Virtualized Deployment Requirements

VMWare vSphere ESXi 5.1 and 6 is supported and certified. vCenter is not a mandatory requirement.

Please refer to the Platforms section of the Rhino Compatibility Guide for supported operating systems.

Hyper-threading is supported and used to maximize performance throughput.

Sentinel VoLTE does make use of Uncontended RAM.

Sentinel VoLTE does not require Uncontended disk I/O.

Sentinel VoLTE does not require dedicated storage. CDR files and Rhino logs should be partitioned separately and managed to avoid failure or data loss due to space utilization.

CPU Contention is supported, however %ready numbers should be kept below 5% to avoid significant impact on overall application performance. It is strongly recommended that VMs are bound to physical CPU sockets to ensure predictable latency.

A rhino cluster provides support for both high availability and fault tolerance internally. Sentinel VoLTE does not make use of the Rhino replication but does use the high availability systems. The cluster as a whole can tolerate failure of individual nodes with no support from the virtual machine. Live replication of virtual machines (FT Model) will interfere with Rhino’s internal clustering mechanisms.

Sentinel VoLTE does not support VMWare Fault Tolerance.

Sentinel VoLTE provides is own HA clustering based upon the Rhino SLEE Architecture.

Sentinel VoLTE does not support App High Availability.

VMWare vMotion is not supported

Sentinel VoLTE supports Data Protection with the exception of RAM.

Sentinel VoLTE supports Stretched Clustering.

Sentinel VoLTE does not support Suspend/Resume.

Sentinel VoLTE does not support Snapshots.

Sentinel VoLTE does not support Cloning.

Sentinel VoLTE supports all power management.

Sentinel VoLTE does not require clock synchronization.

Sentinel VoLTE does not require SR-IOV.

1 vCPU, 8Gb RAM, 30Gb HD, 0 IOPS (Disk I/O is not normally a significant requirement as it’s not used except for logging and installation/configuration changes. Under normal operation a rhino node produces very little logging, but can use > 100Mb/s during severe error conditions under load).

1 Rhino node per VM, 1 CPU (bound) @2.4+Ghz, 12Gb java heap, 30Gb HD, 0 IOPS. A quorum node is much lighter weight, and would require a vm with 1 vcpu, 512Mb ram, 0 IOPS.

1.08M BHCA, + 10.8K Conference attempts.

Linear to 2.4Ghz, No scaling improvement over 2.4Ghz. (At Maximum load @ 2.4GHz, we reach saturation of Java CMS collector).

Sentinel VoLTE does not support host resource changes while running.

VoLTE Sentinel requires 1 network interface for each mgmt/signalling interface.

Sentinel VoLTE requires 500kbps/BHCA.

Sentinel VoLTE adds 20ms at 50th percentile.