Describes the special considerations for VeloCloud Virtual Edge deployment.
- The VeloCloud Edge is a latency-sensitive application. Refer to the VMware documentation to adjust the Virtual Machine (VM) as a latency-sensitive application.
- Recommended Host settings:
- BIOS settings to achieve highest performance:
- CPUs at 2.0 GHz or higher
- Enable Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)
- Disable hyperthreading
- Virtual Edge supports paravirtualized vNIC VMXNET 3 and passthrough vNIC SR-IOV:
- When using VMXNET3, disable SR-IOV on host BIOS and ESXi
- When using SR-IOV, enable SR-IOV on host BIOS and ESXi
- To enable SR-IOV on VMware and KVM, see:
- KVM - Enable SR-IOV on KVM
- VMware - Enable SR-IOV on VMware
- Disable power savings on CPU BIOS for maximum performance
- Enable CPU turbo
- Enable AES-NI, SSE3, SSE4, and RDTSC instruction sets
- Recommend reserving 2 cores for Hypervisor workloads
For example, for a 10-core CPU system, recommend running one 8-core virtual edge or two 4-core virtual edge and reserve 2 cores for Hypervisor processes.
- For a dual socket host system, make sure the hypervisor is assigning network adapters, memory and CPU resources that are within the same socket (NUMA) boundary as the vCPUs assigned.
- BIOS settings to achieve highest performance:
- Recommended VM settings:
- 2, 4, or 8 CPUs (dedicated)
- 4 GB RAM for a 2 Core VM, 8 GB RAM for a 4 or 8 Core VM
- Memory should be set to ‘100% reserved’
- The default username for the VCE ssh console:
root