Virtual Machine Formats for Graphiant Service

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VMware ESXi 

  • Version:  Must support VMware ESXi 6.5 and higher

  • The Graphiant service has VMware tools (or open-vm-tools) packaged in order to support VMXNET3.

VirtIO Support

  • Must support VirtIO.  This becomes necessary when running on certain flavors of KVM.

SR-IOV Support

  • Must support SR-IOV.  This will be particularly important for high performance environments especially when targeting deployment of Graphiant solution on Cisco CSP and Cisco ENCS platforms.

OVF/OVA

  • The Graphiant image must be made available in the open standard format

OVF Template

  • The Graphiant service image is accompanied with a template that provides guidance on small/medium/large instance deployments tied to specific CPU & Memory requirements along with Disk.

Default Interface Count

The image is deployed with a set of default interfaces:

  • One in a WAN VRF

  • One in the management VRF

  • One in a LAN VRF

Note:

An upper bound of 8 interfaces is supported by default.