Minimum Hardware Requirements - Bare Metal

The minimum hardware requirements for deploying the SMI Cluster Manager on Bare Metal are:

Minimum Hardware Requirements - Bare Metal
Deployment Model Nodes Server Type Networking

NIC

Cores Per Socket
Linux K8s CEE
All-in-One (AIO) All Nodes

Cisco UCS C220 M5/M6

Cisco Catalyst 3850 and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Cisco UCS C220 M5/M6:

  • Intel Network Adapter XL710

  • Intel Network Adapter X710

  • Intel Ethernet Controller XXV710

  • NVIDIA ConnectX-5|

  • Intel X520

  • Intel Ethernet Controller 82599ES

  • Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E810

2 cores 2 cores 4 cores
Note

You must install a RAID Controller for example, Cisco 12 Gbps modular RAID controller with 2 GB cache module on the UCS server for the cluster sync operation to function properly. Also, for the RAID 1 requirement, install a minimum of 2 drives, which must be SSDs to improve the read/write access speed.