Platform

The Anapaya appliance can be installed either on a bare-metal hardware platform, or on a virtualized platform. Anapaya qualifies a variety of hardware platforms and virtualized environments to be used as a base to run Anapaya CORE, EDGE or GATE software appliances. This document can be downloaded as a PDF

• 1. Evaluation of Platforms
  • 1.1. Classification of Platforms
  • 1.2. Quality Assurance Pipeline and Software Support Level
• 2. Supported Platforms
  • 2.1. Standard Appliance Hardware Platforms
  • 2.2. Commodity Server Hardware Platforms
  • 2.3. Virtual Networking Function (VNF) Hardware Platforms
  • 2.4. Virtualized Platforms
    • 2.4.1. Sizing recommendation for virtualized environments
  • 2.5. VNF Hardware Platforms
• 3. Tested Platforms
  • 3.1. Other Server Hardware Platforms
  • 3.2. Virtualized Platforms
  • 3.3. VNF Hardware Platforms
• 4. Expected to work configurations
  • 4.1. General Parameters
  • 4.2. Specific Parameters
• 5. Explicitly not supported
  • 5.1. Network Interface Cards (for production interfaces)
  • 5.2. Virtualized environments with OS image mandated by the supplier
• 6. Hardware devices distributed by Anapaya
  • 6.1. S-type: device supporting the EDGE software up to 1Gbit/s of throughput
  • 6.2. L-type appliance: for medium-sized POP or DC installations up to 25Gbit/s
  • 6.3. XL-type: for high performance POPs (up to 100Gbit/s)
• 7. Revision history