Hardware Requirements

Netris Controller

We recommend two Ubuntu 24.04 servers with the below specs. Netris controller can also run on other Linux OSes or on a shared Kubernetes cluster.

Use Case

CPU Cores

RAM

SSD/NVME

Network

Leaf/Spine 1-30 switches

4

32 GB

300 GB

2x 1GbE+ NIC

Leaf/Spine 30-100 switches

8

32 GB

600 GB

2x 1GbE+ NIC

Leaf/Spine 100-300 switches

16

64 GB

1 TB

2x 10GbE+ NIC

Leaf/Spine 300+ switches

32

128 GB

2 TB

2x 10GbE+ NIC

Spectrum-X 1-8 SUs

16

64 GB

1 TB

2x 10GbE+ NIC

Spectrum-X 16-32 SUs

32

128 GB

2 TB

2x 10GbE+ NIC

Spectrum-X 32+ SUs

64

256 GB

10 TB

2x 10GbE+ NIC

Netris SoftGate HS (The Horizontally Scalable version)

A minimum of 4 dedicated servers are required for an HA (highly available) active-active SoftGate HS cluster. Two SoftGates will forward stateful traffic (SNAT), and two others will forward the stateless traffic (DNAT, 1:1 NAT, Layer-4 Load Balancing, etc.) Each group (stateful and stateless) can be scaled horizontally by deploying more servers as CPU & RAM utilization necessitates.

Server specs:

Minimum

Recommended

CPU (Modern Intel/AMD X86)

16 Cores

32 Cores

RAM

128 GB

256 GB

NIC prod

2x 10GbE

2x 25GbE

NIC OOB

1x 1GbE

1x 1GbE

Disk

300 GB

300 GB

Supported Switch Hardware

Nvidia

Manufacturer

Model

ASIC

Ports

NOS

Caveats

Supported

Nvidia

SN2010

Spectrum

18 x SFP28 25GbE + 4 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN2100

Spectrum

16 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN2201

Spectrum

48 x RJ45 + 4 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN2410

Spectrum

48 x SFP28 25GbE + 8 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN2700

Spectrum

32 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN3420

Spectrum 2

48 x SFP28 25GbE + 12 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN3700C

Spectrum 2

32 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN3700

Spectrum 2

32 x QSFP56 200GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN4410

Spectrum 3

24 x QSFP28-DD 100G + 8 x QSFP-DD 400GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN4600C

Spectrum 3

64 x QSFP28 100GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN4600

Spectrum 3

64 QSFP56 200GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN4700

Spectrum 3

32 x QSFP-DD 400GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN5400

Spectrum 4

64 x QSFP-DD 400GbE + 2 x SFP28 25GbE

Cumulus Linux

Nvidia

SN5600

Spectrum 4

64 x OSFP 800GbE + 1 x SFP28 25GbE

Cumulus Linux

Dell

Manufacturer

Model

ASIC

Ports

NOS

Caveats

Supported

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5212F-ON

Broadcom Trident III

12 x 25G SFP28 + 3 x 100GbE QSFP28

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5224F-ON

Broadcom Trident III

24 x 25G SFP28 + 4 x 100GbE QSFP28

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5232F-ON

Broadcom Trident III

32 x 100GbE QSFP28

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5248F-ON

Broadcom Trident III

48 x 25G SFP28 + 4 x 100GbE QSFP28 + 2 x 200GbE QSFP28

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5296F-ON

Broadcom Trident III

96 x 25G SFP28 + 8 x 100GbE QSFP28

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch S Series S5448F-ON

Broadcom Trident IV

48 x QSFP-DD 100GbE + 8 x QSFP-DD 400GbE

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch Z Series Z9664F-ON

Broadcom Tomahawk IV

64 x QSFP-DD 400GbE

Dell-SONiC

Dell

PowerSwitch Z Series Z9432F-ON

Broadcom Trident IV

32 x QSFP-DD 400GbE

Dell-SONiC

EdgeCore

Manufacturer

Model

ASIC

Ports

NOS

Caveats

Supported

EdgeCore

DCS201 (AS5835-54X)

Broadcom Trident III

48 x 10G SFP+ + 6 x 100G QSFP28

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

DCS202 (AS5835-54T)

Broadcom Trident III

48 x 10G RJ-45 + 6 x 100G QSFP28

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

DCS203 (AS7326-56X)

Broadcom Trident III

48 x 25G SFP28 + 8 x 100G QSFP28+ 2 x 10G

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

AS7726-32X

Broadcom Trident III

32 x 100G QSFP28 + 2 x 10G SFP+

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

DCS510 (AS9716-32D)

Broadcom Tomahawk 3

32 x 400G QSFP-DD

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

DCS511 (AS9737-32DB)

Broadcom Tomahawk 4

32 x 400G QSFP56-DD

EC-SONiC

EdgeCore

AIS800-64O

Broadcom Tomahawk 5

64 x OSFP800

EC-SONiC

Arista

Manufacturer

Model

ASIC

Ports

NOS

Caveats

Supported

Arista

7020R

Qumran

24 x 10G + 2 QSFP100; 32 x 10G + 2 QSFP100; 48 x 100/1000Mb + 6 SFP+; 48 x 100/1000Mb + 6 SFP+

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7050X3

Broadcom Trident III

32 x QSFP100; 48 x SFP25 + 12 x QSFP100; 48 x SFP25 + 8 x QSFP100; 48 x 10G-T + 8 x QSFP100

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7050X4

Trident-4

32 QSFP-DD 400G + 2SFP+; 32 OSFP 400G + 2SFP+; 48 SFP-DD 100G + 8 QSFP-DD 400G; 48 DSFP 100G + 8 QSFPDD 400G; 24 QSFP56 200G + 8 QSFPDD 400G + 2SFP+; 48 QSFP28 + 8 QSFP-DD 400G + 2SFP+

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7060X4

Trident-4

32 x QSFP-DD 800G + 2 x SFP+; 32 x QSFP-DD 800G + 2 x SFP+; 32 x OSFP 800G + 2 x SFP+; 64 x QSFP-DD 400G, 2 x SFP+; 32 x QSFP-DD + 1x SFP+; 56x QSFP100, 8 x QSFP-DD 400G + 1x SFP+

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7060X5

Tomahawk 4

32 x QSFP-DD 800G + 2x SFP+; 32 x QSFP-DD 800G + 2x SFP+; 32 x OSFP 800G + 2x SFP+; 64 x QSFP-DD 400G + 2x SFP+; : 32 x QSFP-DD + 1 x SFP+; 56x QSFP100, 8 x QSFP-DD 400G, 1x SFP+

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7280R3A

Jericho2

144 x 100G or 36 x 400G

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7280R3

Jericho2

24 x 400G; 96 x 100G; 25G + 8 x 100G

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7358X4

Trident-4

128 x QSFP or 32 x OSFP / QSFP-DD

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7358X4

Trident-4

128 x QSFP or 32 x OSFP / QSFP-DD

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7368X4

Tomahawk 3

128 x 100G or 32 x 400G

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7300R3

Trident-4

256 wire-speed 40GbE ports

EOS

Dec/2024

Arista

7500R3

Jericho, Jericho2

Up to 288 wire-speed 400G ports

EOS

Dec/2024