1. Installation Guide
  2. Installing and Configuring DPDK for Session Monitor
  3. System Requirements

System Requirements

The following sections describe the hardware and software requirements for installing and configuring DPDK for Session Monitor.

Note:

The software and hardware details mentioned in this section are minimum requirements to enable DPDK for capturing high volume of network traffic. Contact Oracle Support for more assistance.

Hardware Requirements

This section describes the hardware requirements for installing and configuring DPDK.

Minimal Requirements

Following are the list of minimum hardware requirements:

  • Probe machine (with DPDK) (2 Intel processors, each with 8 cores, 8 GB RAM, Intel based network card)
  • Mediation Engine and Probe in one machine (at least 2 Intel processors and 24 cores in total, 24 GB RAM, Intel based network card)

Supported Servers

For supported servers, see the Session Monitor System Requirements section.

Supported Networking Cards

The following networking cards are supported:

  • Sun Dual Port 10 GbE PCle 2.0 Networking Card with Intel 82599 10 GbE Controller
  • Sun Quad Port GbE PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapter, UTP
  • Sun Dual Port GbE PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapter, MMF
  • Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN network interface card, 100GbE dual-port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracket

Software Requirements

Supported DPDK versions for Session Monitor

The following table lists the supported versions of DPDK.

Table 6-1 Table 5-1 Supported Versions DPDK for Session Monitor

DPDK Version Session Monitor Release
21.11.2 Supported from Release 5.1.0.0.0
21.11.3 Supported from Release 5.2.0.0.0
23.11.2 Supported from Release 6.0.0.0.0