Cisco WAE Server Requirements
You can install Cisco WAE on a server that meets the following requirements.
Operating System |
Software |
CPU |
Memory |
Hard Drive |
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Linux-x86_64 |
Centos/RHEL 8.1 with latest patches |
16+ Core |
64 GB |
Minimum: 500 GB Recommended: 1TB |
Important Notes
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Cisco WAE software is qualified on CentOS/RHEL 8.1. Cisco WAE VM is compatible with the ESXi versions which support RHEL 8.1.
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If you use a hard disk with greater than 2048 bytes physical sector size for data store filesystem, you may get the following error on startup:
Failed to initialize the system ..
For the WAE Live database to function as designed, the recommended block size is equal to or less than 2048 bytes for data store filesystem.
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Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.
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Modify the
/etc/security/limits.conf
file by adding or updating the following lines to make sure your hardware supports sufficient number of threads for starting poller:[user] soft stack 8192 [user] soft nproc 257805
Where
[user]
is the userid which starts the WAE process.Set the file descriptor limits:
[user] soft nofile 1000000 [user] hard nofile 1000000 # End of file
Note
Reboot the server after modifying the
limits.conf
file.
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In case of VM, there is no specific requirement for resource allocation in terms of provisioning or reservation, as this is not an OVA based installation. The provisioning and reservation depend on the customer environment and network.