SMI VM Quantities and Sizing

Table 1 and Table 2 provide SMI VM quantity and sizing recommendations.

NOTE: Individual NFs are deployed as K8s workers through SMI. They each have their own VM recommendations. Refer to the NF documentation for details.

SMI VM Function and Quantities
VM Purpose Redundancy # VMs
SMI Cluster Manager NA 1
K8s Control Plane 3 3
K8s Etcd 3 3
OAM 3 3
SMI VM Sizing Recommendations
VM Function vCPUs NUMA per VM (Single/Double) CPU Pinned RAM (GB) Boot Volume Size (GB) Data Volume Size (GB)
SMI Cluster Manager 2 1 Yes 16 40 100
K8s Control Plane 2 1 Yes 16 100 20
K8s Etcd (CDL) 2 1 Yes 16 100 20
OAM 12 1 Yes 112 100 200