Supported Hypervisors for Private Virtual Infrastructures

Oracle supports installation of ESBC on the following hypervisors:

• KVM: Linux kernel version 3.10.0-123 or later, with KVM/QEMU (2.9.0_16 or later) and libvirt (3.9.0_14 or later)
• VMware: vSphere ESXi (Version 6.5 or later)
• Microsoft Hyper-V: Microsoft Server 2012 R2 or later

Compatibility with OpenStack Private Virtual Infrastructures

Oracle distributes Heat templates for the Newton and Pike versions of OpenStack. Use the Newton template when running either the Newton or Ocata versions of OpenStack. Use the Pike template when running Pike or a later version of OpenStack.

Supported Public Cloud Platforms

The ESBC can be run on the following public cloud platforms.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) - After deployment, you can change the shape of your machine by, for example, adding disks and interfaces. OCI Cloud Shapes and options validated in this release are listed in the table below.

  Shape	OCPUs/VCPUs	vNICs	Tx/Rx Queues	Max Forwarding Cores	DoS Protection
  VM.Standard1.4	4/8	4	2	2	Y
  VM.Standard1.8	8/16	8	2	2	Y
  VM.Standard1.16	16/32	16	2	2	Y
  VM.Standard2.4	4/8	4	2	2	Y
  VM.Standard2.8	8/16	8	2	2	Y
  VM.Standard2.16	16/32	16	2	2	Y

  Networking using image mode [SR-IOV mode - Native] is supported on OCI. PV and Emulated modes are not currently supported.

• Amazon Web Services (EC2) - This table lists the AWS (ECs) instance sizes that apply to the ESBC.

  Instance Type	vCPUs	Memory (GB)	Max NICs
  c5.xlarge	4	8	4
  c5.2xlarge	8	16	4
  c5.4xlarge	16	32	8
  c5.9xlarge	36	72	8
  c5.12xlarge	48	96	8
  c5.18xlarge	72	144	15
  c5n.xlarge	4	10.5	4
  c5n.2xlarge	8	21	4
  c5n.4xlarge	16	42	8
  c5n.9xlarge	36	96	8
  c5n.18xlarge	72	192	15

  Driver support detail includes:

  • ENA is supported on C5/C5n family only.

  Note:

  C5 instances use the Nitro hypervisor.
• Microsoft Azure - The following table lists the Azure instance sizes that you can use for the ESBC.

  Size (Fs series)	vCPUs	Memory	Max NICs
  Standard_F4s	4	8	4
  Standard_F8s	8	16	8
  Standard_F16s	16	32	8

  Size	vCPUs	Memory	Max NICs
  Standard_F8s_v2	8	16	4
  Standard_F16s_v2	16	32	4

  Size types define architectural differences and cannot be changed after deployment. During deployment you choose a size for the OCSBC, based on pre-packaged Azure sizes. After deployment, you can change the detail of these sizes to, for example, add disks or interfaces. Azure presents multiple size options for multiple size types.

  Azure sizes that support and expose hyperthreading to the user includes the version 2, F series.

  For higher performance and capacity on media interfaces, use the Azure CLI to create a network interface with accelerated networking. You can also use the Azure GUI to enable accelerated networking.

Platform Hyperthreading Support

Of the supported hypervisors, only VMware does not expose SMT capability to the ESBC. Of the supported clouds, OCI, AWS, and, for their FS-v2 sized, Azure enable SMT by default and expose it to the ESBC.

DPDK Reference

The ESBC relies on DPDK for packet processing and related functions. You may reference the Tested Platforms section of the DPDK release notes available at https://doc.dpdk.org. This information can be used in conjunction with this Release Notes document for you to set a baseline of:

• CPU
• Host OS and version
• NIC driver and version
• NIC firmware version