BW PlatformDimensioningGuide
BW PlatformDimensioningGuide
BW PlatformDimensioningGuide
2 Edited changes and published document. July 29, 2015 Joan Renaud
3 Added support for virtualized and/or hyper- March 8, 2016 Laura Griffith
threaded Media and Video Servers.
Clarified minimum requirements for video.
Increased minimum server memory requirements
in preparation for future releases.
3 Updated section 3.3 Cisco BroadWorks Server March 21, 2016 Laura Griffith
Maximum Resource Limits.
3 Updated section 3.1 Cisco BroadWorks Server March 24, 2016 Laura Griffith
Minimum Resource Requirements.
3 Edited changes and published document. March 28, 2016 Joan Renaud
4 Edited changes and published document. June 10, 2016 Joan Renaud
5 Add support for 2600 v4 CPU family. December 23, 2016 Laura Griffith
Added support for additional Network Function
Manager (NFM) functionality.
Added the Network Database Server (NDS).
Increased Messaging Server (UMS) requirements
for Release 22.0.
6 Updated document for Release 22.0 Messaging May 19, 2017 Laura Griffith
Server (UMS)/NDS.
Fixed error in Media Server (MS)/Video Server
(UVS) hyperthreading parameter.
Clarified CPU family support.
6 Edited changes and published document. May 26, 2017 Joan Renaud
7 Increased minimum NFM disk size. April 23, 2018 Laura Griffith
Added reference to Cisco hardware.
8 Removed disk service time requirements and Intel June 29, 2018 Laura Griffith
processor family requirements.
9 Edited changes and published document. December 17, 2018 Joan Renaud
10 Edited changes and published document. April 22, 2019 Patricia Renaud
11 Added Enhanced Call Logs (ECL) Network May 29, 2020 Laura Griffith
Database Server (NDS).
Increased Network Function Manager (NFM)
footprint.
Removed Device Activation Server.
Updated document to indicate that Media Server
(MS)/Video Server (UVS) hyper-threading is
enabled by default.
12 Added Application Delivery Platform and Database August 18, 2020 Laura Griffith
Troubleshooting Server.
13 Increased NFM maximum footprint and DBS March 2, 2021 Laura Griffith
minimum footprint requirement for Oracle 11G.
13 Edited changes and published document. March 24, 2021 Jessica Boyle
14 Removed 64GB memory restriction for virtualized January 20, 2023 Laura Griffith
nodes.
Update UCS models.
This document describes the required hardware resources for each Cisco BroadWorks
server.
Cisco supports Intel-based Xeon family processors running Linux. The Xeon processor
family fits well with the Cisco BroadWorks application, and as such, is the preferred CPU
type for Cisco BroadWorks.
Servers can be installed as bare metal or virtualized. For details on a virtualized
configuration, see the Cisco BroadWorks Virtualization Configuration Guide [2].
Cisco BroadWorks is hardware agnostic. Any vendor hardware can be used as long as it
meets the criteria detailed in this document. However, Cisco does recommend the
following Cisco hardware:
n Cisco UCS C220 M4 or greater
n Cisco UCS C240 M4 or greater
n Cisco UCS B200 M4 or greater
NOTE 1: Cisco BroadWorks Database Server does not support NAS deployments using
Network File System (NFS) as the Cisco BroadWorks “wrappered” Oracle installation uses
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), which is incompatible with NFS. The Database
Server requires block storage devices.
This section outlines the Cisco BroadWorks server resource requirements. The intent of
this section is to provide the information required to build a Cisco BroadWorks system that
meets the customer’s needs.
The following sections define the minimum and maximum resource footprint for the
various Cisco BroadWorks servers.
NOTE 1: Media Server and Video Server virtual deployments have limited capacity. For more
information, see the Cisco BroadWorks Virtualization Configuration Guide [2].
NOTE 2: The minimum Database Server deployment requires one mounted partition (minimum
of 100 GB) for the OS and software and two unmounted partitions (minimum of 50 GB each) to
be used for the Oracle DATA and FRA ASM disk groups that are created as part of the
Database Server installation. These three partitions can be on three independent physical disks
or on a single physical disk sliced to resemble three devices.
NOTE 3: A minimum of 8 CPUs are required for video conferencing and transcoding.
NOTE 4: The Video Server is a pure software-based solution supported on Linux (specifically
RHEL 6, CentOS 6, and OEL 6) on Intel Xeon series-based servers. For maximum capacity and
performance, a video-centric Video Server should be deployed on servers with dual Intel Xeon
E5-2690 v2 @ 3.0 GHz, with hyper-threading disabled. The E5-2690 v2 @ 3.0 GHz provides
the much needed high clock speed to handle the processing. The v3 processor with lower CPU
speeds can also be used but any processor speed limiting for power saving must be disabled.
NOTE 5: A smaller Network Function Manager (NFM) with 4 CPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 36 GB disk
can be used for License Management only.
NOTE 6: The Database Troubleshooting Server requires enough memory to hold the database
of the largest Application Server (AS) database (permanent plus temporary size). Typically, this
would be approximately half the amount of memory.
NOTE 1: Disk maximum represents the recommended storage requirements for / partition or / +
/bw partitions on “large” production servers. More disk storage, IOPS, and throughput can be
provided if needed. The Cisco BroadWorks Capacity Planner tool [1] provides the minimum
server disk requirement based on the call/service model and server capabilities.
NOTE 6: For a large deployment, the Network Database Server should have a separately
mounted persistent partition.
[1] Cisco Systems, Inc. 2021. Cisco BroadWorks System Capacity Planner. Available
from Cisco at cisco.com.
[2] Cisco Systems, Inc. 2020. Cisco BroadWorks Virtualization Configuration Guide.
Available from Cisco at cisco.com.
[3] Cisco Systems, Inc. 2020. Cisco BroadWorks Software Management Guide.
Available from Cisco at cisco.com.