System requirements and installation 编辑

Before you install Citrix SD-WAN Center on a VM, make sure that you must understand the hardware and software requirements and have met the prerequisites.

Note

The system requirements are common for both single-region network and mutli-region network.

Hardware requirements

Citrix SD-WAN Center has the following hardware requirements.

Processor

• 4 Core, 3 GHz (or equivalent) processor or better for a server managing up to 64 sites.
• 8 Core, 3 GHz (or equivalent) processor or better for a server managing up to 128 sites.
• 16 Core, 3 GHz (or equivalent) processor or better for a server managing up to 256 sites.
• 32 core, 3 GHz (or equivalent) processor or better for a server managing up to 550 sites.

Memory

• A minimum of 8GB of RAM is strongly recommended for a VM managing up to 64 sites.
• A minimum of 16GB of RAM is strongly recommended for a VM managing up to 128 sites.
• A minimum of 32GB of RAM is strongly recommended for a VM managing up to 256 sites.
• A minimum of 32GB of RAM is strongly recommended for a VM managing up to 550 sites.

Disk space requirements

The following table provides some guidelines for determining the disk space requirements for Citrix SD-WAN Center data storage. Use direct access storage with SSD having 5000 to 10000 IOPS.

Estimated disk space requirement

Network bandwidth

The following table provides some guidelines for determining network bandwidth requirements for the Citrix SD-WAN Center VM.

Estimated network bandwidth requirements

Software

Citrix  SD-WAN Center VPX can be configured on the following platforms :

Hypervisor

• VMware ESXi server, version 6.5.
• Citrix XenServer 6.5 or higher.
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 or higher.

Cloud Platform

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services

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The Citrix SD-WAN Center Web Interface is supported on the following browsers:

• Google Chrome 40.0+
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11+
• Mozilla Firefox 41.0+

Prerequisites

Following are the prerequisites for installing and deploying Citrix SD-WAN Center:

• The SD-WAN Master Control Node (MCN) and existing client nodes must be upgraded to the latest Citrix SD-WAN software version.
• It is recommended to have a DHCP server available and configured in the SD-WAN network.
• You must have the Citrix SD-WAN Center installation files.

Note

You cannot customize or install any third party software on Citrix SD-WAN Center. However, you can modify the vCPU, memory and storage settings.

Download Citrix SD-WAN Center software

Download the Citrix SD-WAN Center Management Console software installation files, for the required release and platform, from the Downloads page.

The Citrix SD-WAN Center installation files use the following naming convention:

    ctx-sdwc-version_number-platform.extension

• version_number is the Citrix SD-WAN Center release version number.
• platform is the platform type, hypervisor, or cloud platform name.
• extension is the installation file extension.

Gather the Citrix SD-WAN Center installation and configuration information

This section provides a checklist of the information you will need to complete your Citrix SD-WAN Center installation and deployment.

Gather or determine the following information:

• The IP address of the ESXi server, XenServer, Hyper-V server, or Azure that hosts the Citrix SD-WAN Center Virtual Machine (VM).
• A unique name to assign to the Citrix SD-WAN Center VM.
• The amount of memory to allocate for the Citrix SD-WAN Center VM.
• The amount of disk capacity to allocate for the virtual disk for the VM.
• The Gateway IP Address the Citrix SD-WAN Center will use to communicate with external networks.
• The subnet mask for the network in which the Citrix SD-WAN Center VM will be installed.