Introduction

The Mobility Services Engine (MSE) is offered as a virtual appliance to support lower-end, standard, and high end deployments.

The MSE virtual appliance uses the following standard templates:

  • Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for VMware
  • Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) for Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for Citrix XenServer

This chapter describes the system requirements for the MSE virtual appliance and provides general deployment guidelines.

This chapter contains the following sections:

MSE Virtual Appliance Reference Hardware Configurations

The below table lists the available MSE virtual appliance reference hardware configurations:

Reference Hardware Configurations

MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance
MSE Standard Virtual Appliance
MSE High-End Virtual Appliance
Processor

UCS-CPU-E5-2609 (qty 1)

UCS-CPU-E5-2660 (qty 1)

UCS-CPU-E5-2660 (qty 2)

RAM

UCS-MR-1X082RX-A (qty 1) - 8 GB

UCS-MR-1X082RX-A (qty 2) - 16 GB

UCS-MR-1X041RX-A
(qty 4) - 24 GB

Disk

UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 2, in RAID 1 config)

UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 4, in RAID 10 config)

UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 4, in RAID 10 config)

RAID

UCS-RAID-9266CV

UCS-RAID-9266CV

UCS-RAID-9266CV

Example Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) configurations that match the minimum requirements:

 

UCSC-C240-M3L

UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU, mem, HD, PCIe, PSU w/rail kit, expdr

UCSC-C240-M3L

UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU,mem, HD, PCIe,PSU w/rail kit, expdr

UCSC-C240-M3L

UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU,mem, HD, PCIe, PSU w/rail kit, expdr

 

UCS-CPU-E5-2609

2.4 GHz E5-2609/80W 4C/10MB Cache/DDR3 1066MHz

UCS-CPU-E5-2660

2.20 GHz E5-2660/95W 8C/20MB Cache/DDR3 1600MHz

UCS-CPU-E5-2660

2.20 GHz E5-2660/95W 8C/20MB Cache/DDR3 1600MHz

 

UCS-MR-1X082RX-A

8GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/2R/1.35v

UCS-MR-1X082RX-A

8GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3‑10600/2R/1.35v

UCS-MR-1X041RX-A

4GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3‑10600/1R/1.35v

 

UCS-HDD300GI2F208

300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5 inch HDD/hot plug/drive sled mounted

UCS-HDD300GI2F208

300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5 inch HDD/hot plug/drive sled mounted

UCS-HDD300GI2F208

300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5 inch HDD/hot plug/drive sled mounted

 

UCS-RAID-9266CV

MegaRAID 9266CV-8i w/TFM + Super Cap

UCS-RAID-9266CV

MegaRAID 9266CV-8i w/TFM + Super Cap

UCS-RAID-9266CV

MegaRAID 9266CV-8i w/TFM + Super Cap

 

UCSC-PSU-650W

650W power supply for C-Series rack servers

UCSC-PSU-650W

650W power supply for C-Series rack servers

UCSC-PSU-650W

650W power supply for C-Series rack servers

 

R2XX-DMYMPWRCORD

No power cord option

R2XX-DMYMPWRCORD

No power cord option

R2XX-DMYMPWRCORD

No power cord option

Resource Management

Resource management depends on the license that you want to deploy. The below table lists the different levels at which you can configure the virtual appliance and which virtual appliance (OVA) that you procure.

Virtual Machine Sizing Chart

Primary MSE
Resources
Supported License (Individually)

Virtual Appliance Level

Total Memory

Virtual CPUs

Base License (APs)

CMX License (APs)

wIPS License (APs)

Low End

8G

4

200

Not supported

2000

Standard

16G

8

2500

2500

6000

High End

24G

16

5000

5000

10000