System Requirements

Hardware Requirements: #

• x86_64 architecture
• Minimum 4x core CPU (8x core CPU recommended), SSE4.2 support
• Minimum 32GB of RAM (64GB RAM recommended; 128GB RAM – optimal)
• Minimum 250GB SSD storage (500GB SSD storage recommended) allocated to the /var partition

Software Requirements: #

• Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Please note that NFA can also be installed on a server running RHEL 8 / RHEL 9. The minimum system requirements assume default configuration. Significantly increasing the flow collection rate might cause additional load on a server, thus requiring extra memory or a larger CPU.

Hardware resources depend on the amount of flows/s exported to NFA. For each additional 1,000 flows/sec, 1 GB of RAM and 0.2 of vCPU are required. An additional 2 GB of RAM and 4 vCPU are required when the BGP add-on is used. Values are directly proportional: RAM and vCPU numbers per 1,000 flows/sec.

For instance: 40,000 flows/sec will require 40 GB of RAM and 8 vCPU, plus 2 GB of RAM and 4 vCPU in case a BGP add-on is used.

About Noction

Noction is a privately funded technology company with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Founded in 2011, Noction is providing cutting edge network intelligence technologies, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of maximum network performance for businesscritical applications such as e-commerce, VoIP and media streaming across IP networks.