Cisco Cisco Expressway Maintenance Manual
Appliance and virtual machine options
The Expressway supports on-premises and cloud applications and is available as a dedicated appliance or
as a virtualized application on VMware, with additional support for Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco
UCS) platforms.
as a virtualized application on VMware, with additional support for Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco
UCS) platforms.
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Virtual machine options
The Expressway has 3 virtualized application deployment types:
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Small (for BE 6000 platform)
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Medium (standard installation)
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Large (extra performance and scalability capabilities)
for more information.
CE Series appliances
The Expressway is available as a dedicated CE Series appliance which is based on a UCS C220 M3L:
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CE500 appliance: used for standard installations and is equivalent to a Medium VM
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CE1000 appliance: offers extra performance and scalability capabilities and is equivalent to a Large VM
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Introduction
About the Cisco Expressway