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The physical specifications of the ESXi hosts allow for successful deployment and operation of the design. The physical design specifications of the ESXi host determine the characteristics of the ESXi hosts that you use to deploy the Telco Cloud Platform Core solution—for example, consistent PCI card slot placement, especially for network controllers, is essential for accurate physical to virtual I/O resources. By using identical configurations, you can balance the VM storage components across storage and compute resources.
Four PowerEdge R750 servers are used in this reference architecture to meet the stringent requirements of Core NFs. The following Oracle Core NFs were onboarded and validated in these servers: NRF, PCF, BSF, NSSF, and SCP.