cloudSwXtch System Requirements
- A cloudSwXtch must be a minimum of 4 cores and 16 GB memory.
- A cloudSwXtch instances must have 2 NICs.
- Note: Both NICs can share a single subnet for control and data plane communications. This is the preferred method.
- The size of each subnet should include at least 32 addresses.
- Supported Cloud Environments:
- Amazon’s AWS
- Microsoft’s Azure
- Google’s GCP
- Oracle’s OCI
cloudSwXtch Bridge System Requirements
- A cloudSwXtch instance must be running in any cloud BEFORE deploying a Bridge.
- Network connectivity from on-premises to the Virtual Network hosting the cloudSwXtch instance.
- A cloudSwXtch Bridge requires 2 NICs with the non-primary NIC as a Mellanox card.
- The Bridge host machine needs to be running Ubuntu 20.04 with Kernel 5.15 or greater OR RHEL8/CentOS8 with Kernel 5.11 or greater.
- Minimum of 4 cores, 8GB RAM.
- Hard Drive: Minimum 20GB, Recommended: 40GB
- The Bridge host machine must be able to receive and/or send multicast traffic from the local network and send UDP packets to the cloud’s Virtual Network using a VPN or Express Route.
xNIC End-Point OS Requirements
Available Operating Systems
| Linux | Windows |
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•AlmaLinux 8.8 - Minimum Kernel Version 4.18 •Amazon Linux 2023 - Min. Kernel Version 5.14 •Centos 8 Minimum - Min. Kernel Version 4.18 •Oracle Linux 8 - Minimum Kernel Version 4.18 •RHEL 8.8 - Minimum Kernel Version 4.18 •RHEL 9.2 - Minimum Kernel Version 5.14 •Rocky Linux 8 - Minimum Kernel Version 4.18 •Rocky Linux 9 - Minimum Kernel Version 5.14 •Ubuntu 20.04 - Minimum Kernel Version 5.5 •Ubuntu 22.04 - Minimum Kernel Version 6.2 |
•Windows Server 2022 •Windows Server 2019 •Windows 11 Pro/Enterprise •Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise |
CPU Architecture
x86_x84
Network Connectivity
1 NIC or 2 NICs for higher performance