Virtual hardware configuration

Overview

The vCPAA mimics an SR-12 chassis equipped with:

• One SFM3-12 installed in slot A

• No SFM installed in slot B

• One IOM installed in slot 1 (iom-ra1)

• One 4-port GE SFP MDA installed in slot 1/1 (m4-1gb-tx)

• One CF3 disk (additional CF devices can be added)

Each vCPAA should be configured as follows, where KVM or VMware is configured as the hypervisor:

Table 3-2: Virtual machine configuration

Parameter	Supported	Recommended
Memory	4GB+	4GB+
Virtual CPUs - mode	Custom	Custom
Virtual CPUs - number	1 with dual core	1 with dual core
Virtual CPUs - pinning	Required	Required
Virtual disks - number	1	1
Virtual disks - type	KVM: QCOW2 image file VMware: OVF image file	KMV: QCOW2 image file VMware: OVF image file
Virtual disks - driver	KVM: virtIO VMware: vmhba	KMV: virtIO VMware: vmhba
Virtual NIC - interfaces	1-5	1-5
Virtual NIC - type	KVM: bridge or direct VMware: vSwitch, bridge, or direct	KVM: bridge or direct VMware: vSwitch
Virtual NIC - model	KVM: virtIO VMware: vmnic	KVM: virtIO VMware: vmnic
Console serial port	KVM: physical serial port, or bind to available host TCP port VMware: bind to available host TCP port	Bind to available host TCP port

Note: Nokia recommends providing 1 GB of HDD space for each virtual machine, in addition to any HDD space required to run the host OS or hypervisor.

The vCPAA must be shutdown before performing certain tasks on the host, such as increasing or decreasing the amount of virtual CPUs, changing CPU pinning information, increasing or decreasing the VM memory, adding or removing a disk, or adding or removing network interfaces.

The setup process for vCPAA on VMware is user-specific, and may vary depending on your system configuration. For issues that are not resolved by existing resources, contact your Nokia representative for assistance.

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