LiveNX Deployment
Deployment Options
LiveNX components can be deployed via the following methods: Virtual, Physical, and Cloud. The Virtual Deployment Specifications, as well as the Cisco and Multi-Vendor Device Support lists are provided below.
If you are interested in deploying LiveNX in a Physical, Cloud (Azure, AWS, & Google Cloud), Hyper-V, or KVM environment, please contact LiveAction sales (sales@liveaction.com) for the specifications appropriate for those environments and your needs.
Virtual Deployment Specifications
The LiveNX Server is primarily deployed as a VMware OVA virtual appliance and is fully operational right out of the box. The server operating system runs on a Linux (Ubuntu) platform.
Server Platform Specifications
• VMware ESXi v5.0 or higher - VMware Hardware Version 8 (vmx-8)
• Network Hardware - At least two Physical NICS on ESXi
• Support up to 10 Gbps
• Virtual NICs on OVA are utilizing E1000
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Proof of Concept (POC)
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Small Deployment
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Medium Deployment
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Large Deployment
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Physical Deployment
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<= 25 devices or
<= 25 k flows/sec. |
<= 100 devices or
<= 50 k flows/sec. |
100 to 500 devices or
<= 100 k flows/sec. |
500 to 1000 devices or
<= 150 k flows/sec. |
Up to 1000 devices or
<= 500 k flows/sec. |
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Min. Requirements:
• 8 vCPU Xeon or i7
• 16 GB RAM
• Max Heap Size 8 GB
• 500 GB Data Disk
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Min. Requirements:
• 16 vCPU Xeon or i7
• 32 GB RAM*
• Max Heap Size 16 GB
• 2 TB Data Disks
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Min. Requirements:
• 16 vCPU Xeon or i7
• 64 GB RAM*
• Max Heap Size 31 GB
• 4 TB Data Disks
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Min. Requirements:
• 32 vCPU Xeon or i7
• 64 GB RAM*
• Max Heap Size 31 GB
• 8 TB Data Disks
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Min. Requirements:
• 64 vCPU Xeon Gold 5218
• 768 GB RAM
• Max Heap Size 384 GB
• 32 TB Data Disks (16 TB usable with RAID 10)
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Each LiveNX server/node supports up to 76 TB disk space. It is recommended to add each disk in 10 TB increments.
Server IOPS Recommendation LiveNX 8.0 - 1000 IOPS Read and 4500 IOPS Write. *For Cisco SD-WAN environments, a Large Deployment with minimum of 256 GB RAM is required for the Virtual Appliance option.
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Client Platform Specifications
• Windows or macOS
• 4 Cores
• 8 GB RAM
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