VMware recommends installation of the Orchestrator and Gateway applications as a virtual machine (i.e. guest instance) on an existing hypervisor.

The SD-WAN Orchestrator requires the following minimal guest instance specifications:

  • 8 Intel vCPU's at 2.5 Ghz or higher
  • 16 GB of memory
    Note: The SD-WAN Orchestrator will not start with less than 10GB of memory.
  • 2x 1TB 1 x 512GB SSD based persistent volumes (expandable through LVM if needed)
    • Required Minimum IOPS: 5,000 IOPS
  • 1 Gbps NIC
  • Ubuntu x64 server VM compatibility
  • Single public IP address (Can be made available through NAT)