The Intel® Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network reference designs provide a fast-track specification for building and deploying next-generation content delivery network (CDN) servers based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Hardware configurations for Base and Plus Configurations for Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network
| Ingredient | Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network Base Configuration |
Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network Plus Configuration |
|---|---|---|
| Processor |
2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230 processor (2.1 GHz, 20 cores), or Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230N processor (2.3 GHz, 20 cores), or Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218R (2.1 GHz, 20 cores), or higher number SKU |
2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252 processor (2.1 GHz, 24 cores), or Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248R (3.0 GHz, 24 cores), or higher number SKU |
| DRAM and Intel® Optane™ DC Technology |
Option 1: 384 GB DRAM Option 2: 192 GB DRAM plus 512 GB Intel Optane DC persistent memory |
Option 1: 384 GB DRAM plus 1.0 TB Intel Optane DC persistent memory Option 2: 192 GB DRAM plus 1.5 TB Intel Optane DC persistent memory Option 3: 384 GB DRAM plus 2 x Intel Optane DC SSD P4800X Series @ 750 GB |
| NICS |
2 x 25GbE Dual Port Intel® Ethernet Controller XXV710 |
2 X 25GbE Dual Port Intel Ethernet Controller XXV710 |
| Intel® QAT |
Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8960 (PCIe) add in card (AIC), or Intel® C627 chipset with Intel QAT enabled integrated with minimum PCIe x 8 uplink or higher SKU |
Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8970 (PCIe) AIC, or Intel C627 chipset with Intel QAT enabled integrated with minimum PCIe x 16 uplink or higher SKU |
Visual Cloud Acceleration Card |
Not applicable |
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator (Intel® VCA) 2 |
Intel® 3D NAND SSDs |
2 x Intel® SSD Data Center P4510 Series for NVMe @ 2.0 TB (for OS and primary data), and |
4 x Intel SSD Data Center P4510 Series for NVMe @ 2.0 TB (for OS and primary data), and
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| LAN On Motherhood |
2 x 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps port pre-boot execution environment (PXE) and operation, administration and management (OAM), and 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps port for management NIC |
2 x 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps port for PXE and OAM, and 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps port for management NIC |