NGeniusONE Server requirements

Introduction

Please note that these are NOT Netscout's official recommendations; sizes are based on COMCERT's experience.

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

These physical servers are also available from COMCERT as turnkey solutions, incorporating over 15 years of experience building, installing and operating test and measurement equipment.

Contact your sales representative for more information about our appliances.

nGeniusONE Server can also be installed as a virtual appliance. 

 

Solution

Minimum system requirements for nGeniusONE Physical Server

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
  • 4 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
  • 4 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
  • 128GB of RAM
  • 8 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 nGeniusONE Virtual Appliance

VPMA-45 is COMCERT's foundation for nGeniusONE Server. The virtual appliance is build from an OVA archive. You do not have to create the virtual machine; just make sure the resources are available in your virtual environment at the time of deployment, including the location of the datastore and the virtual port group to connect the interface to.

These are the properties of the VM that will be created during deployment:

• VM version 10 (ESXi 5.5 or higher is required)
• OS Centos 7 with Open VMware Tools* installed and running
• 8 CPU
• 48GB 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