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Release Notes for Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director (Cisco StadiumVision Director) Release 5.0
System Requirements for Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director Release 5.0
Virtualized Server Environment Support
Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director is designed to run in a modern virtual machine (VM) environment, such as
VMware’s vSphere. You can use another Cisco device or third-party server to run the Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage
Director software.
VMware’s vSphere. You can use another Cisco device or third-party server to run the Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage
Director software.
Follow the requirements in this section to be sure that your virtual environment meets the minimum and tested
specifications.
specifications.
This section includes the following topics:
Minimum Virtual Machine System Requirements for Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director
Be sure that your configuration meets the minimum system requirements in
and supports a VMware
virtual machine environment with a compatible vSphere version (See
Note:
Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director servers are meant to be physically located close to the DMPs that they
operate with, and communicating to the players over a LAN. For information about installation-related licensing
compliance, see the
compliance, see the
.
provides additional information about the tested VM hardware and OS specifications that you should
use when configuring a virtual machine to support Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director.
Table 8
Minimum System Requirements for the Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director Server in a Virtualized
Environment
System Component
Minimum Requirement
Processor
Two processors each equivalent to an Intel Xeon Processor E5-2640
(15 MB cache, 2.50 GHz clock, 7.20 GT/s Intel® QPI)
(15 MB cache, 2.50 GHz clock, 7.20 GT/s Intel® QPI)
Forward write (fwrite) operations per
second
second
10,000
Virtual CPUs
1
1.
Hyperthreading can be used. Be sure that the BIOS is properly configured to enable it.
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Virtual Disk Space
900 GB
Virtual RAM (VRAM)
32 GB
2
2.
32 GB is the minimum VRAM that should be reserved for installation and operation of the Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage
Director system. Additional storage should be allowed for the ESXi OS.
Director system. Additional storage should be allowed for the ESXi OS.
Table 9
Virtual Machine Hardware and OS Specifications Tested for Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director
Server
System Component
Specification
VM Hardware
Version 8
Guest Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)
Network Adapter
E1000
SCSI Controller
LSI Logic Parallel or LSI Logic SAS
Disk Provisioning
Thick