Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Installation Guide
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Physical Appliance Options
Users deploying the Prime Infrastructure physical appliance can choose from the Gen 1 or Gen 2 options shown in
The Gen 1 and Gen 2 physical appliance capacities match those of the virtual appliance Standard and Professional options,
respectively.
respectively.
Table 2
Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance Options
Physical Appliance Options
2.X Option
Gen 1
Gen 2
1
1. The Gen 2 Cisco UCS-based physical appliance is scheduled for release in the first quarter of calendar year 2015.
Appliance Image Format
Bare Metal/ISO
Bare Metal/ISO
Equivalent 1.x Option
Physical Appliance
Physical Appliance
Hardware Specifications
CPU (cores/threads)
8 C/16 T
10 C/20 T
Memory
16 GB
64 GB
Disk Capacity
4x300 GB
4x900 GB
RAID Level
RAID 5
RAID 10
Disk I/O Speed
200 MBps
320 MBps
Devices
Maximum unified APs
5000
20,000
Maximum autonomous APs
3000
3000
Maximum WLAN controllers
500
1000
Maximum wired (switches, routers)
6000
13,000
Maximum MSEs
10
25
NAMs
500
1000
Maximum number of devices
10,000
24,000
Clients
Wired clients
50,000
50,000
Wireless clients
75,000
200,000
Changing clients (every 5 min.)
25,000
40,000
Monitoring
Events sustained rate (events/sec)
300
1000
Netflow rate (flows/sec)
16,000
80,000
Max interfaces
250,000
350,000
Max NAM polling data enabled
20
40
System
Max number sites/campus
2500
2500
Max groups
2
2. “Maximum groups” is the total number of all user-defined groups, out-of-the-box groups, device groups, and port groups
150
150
Max virtual domains
1200
1200
System Users
Concurrent GUI clients
25
50
Concurrent API clients
5
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