If you are deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance in the Non-High Availability (HA) mode, ensure that your system meets the following requirements for the 2.5 K footprint.

The 2.5 K footprint is for non-production deployment without HA capabilities and cannot be incrementally scaled.

Table 1. 2.5 K Footprint for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management Cluster
Number of VMs vCPU Per VM RAM Per VM (GBs) Role
1 2 8 Control Plane Node
1 2 8 Worker Node
Note: The table shows the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster sizing for deployments when a dedicated VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster is used for the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance. To size deployments when multiple workload clusters are managed by a single management cluster, see VMware TKG Documentation.
Table 2. 2.5 K Footprint for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Workload Cluster
Number of VMs vCPU Per VM RAM Per VM (GBs) Local Disk Per VM (GBs) Total Persistent Volume Storage (TBs) for 1W Retention Interval Role
1 2 8 50 NA Control Plane Node
5 16 32 200 2 Worker Node
Note: For VMware Tanzu Kubernetes management and workload cluster, it is recommended to enable vSphere HA for VMWare cluster.
Table 3. 2.5 K Footprint for AKS Workload Cluster
Number of VMs vCPU Per VM RAM Per VM (GBs) Local Disk Per VM (GBs) Total Persistent Volume Storage (TBs) for 1W Retention Interval
5 16 32 200 2
Note: By default in AKS, first three worker nodes can also be the control plane nodes.

For 2.5 K footprint, the recommended AKS VM size template is Standard_F16s_v2.

Raw Metric Retention Interval

The following table provides total persistent volume storage in Terra Bytes (TBs) required for a 2.5 K footprint with raw metric based on the retention period, which varies from 1 week through 7 weeks.
Note: The default raw metrics retention interval is 1w and is configurable. If you decide to change the retention interval period, the persistent volume storage must change accordingly.
Footprint Raw Metric Retention Interval in Weeks
PV Storage (TBs) for 1W PV Storage (TBs) for 2W PV Storage (TBs) for 3W PV Storage (TBs) for 4W PV Storage (TBs) for 5W PV Storage (TBs) for 6W PV Storage (TBs) for 7W
2.5 K 2 2 2 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6

For example, if the raw metrics for the retention period is 4 weeks, make sure that 2.6 TB persistent volume storage is provisioned. During the deployment time, specify the retention period as 4 weeks.

Performance and Scalibility

The following table provides sample managed capacity for 2.5 K footprint.
Footprint Extra Small (Non-HA) 2.5 K
Number of devices 2.5 K
Number of unique events or notifications per day 2.5 K
Number of metrics per five minutes 1 million
Number of routers or switches 1500
Managed P and I 30 K
Number of hosts 200
Number of VMs 500
Number of CNFs 50
Number of pods 50
Total number of events=number of devices*4+external events 15 K
Number of raw metrics from Domain Manager metric collector per five minutes polling interval 750 K
Number of Cisco ACI control cluster supported 1
Number of IPSLA routers discovered per collector 10
Number of Analytics jobs supported 5
Number of Alarming jobs supported 5
Total number of alerts supported per minute 50
Kafka to Kafka Collector metrics per five minutes polling interval 250 K
Total number of concurrent APIs 100
Number of concurrent users 10
Total number of users 100
Maximum number of events from VMware vROps to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance per five minutes polling interval 1000
Number of notifications processed per second 300
Data synchronization of Topology in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI 3 minutes
Number of metrics that can be exported to external Kafka per five minutes polling interval 1 million
Bandwidth utilization for storage traffic 3.5 Mbps
Total Disk IOPS (Read + Write) 100
Footprint Extra Small (Non-HA) 2.5 K
Native traffic flow metrics 1 K
Note: For native traffic flow, scale support mentioned in the table considers that no other source of metric data is flowing to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance. If other source of metric data is flowing into VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance, then reduce the ratio of traffic flow data.