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Planning Guide

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1. NSP product overview

The Network Services Platform

NSP system architecture

Core NSP technologies

NSP deployment

Including the NFM-P in an NSP deployment

2. NSP system requirements

NSP container environment requirements

NSP cluster requirements

NFM-P Hardware platform requirements

Hardware platform and resource requirements using virtualization

NFM-P minimum platform requirements

NFM-P platform requirements for larger networks

NFM-P storage

3. Operating system specifications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

NFM-P on Microsoft Windows

NFM-P on Apple macOS

NFM-P operating system summary

Third party software for NFM-P single-user client or client delegate server

4. Network requirements

NSP network requirements

NSP deployment network addressing requirements

Network requirements between NSP and other components

Network requirements for NSP redundancy and communications within a NSP cluster

NSP Support for RHEL IP Bonding

NFM-P network requirements

Network elements

NFM-P bandwidth requirements

Contributors to bandwidth requirements

Network bandwidth

Network latency

Network reliability

Network element specific requirements

Mechanism to maintain current state of network elements

5. Scaling and performance

NSP scaling and performance

Scale limits for NSP deployments

Scale limits for functions

Failover performance for HA and redundant deployments

NFM-P Scalability guidelines

Scaling guidelines for NFM-P XML API clients

Scaling guidelines for statistics collection

Scaling guidelines for service assurance tests

cflowd statistics collection

CPAM and vCPAA

6. Security

Introduction

Securing the NSP

Operating system security for NSP stations

Communication between the NSP and external systems

NSP Port Communications

NSP Kubernetes Platform Communications

Securing the NFM-P

NFM-P port information

FTP

NFM-P firewall and NAT rules

7. NSP deployment with multiple network interfaces and IP addresses

Support for multiple network interfaces

NSP Network Address Translation

NFM-P multihoming

NFM-P Network Address Translation

Use of hostnames for the NFM-P client

8. Appendix A

Storage-layer I/O performance tests