Hardware and Server Requirements
The following tables list the minimum and total memory and disk requirements per x86 server or per virtual machine for installing Contrail Networking.
Hardware Requirements for Contrail Networking Release 2011
The following tables list the minimum and total memory and disk requirements for installing Contrail Networking Release 2011.
- Baseline Server Requirement for an All-In-One Setup
- Contrail Controller for Object Scale (Number of VLANs)
- Baseline Server Requirement for a HA Setup
- Contrail Insights Scale
Baseline Server Requirement for an All-In-One Setup
Baseline for 32 switches.
| Role | vCPUs (hyper threaded) | Memory (GB) | Disk (GB) | Networking |
Contrail Command |
4 |
32 |
100 |
1 Ethernet port |
Control Host |
20 |
48 |
350 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights + Flow Node |
10 |
50 |
300 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Controller for Object Scale (Number of VLANs)
Baseline for 256 switches.
| Number of Devices | Number of VMIs (2500 VPGs each with 102 VLANs) | vCPUs (hyper threaded) | RAM (GB) | Disk (GB) |
256 |
256K |
38 |
135 |
350 |
Baseline Server Requirement for a HA Setup
| Role | vCPUs (hyper threaded)/ Node | Memory (GB)/ Node | Disk (GB)/ Node | Networking |
Contrail Command |
4 |
32 |
100 |
1 Ethernet port |
Control Host (x3) |
20 |
48 |
350 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights + Flow Node (x3) Note: Number of sampled flows: 500K |
10 |
50 |
300 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights Scale
| Number of Contrail Insight Nodes | Number of VMs | Number of Compute Nodes | vCPUs | RAM (GB) | Disk (TB) |
3 |
10K |
300 |
64 |
64 |
2 |
5 |
100K |
1000 |
64 |
128 |
4 |
Hardware Requirements for Contrail Networking Release 2008
The following tables list the minimum and total memory and disk requirements for installing Contrail Networking Release 2008.
- Baseline Server Requirement for an All-In-One Setup
- Contrail Controller for Object Scale (Number of VLANs)
- Baseline Server Requirement for a HA Setup
- Contrail Insights Scale
Baseline Server Requirement for an All-In-One Setup
Baseline for 32 switches.
| Role | vCPUs (hyper threaded) | Memory (GB) | Disk (GB) | Networking |
Contrail Command |
4 |
32 |
100 |
1 Ethernet port |
Control Host |
20 |
48 |
350 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights + Flow Node |
10 |
50 |
300 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Controller for Object Scale (Number of VLANs)
Baseline for 128 switches.
| Number of Devices | Number of VMIs (2500 VPGs each with 102 VLANs) | vCPUs (hyper threaded) | RAM (GB) | Disk (GB) |
128 |
256K |
35 |
133 |
350 |
Baseline Server Requirement for a HA Setup
| Role | vCPUs (hyper threaded)/ Node | Memory (GB)/ Node | Disk (GB)/ Node | Networking |
Contrail Command |
4 |
32 |
100 |
1 Ethernet port |
Control Host (x3) |
20 |
48 |
350 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights + Flow Node (x3) Note: Number of sampled flows: 500K |
10 |
50 |
300 |
2 Ethernet ports |
Contrail Insights Scale
| Number of Contrail Insight Nodes | Number of VMs | Number of Compute Nodes | vCPUs | RAM (GB) | Disk (TB) |
3 |
10K |
300 |
64 |
64 |
2 |
5 |
100K |
1000 |
64 |
128 |
4 |