System Requirements#

Edge Node Hardware Requirements#

Edge Orchestrator does not mandate the use of these specific hardware SKUs. It supports a wide variety of processors including Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Core™ processors, Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and Intel® Atom™ processors along with Intel® ARC™ graphics cards. Actual hardware requirements depend on the desired applications performance requirements that get deployed on the edge node.

Minimum hardware requirements for an edge node:

  • CPU:

    • 3rd Gen or newer Intel® Xeon® Processor

    • 12th Gen or newer Intel® Core™ or Core Ultra Processor

    • 8th Gen or newer Intel® Atom® Processor

    • 4 cores minimum

  • RAM 8GB

  • Storage

    • 1 Dedicated Data disk with minimum capacity of 100GiB(*)

    • SSD, NVME and SATA disk types

    • Priority order for provisioning is SSD, NVME, SATA. If multiple disk have the same name and type the smaller size one is selected.

  • Network interface Card Supported by inbox Linux kernel drivers (one of):

    • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter X710 family

    • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810 family, recommended firmware version 22.5.7

    • Intel® Ethernet Network Onboard Core Network Adapters

    • Broadcom* LAN On Motherboard (LOM), validated with BCM57504 card

  • Network

    • Connectivity outbound to the centralized Edge Orchestrator software.

    • Connectivity outbound to the public Internet.

    • Upstream 1 Gbps bandwidth is preferred, but 512 Mbps has also been validated.

  • Boot mechanism (either one of the two)

    • USB boot

    • HTTPs boot if fully remote provisioning is required.

  • BIOS version 1.12.1 or higher (if supported) for Dell devices

Note

Actual resource requirements will widely vary depending on user deployed applications (for example, AI inferencing)

Validated Hardware#

The following hardware has been validated by Intel as part of our periodic release process:

  • Dell* PowerEdge R760, xR8000, xR12, 5200 (Xeon Processor)

  • Lenovo* SE360v2, SE450, SE350 (Xeon Processor)

  • ASRock* iEP-7020E (Core Processor)

  • ASUS* NUC 13, NUC 14, PE300G

  • AAEON* Up Squared 7000 Series (Atom Processor)

This list is constantly expanded based on Intel roadmap and in collaboration with our partners and their use cases.

Supported Operating Systems and Browsers#

Edge Orchestrator does not require local installation on your OS. You can access it using your browser. Thus, it does not requires any specific OS version, as long as a graphical user interface and a web browser are available.

The supported browsers are as follows:

  • Chrome*

  • Edge*

  • Safari*

  • Firefox*

For the best Edge Orchestrator experience, use the Chrome browser.