Service Engine VM requirements

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 in the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Configuration Guide.