy it is required during installation.

Latest revision as of 13:10, 17 March 2023

Introduction

Please note that these are NOT Netscout's official recommendations; sizes are based on COMCERT's experience of building, installing, maintaining and operating test and measurement equipment for various size customers 

Our virtual (VPMA) and physical (PMA) appliances are available as turnkey solutions.  Contact your sales representative for more information about our appliances.

 

Solution

Minimum system requirements for nGeniusONE Server on Virtual Performance Appliance 48

VPMA-48 is COMCERT's fundament for building nGeniusONE Server.  It offers great flexibility for long-time running nGenius Servers in secure datacenters. The final virtual appliance is build from OVA/OVF template i.e., you do not have to create a virtual machine.  Just make sure the resources are available in your virtual environment at the time of deployment.  You also need to knoo what datastore to use and the name of the virtual port group to connect the management interface.

These are the properties of the VM (deployed from OVA/OVF):

  • VM version 10 (for ESXi 5.5 or higher - can be upgraded after a successful  installation)
  • OS Oracle Linux 8 Open VMware Tools* installed and running
  • 8 CPU
  • 64 GB memory
  • 1 NIC (VMXNET3)
  • 1 SCSI controller (LSI Logic Parallel)
  • First hard disk: 65GB (thick provision, lazy zeroed)
  • Second hard disk: 500GB (thick provision, lazy zeroed)

(*) per VMware recommendation: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803?lang=en_US

 

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