Brocade Virtual ADX Installation and Deployment Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) - Manual (Page 27)

Brocade Virtual ADX Installation on KVM Host
● Brocade Virtual ADX in the KVM host environment........................................................ 27
● Configuration overview....................................................................................................27
● Brocade Virtual ADX Prerequisites................................................................................. 27
● Brocade Virtual ADX download.......................................................................................28
● Installing Virtual ADX VM on KVM host.......................................................................... 29
● Additional interfaces........................................................................................................37
● TCP checksum offload.................................................................................................... 39
This section describes how to download and install the Brocade Virtual ADX Application Delivery Switch
(Brocade Virtual ADX) on KVM host. You will learn about the prerequisites, the download location and
other information to get started.
Brocade Virtual ADX in the KVM host environment
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization solution for Linux on x86
hardware, with hardware virtualization extensions. The environment setup involves the installation and
configuration of KVM on the KVM host and then deploying the Brocade Virtual ADX.
Configuration overview
The configuration task involves configuring the KVM hypervisor and the Brocade Virtual ADX VM. The
hypervisor configuration involves setting up the network interfaces and the properties of the VM. This
configuration is managed by the KVM Virtual Machine Management tool or shell commands. The VM
properties include memory size allocation, disk space allocation, virtual CPUs allocation, and so on.
Brocade Virtual ADX Prerequisites
The recommended minimum resources required by the Brocade Virtual ADX are shown below.
Software
• KVM host 0.10.0 or higher
Hardware
• Host CPU supporting virtual technology such as Intel VT or AMD-V
• 4 GB RAM
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