Prisma SD-WAN NFV Virtual Deployment Prerequisites
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Prisma SD-WAN
NFV Virtual Deployment Prerequisites
Prerequisites for the Virtual ION on KVM for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
Deployment .
The
Prisma SD-WAN
Virtual ION on KVM
for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Deployment Guide focuses
specifically on deployment on standard NFV deployments. NFV can
be instantiated and in many different forms and
Prisma SD-WAN
deployed on
top of the NFV environment.
A virtual ION device can be deployed to an NFV host and assigned
to either a branch or data center type of site. The design and deployment
considerations are different between a branch and data center site.
The VM deployment options such as the number of interfaces needed
for the VM, how the virtual network interfaces are bound to physical
NICs, etc. will vary based on these requirements. The following
figure shows an example of a branch deployment where the virtual
ION device is the WAN router terminating the MPLS and internet circuits.
To successfully deploy and configure
Prisma SD-WAN
in an NFV environment the vION
model type and role should be determined prior to implementation.
Download the latest release image from Palo
Alto Networks and for sizing and resources requirements, refer to the SD-WAN datasheet
and the
Prisma SD-WAN
documentation.
In summary, the supported NFV environment must meet the following
requirements.
Deploy in standard NFV deployments, some examples are as follows:
Linux-generic KVM on actively supported distribution
releases (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL, and so on.)
The Server or the generic uCPE hardware must meet the following
requirements:
x86 CPU host processor with 64-bit processing
Hardware virtualization support
In order to facilitate the deployment of
Prisma SD-WAN
ION devices
to an NFV host,
Prisma SD-WAN
provides the virtual image in a
qcow
format
per model type.
Model Name | vCPU | Memory (GB) | Disk (GB) | Throughput (Mbps) |