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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.  These values are based on COMCERT's personal experience.


COMCERT can build, install and maintain a nGeniusOne Server on any physical server or virtual machine, provided that the following minimum specifications are met.
COMCERT builds, installs and maintains nGeniusOne Server on any physical server or virtual machine, provided that the following minimum specifications are met.


The resulting system will be almost identical to that of our Performance Management Appliance 65 and 85.  These appliances incorporate over 15 years of experience building, installing and operating test and measurement equipment.
The resulting system will be almost identical to that of our Performance Management Appliance 65 and 85.  These appliances incorporate over 15 years of experience building, installing and operating test and measurement equipment.


Contact your sales representative for more information.
Contact your sales representative for more information about our appliances.


 
 
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=== Minimum system requirements for <span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">physical servers</span> ===
=== Minimum system requirements for <span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">physical servers</span> ===


==== Small: less than 5&nbsp;concurrent users and/or less than 20 interfaces, without UC ====
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==== Medium: less than&nbsp;10 concurrent users and/or less than&nbsp;50 interfaces, with or without&nbsp;UC ====
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==== Large: more than&nbsp;10 concurrent users and/or between 50 and 100&nbsp;interfaces, with or without&nbsp;UC ====
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*Enterprise class server with:  
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Revision as of 20:12, 11 October 2017

Introduction

Please note that these are NOT Netscout's official recommendations.  These values are based on COMCERT's personal experience.

COMCERT builds, installs and maintains nGeniusOne Server on any physical server or virtual machine, provided that the following minimum specifications are met.

The resulting system will be almost identical to that of our Performance Management Appliance 65 and 85.  These appliances incorporate over 15 years of experience building, installing and operating test and measurement equipment.

Contact your sales representative for more information about our appliances.

 

Solution

Minimum system requirements for physical servers

Small: less than 5 concurrent users and/or less than 20 interfaces, without UC

  • Enterprise class server with:
    • Single hex core processor 1.9 GHz or better
    • 24GB of RAM
    • 3 SATA HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)
    • 2-port  Gigabit NIC
    • Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred


 

Medium: less than 10 concurrent users and/or less than 50 interfaces, with or without UC

  • Enterprise class server with:
    • Dual quad core processor 2.4 GHz or better
    • 64GB of RAM
    • 3 SAS HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)
    • 2-port  Gigabit NIC
    • Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred


 

Large: more than 10 concurrent users and/or between 50 and 100 interfaces, with or without UC

  • Enterprise class server with:
    • Dual quad core processor 3.6 GHz or better
    • 64GB of RAM
    • 3 SAS HD 7.2K rpm 1TB or better (RAID 5)
    • 2-port  Gigabit NIC
    • Out-of-band management like iDRAC or ILO preferred


 

Minimum system requirements for virtual machines

NGS has been tested with KVM and VMware ESXi 5.5 and higher. Start small; resources can be added easily when required.

The virtual machine will be build from a custom OVF template, not available upfront.

The number of CPU and memory size may be reduced after installationt buy it is required during installation.

  • VM version 10 (requires ESXi version 5.5 or higher) with:
    • 8 CPU
    • 32GB memory
    • 2 NIC (VMXNET3)
    • 1 SCSI controller (LSI Logic Parallel)
    • First hard disk: 65GB (thick provision lazy zeroed)
    • Second hard disk: 135GB minimum (thick provision lazy zeroed)