Minimum Compute Requirements

In OpenStack, flavors set the vCPU, memory, and storage requirements for an image. Gigamon recommends that you create a flavor on your choice that matches or exceeds the minimum recommended requirements listed in the following table.

Compute Instances

vCPU

Memory

Disk Space

Description

UCT-V

2 vCPU

4GB

N/A

Available as rpm or Debian package.

Instances can have a single vNIC or dual vNICs configured for monitoring the traffic.

UCT-V Controller

1 vCPU

4GB

8GB

Based on the number of agents being monitored, multiple controllers will be required to scale out horizontally.

GigaVUE V Series Node

2 vCPU

3.75GB

20GB

NIC 1: Monitored Network IP; Can be used as Tunnel IP

NIC 2: Tunnel IP (optional)

NIC 3: Management IP

GigaVUE V Series Proxy

1 vCPU

4GB

8GB

Based on the number of GigaVUE V Series nodes being monitored, multiple controllers will be required to scale out horizontally.

GigaVUE‑FM

4 vCPU

8GB

40GB

GigaVUE‑FM must be able to access the controller instance for relaying the commands. Use a flavor with a root disk of minimum 40GB and an ephemeral disk of minimum 41GB.

The instance size of the GigaVUE V Series Node is configured and packaged as part of the qcow2 image file.