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Edge Router VM Sizing Guide

Introduction

Sizing your Edge Router virtual machines (VM) correctly is essential for getting the required throughput from the Edge Router. Administrators should utilize these recommendations for allocation of CPU, RAM, and Disk Storage to allocate to Virtual Machine Instances running the Edge Router on the VM stack of your choice. The suggested bandwidth considers full duplex throughput.

Choose from the following VM stacks:

Cloud instances should have compute optimized these instances need dedicated compute, not burst compute for AWS that means the C-Series and for Azure equivalent would be the F-Series.

vCPE (generic type)

Use this information when launching a Edge Router VM on your own equipment.

Reference CPU - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz

  Target performance VM specification  Supported interface configurations *
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-200 Mbps Throughput
  • CPU Cores: 4
  • Memory RAM: 4 GBytes
  • Disk Storage: 30 GBytes 
  • 1 LAN + 1 WAN interfaces
  • 1 LAN + 2 WAN interfaces¹
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput
  • CPU Cores: 8
  • Memory RAM: 6 GBytes
  • Disk Storage: 50 GBytes
  • 1 LAN + 1 WAN interfaces
  • 1 LAN + 2 WAN interfaces¹
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput
  • CPU Cores: 10
  • Memory RAM: 8 GBytes
  • Disk Storage: 100 GBytes
  • 1 LAN + 1 WAN interfaces
  • 1 LAN + 2 WAN interfaces¹

* NetFoundry recommends a 1:1 physical to logical association for network interfaces.

AWS Cloud

 

Target performance

Instance name

 Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput
 c5.large Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput
 c5.xlarge Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

c5.2xlarge

 Single LAN/WAN interface

Azure Cloud

 

Target performance

Instance name

 Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput
 Standard_F2s_v2 Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput
 Standard_F4s_v2 Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

Standard_F8s_v2

 Single LAN/WAN interface

Oracle Cloud

  Target performance Instance name  Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput

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VM.Standard.E3.Flex

1 Core OCPU / 4 GB Memory

 

 Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput

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VM.Standard.E3.Flex

2 Core OCPU / 8 GB Memory

 Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

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VM.Standard.E3.Flex

8 Core OCPU / 64 GB Memory

 Single LAN/WAN interface

AliCloud

 

Target performance

Instance name

 Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput

ecs.c6e.large or ecs.sn1ne.large

 Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput

ecs.c6e.xlarge or ecs.sn1ne.xlarge

 Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

ecs.c6e.2xlarge or ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge

 Single LAN/WAN interface

GCP Cloud

 

Target performance

Instance name

 Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput

e2-standard-2

 Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput

e2-standard-4

 Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

e2-standard-8

 Single LAN/WAN interface

IBM Cloud

 

Target performance

Instance name

 Supported interface configurations
LOW-MED
  • 100 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 100-300 Mbps Throughput
 cx2-2x4 Single LAN/WAN interface
MED
  • 500 Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500 Mbps Throughput
 cx2-4x8 Single LAN/WAN interface
HIGH
  • 1000+ Simultaneous Data Sessions
  • 500+ Mbps Throughput

cx2-8x16

 Single LAN/WAN interface

 

 

NOTE:

1. For multiple interfaces (non-link-listener) setup, user needs to setup dynamic routes on the host. The Ziti will use the host routing information to send traffic.  With the carefully route setup, user can achieve the load balance on multiple WAN interfaces. 

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