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- Supported Gateway firmware levels are 10.0.x and 2018.4.x.
Some functionalities are also available for lower firmware levels. For more details please see Release Notes. - Supported API Connect versions are 10.0.x, 2018.4.x and 5.0.8.x.
- DPOD only supports gateways with supported firmware levels that meet the minimum system requirements for DataPower Gateways.
- The DataPower Gateway language must be set to English.
Physical HW or Hypervisor Hypervisor
DPOD can be installed on either a Virtualized Environment virtual environment (Hypervisorshypervisors) or Physical server physical servers (Intel(C) based CPUs and supporting CentOS/RedHat 7.x OS). Consult the table below for information to support this decision.
For a production environment suitable for hypervisor (virtual environment), the virtual appliance is supported on the following VMware hypervisors:
- VMWare ESX ESX - v6.0, v6.5VMWare Player - , v6.7
- VMWare Workstation/Player - v14, v15VMWare Workstation - v14, v15v16
- VMware Fusion v11.0, v11.5, v12.0, v12.1
- PureApp (only on Intel Processors) - no pattern yet available, can be provided only as an imported OVA.
- For Hyper V support - contact your IBM sales representatives.
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DPOD offers 6 basic load configuration setups. :
- One load configuration architecture setup architecture for development (exists only in the Developer Edition ISO file).
The Developer edition Developer Edition ISO file name is DPOD-Developer-CentOS-<version>.iso, and can be downloaded from Fix Central.
Five load configuration architecture setups that exist for architectures for the Standard Edition are available in, available as:
- Appliance Mode (ISO file) - DPOD_CentOS_<version>.iso - can be downloaded from PPA. For example: DPOD_CentOS_1.0.11.0.iso
Non-Appliance Mode (Compressed Executable file) - DPOD_RedHat_<version>.cef - can be downloaded from PPA. For example: DPOD_RedHat_1.0.11.0.cef
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Please consider the following rules of thumb for sizing:
- Customers that expect a load of up to 120 TPS (across all devices, including future growth) may choose one of the options from the table below.
- Customers that expect a load of over
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- 120 TPS (across all devices, including future growth) are required to complete a sizing process by opening a support ticket
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- Currently a single installation of DPOD cell environment with 7 physical cell members can process up to ~20,000 TPS (assuming ~35 Syslog records per transaction on average). Customers with higher load than that may create several installations, each can handle up to ~20,000 TPS.
Available in Edition | Load Configuration Architecture | Goal | TPS Limit | Supports Virtual Environment | Cores | RAM | Storage |
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Developer | Development | Developers only. In rare cases can be used for functional POCs. | 2-3 TPS | Can be virtual (75) | 2 cores (1) | 4 GB (3) | Single disk: 25GB |
Standard | Minimal | POCs and evaluation. | 5 TPS | Can be virtual (75) | 4 cores (1) | 18 GB (3) | OS: 40 GB |
Standard | Low | Environment with low load levels | 40 TPS | Can be virtual (75) | 6 cores (1) | 32 GB (3) | OS: 40 GB |
Standard | Medium | Environment with moderate load | 80 TPS | Can be virtual (75) | 8 cores (1) | 64 GB (3) | OS: 40 GB |
Standard | High | Environment with moderate load | 120 TPS | Can be virtual, but not recommended (75) | 16 cores (1) | 128-256 GB (3) | OS: 40 GB |
Standard | High_20dv | Environment with medium to high load | 200-1500 TPS (6) | Must be installed on a physical server | 24 cores Needs sizing (5+6) | 256-512 GB Needs sizing (6) | TBD Needs sizing (6) |
Standard | High_20dv | Environment with very high load | 2750 TPS (6) | Must be installed on a physical server | TBD Needs sizing (6)TBD | Needs sizing (6) | TBD Needs sizing (6) |
Standard | Federated Architecture | Environment with very high load | >2750 TPS - TBD (6) | Must be installed on physical servers | TBD Needs sizing (6)TBD | Needs sizing (6) | TBD Needs sizing (6) |
(1) The hosting server (e.g. ESXi) CPU utilization should not exceed 80%. To ensure best indexing performance, the virtual machine configuration should be set to have reserved CPUs.
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(4) The TPS is the maximum total transaction load across all devices/domains connected to DPOD.
(5) To cater for 1500 TPS, customers are required to have 256GB memory, 24 Physical cores (each is Hyper-Threaded thus equivalent to a total of 48), Local storage with RAID0 across 4-8 SSD Disks (SAS 6GBs) - each supporting at least 80K Random Write IOPS 4KiB and write avg latency of less than 35 uSec. Two controllers will be required to be attached to each CPU. Please keep the ratio between RAM and Data storage size to be 1GB RAM: 16GB Data Disk (recommended) and no more than 1 GB RAM:32GB Disk (minimal).
(6) Customers will be provided with specifications after a sizing process with L3.
(7) Virtual Virtual deployments performance cannot be guaranteed. Virtual deployments performance depends on the server hosting the VM (ESX), its configuration, the overall load it is experiencing at any given time from any of its VMs, and especially the performance of the remote storage.
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Storage Recommendation
- DPOD serves as a database and should, therefore, be configured to use very fast disks. For this reason, DPOD installation requires 3 separate DISKS for OS, Installation, and Data.
- Usage of slow disks is not recommended and will impact the amount of time between the creation of transaction logs and the availability of the data on DPOD's dashboards.
- For Physical hardware installations that can utilize HW RAID services the following setup is recommended:
- RAID5 - 40GB - for OS disk
- RAID5 - 40GB - for App disk
- RAID0 - Depends on volume - for Data disk.
- For each 1 TB of data 64 GB of RAM is recommended for responsive queries (dashboards and filters). Please keep the ratio between RAM and Data storage size to be 1GB RAM: 16GB Data Disk (recommended) and no more than 1 GB RAM:32GB DISK (minimal).
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DPOD does not support the CentOS built-in RAID (Software Raid). The only supported RAID is the one handled by a controller. |
Network Requirements
DPOD requires at least one network interface for accessing DPOD's User Interface and communications with Gateway's Management Interface.
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