Requirements for Machines on Private Virtual Infrastructures

In private virtual infrastructures, you choose the compute resources required by your deployment. This includes CPU core, memory, disk size, and network interfaces. Deployment details, such as the use of distributed DoS protection, dictate resource utilization beyond the defaults.

Default vSBC Resources

The default compute for the SBC image files is as follows:

4 vCPU Cores
8 GB RAM
20 GB hard disk (pre-formatted)
8 interfaces as follows:
- 1 for management (wancom0 )
- 2 for HA (wancom1 and 2)
- 1 spare
- 4 for media

Interface Host Mode for Private Virtual Infrastructures

The SBC VNF supports interface architectures using Hardware Virtualization Mode - Paravirtualized (HVM-PV):

ESXi - No manual configuration required.
KVM - HVM mode is enabled by default. Specifying PV as the interface type results in HVM plus PV.

Supported Interface Input-Output Modes for Private Virtual Infrastructures

Para-virtualized
SR-IOV
PCI Passthrough
Emulated - Emulated is supported for management interfaces only.

Supported Ethernet Controller, Driver, and Traffic Type based on Input-Output Modes

The following table lists supported Ethernet Controllers (chipset families) and their supported driver that Oracle supports for Virtual Machine deployments. Reference the host hardware specifications, where you run your hypervisor, to learn the Ethernet controller in use. The second table provides parallel information for virtual interface support. Refer to the separate platform benchmark report for example system-as-qualified performance data.

Note:

Virtual SBCs do not support media interfaces when media interfaces of different NIC models are attached. Media Interfaces are supported only when all media interfaces are of the same model, belong to the same Ethernet Controller, and have the same PCI Vendor ID and Device ID.

For KVM and VMware, accelerated media/signaling using SR-IOV and PCI-pt modes are supported for the following card types.

Ethernet Controller	Driver	SR-IOV	PCI Passthrough
Intel 82599 / X520 / X540	ixgbe	M	M
Intel i210 / i350	igb	M	M
Intel X710 / XL710 / XXV710	i40e, i40en^Foot 1, iavf^Foot 2	M	M
Mellanox Connect X-4	mlx5	M	M
Mellanox Connect X-5^Foot 3	mlx5 ^Foot 4	M	NA

^Footnote 1This driver is supported on VMware only.

^Footnote 2iavf driver is support in SR-IOV n/w mode

^Footnote 3KVM only

^Footnote 4

Device Part number: 7603662 Oracle Dual Port 25 Gb Ethernet Adapter, Mellanox (for factory installation)

Validated with 10G Speed using SFP- Fibre cables with 7604269 Oracle 10/25 GbE Dual Rate SFP28 Short Range (SR) Transceiver is used during validation.

Note:

Although the OCI VM.Optimized3.Flex shapes provide three launch options to select networking modes, always select Option 3, Hardware-assisted (SR-IOV), for the SBC.

For PV mode (default, all supported hypervisors), the following virtual network interface types are supported. You can use any make or model NIC card on the host as long as the hypervisor presents it to the VM as one of these vNIC types.

Virtual Network Interface	Driver	W/M
Emulated	e1000	W
KVM (PV)	virtio	W/M
VMware (PV)	VMXNET3	W/M
KVM (PV)	virtio	W/M
KVM (PV)	mlx5	W

Emulated NICs do not provide sufficient bandwidth/QoS, and are suitable for use as management only.

W - wancom (management) interface
M - media interface

Note:

Accelerated media/signaling using SR-IOV (VF) or PCI-pt (DDA) modes are not currently supported for Hyper-V when running on Private Virtual Infrastructures.

CPU Core Resources for Private Virtual Infrastructures

Virtual SBCs for this release requires an Intel Core i7 processor or higher, or a fully emulated equivalent including 64-bit SSSE3 and SSE4.2 support.

If the hypervisor uses CPU emulation (for example, qemu), Oracle recommends that you set the deployment to pass the full set of host CPU features to the VM.