Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 White Paper
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Table 1.
Server Sizing Matrix
Device Type
Express
Express-Plus
Standard
Professional
Hardware Appliance (Gen2)
Network Devices
● Max Unified APs
300
2500
5,000
10,000
20,000
● Max Wired Devices
300
1000
6,000
10,000
13,000
● Max Autonomous Aps
300
500
1500
2500
3,000
● Max NAMs
5
5
500
800
1,000
● Max Controllers
5
25
500
800
1000
● Maximum number of devices (combination
of wired and wireless devices)
500
3000
10000
14000
24000
Clients
● Max Wireless (Roaming) Clients
4,000
30,000
75,000
150000
200,000
● Max Changing (Transient) Clients
1,000
5,000
25,000
30000
40,000
● Max Wired Clients
6,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
● Mobility Services Engine (MSEs)
1
1
6
10
12
Monitoring
● Max Interfaces
12,000
50,000
250,000
250,000
350,000
● Max Net flows Rate (flows/sec)
3,000
3,000
16,000
40,000
80,000
● Max Events (events/sec)
100
100
300
500
1,000
● Max Trap Rate
20
20
60
100
300
● Max Syslog Rate
70
70
210
350
600
● Max NAM Data Polling Enabled
5
5
20
30
40
● Max Polling Interfaces (Polling of trunk
ports)
2400
8000
48000
10000
10000
● Max hourly Host Records
144,000
720,000
2,100,000
6,000,000
12,000,000
System
● Max Number of Sites per Campus
200
500
2,500
2,500
2,500
● Max Virtual Domains
100
500
750
750
750
● Max Groups (Total): User-Defined + Out of
the Box + Device Groups + Port Groups
50
100
150
150
150
● Max Concurrent GUI Clients
5
10
25
50
50
● Max Concurrent API Clients
2
2
5
5
5
Table 2 lists the hardware requirements for the virtual appliance based on wired/wireless scale.
Table 2.
Hardware Requirements for Virtual Appliance
Virtual Appliance
Size
Size
Virtual CPU
Memory (DRAM)
HDD Size Throughput (Disk I/O)
**
Max Concurrent Clients/Users
API Clients
Express
4
12 GB
300 GB
200 MB/s
5
2
Express-Plus
8
16 GB
600 GB
200 MB/s
10
2
Standard
16
16 GB
900 GB
200 MB/s
25
5
Professional
16
24 GB
1. 2 TB
320 MB/s
50
5