The following are the Service Engine VM requirements:

Requirement

Description

RAM

Add 1 GB of RAM to the SE configuration for each additional vCPU

CPU socket affinity

Select this option for SEs within their group to allocate vCPU core to the same CPU socket as that of the multi-socket CPU

Dedicated dispatcher CPU

Select this option for SEs within their group to dedicate a single CPU thread to dispatch data flows to other vCPU threads. This is relevant for SEs with three or more CPUs.

Disk

Set the disk value to a minimum of (2*RAM_size) + 5 GB to ensure 10GB.

For more details on the Service Engine VM requirements, see topic Service Engine Group topic in the Configuration guide.