Minimal Laptop/PC Desktop system requirements

 

Prerequisites:

 

CPU: Intel CPU supporting Intel® VT-x /EPT virtualization Operating System: Windows 7, 8, 10 or Linux Desktop VMware Workstation 12.5 or later

VMware Player 12.5 or later

 

 

PC/Laptop HW requirements

CPU

Intel i5/i7 (4 Logical processors), Enabled Intel virtualization in BIOS

RAM

8Gb

HDD Space

40Gb

Network

LAN/WLAN

PNETLab Virtual machine requirements

CPU

4/1 (Number of processors/Number of cores per processor) Enabled Intel VT-x/EPT virtualization engine

RAM

6Gb or more

HDD

40Gb or more

Network

VMware NAT or Bridged network adapter

 

Note: Minimal PC Desktop/Laptop will be able to run small Labs. The performance and quantity of nodes per lab depend on the types of nodes deployed in the lab.

 

Example:

IOL image-based nodes: up to 40-50 nodes per lab Dynamips image-based nodes: up to 20-25 nodes per lab vIOS image-based nodes: up to 8-10 nodes per lab CSRv1000 or XRv image-based nodes: up to 2-3 per lab

 

Recommended Laptop/PC Desktop system requirements

 

Prerequisites:

 

CPU: Intel CPU supporting Intel® VT-x /EPT virtualization Operation System: Windows 7, 8, 10 or Linux Desktop VMware Workstation 12.5 or later

VW Ware Player 12.5 or later

 

PC/Laptop HW requirements

CPU

Intel i7 (8 Logical processors), Enabled Intel virtualization in

BIOS

RAM

32Gb

HDD Space

200Gb

Network

LAN/WLAN

PNETLab Virtual machine requirements

CPU

8/1 (Number of processors/Number of cores per processor) Enabled Intel VT-x/EPT virtualization engine

RAM

24Gb or more

HDD

200Gb or more

Network

VMware NAT or Bridged network adapter

 

Note: PC Desktops/Laptops will be able to run small to medium Labs. Performance and quantity of nodes per lab depend on the type of nodes deployed in the lab.

 

Example:

IOL image-based nodes: up to 120 nodes per lab vIOS image-based nodes: up to 20-40 nodes per lab CSR image-based nodes: up to 10 per lab

 

Virtual Server system requirements

Prerequisites:

CPU: Intel Xeon CPU supporting Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) Operation System: ESXi 6.0 or later

Server HW requirements

CPU

Recommended CPU 2x Intel E5-2650v3 (40 Logical processors) or better supporting Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)

Minimum CPU is any Intel Xeon CPU supporting Intel® VT-x

with Extended Page Tables (EPT)

RAM

128Gb

HDD Space

2Tb

Network

LAN Ethernet

 

PNETLab Virtual machine requirements

CPU

32/1 (Number of processors/Number of cores per processor) Enabled Intel VT-x/EPT virtualization engine

RAM

64Gb or more

HDD

800Gb or more

Network

vSwitch/VMnet

 

Note: Performance and quantity of nodes per lab depends from the type of nodes used in the lab.

Example:

120 IOL image-based lab

20 CSRv1000 image-based nodes per lab

 

Dedicated Server (bare) system requirements

 

Prerequisites:

CPU: Intel Xeon CPU supporting Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) Operation System: Ubuntu Server 16.04.4 LTS x64

 

Server HW requirements

CPU

Recommended CPU Intel E5-2650v3 (40 Logical processors) or better supporting Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) Minimum CPU is any Intel Xeon CPU supporting Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)

RAM

128Gb

HDD Space

2Tb

Network

LAN Ethernet