HP Route Analytics Management Software

System and Device Support Matrix

Software Version: 9.20

June 2012

This document provides an overview of the system requirements and supported devices for HP Route Analytics Management Software (HP RAMS) version 9.20.

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This document is intended to augment the Release Notes. You can find both the Support Matrix (RAMS9.20_SupportMatrix.html) and the Release Notes (RAMS9.20_ReleaseNotes.html) at the HP Software Product Manuals web site.

Hardware Requirements

Before installing HP RAMS, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

Standard Hardware Requirement

• HP Proliant DL380 G7
• HP Proliant DL360 G7
• HP Proliant DL380 G6
• HP Proliant DL360 G6
• HP Proliant DL380 G5
• HP Proliant DL360 G5

Notes:

1. HP RAMS 9.20 Flow Collector is only supported on the following platforms:
   • DL380 G7
   • DL360 G7
   • DL380 G6
   • DL360 G6
   • DL380 G5
2. For Flow Collector two logical drives needs to be configured. Drive 1 must be at RAID level 1+0; drive 2 must be at RAID 0.
3. For non-Flow Collector only one logical drive needs to be configured. Which is default fault tolerance RAID level 1 or 1+0. Do NOT set up more than 1 logical drive.

Minimum Hardware Requirement

Scalability Matrix

Performance of a Route Recorder

• OSPF/ISIS
• 100 Areas over virtual interfaces (GREs or VLANs)
• 1,100,000 IGP prefixes
• 5,000 Routers
• BGP
• 100 ASs and 1,000 peers per AS
• 2,500 events per second. Capable of much higher bursts
• Number of routes per recorder is a function of memory configuration.
• MPLS VPN
• 19,000 Route Targets
• Number of routes per recorder is a function of memory configuration.
• Collector
• 20,000 tunnels.
• 5000 tunnels as a minimum per OS (Junos, IOS, IOS XR, Alcatel)
• Trap receiver
• 100 traps per second.

Performance of a Flow Collector

• 40,000 Flow records per second

Performance of a Flow Analyzer

Performance of a Flow Analyzer is disk bound hence, newer platforms with larger disk arrays will perform better.

Performance of DB

Database first time loading

 Memory Requirement

Memory for Flow Collector

Memory Sizing of Modeling Engines

Memory used for loading a topology model with varying numbers of prefixes

Memory used for loading a topology model and opening the prefix table with varying numbers of prefixes

Examples

Following example is for HP-Proliant G6 series:

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