Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 White Paper
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Note: You can configure any combination of sockets and cores, the product of which must equal the number of
virtual CPUs required. For example, if 16 virtual CPUs are required, you can configure 4 sockets with 4 cores, or 2
virtual CPUs required. For example, if 16 virtual CPUs are required, you can configure 4 sockets with 4 cores, or 2
sockets with 8 cores, etc.
Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Option 1: Installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure on a Physical Appliance
The Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 comes preinstalled on a next-generation Cisco UCS appliance. For some
reason, if the physical appliance comes without any
software, application may be installed from the ‘.iso’ image
(burnt on DVD). The procedure, once the server boots up, will be similar to the ones described for virtual appliance.
Use the ‘.iso’ image instead of the ‘.ova’ image, if installing on a Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance. For
Use the ‘.iso’ image instead of the ‘.ova’ image, if installing on a Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance. For
Cisco Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance comes with the specifications shown in Table 3.
Table 3.
Cisco Prime Appliance Specifications
Physical
Appliance
Appliance
Physical CPU
Memory (DRAM) HDD Size
Throughput
(Disk I/O)
(Disk I/O)
Max Concurrent
Clients/Users
Clients/Users
API Clients
Cisco Prime
Appliance
Appliance
10 Cores (20
Threads)
Threads)
64 GB
3600 GB
(8x900 GB RAID10)
320 MB/s
50
5
Option 2: Installing the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Virtual Appliance
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is delivered as a virtual appliance or OVA file. OVA files allow you to easily deploy a
prepackaged virtual machine (VM) - an application along with a database and an operating system. Please follow
the link below for detailed instruction on installing Cisco Prime Infrastructure Virtual Application.
Accessing Cisco Prime Infrastructure GUI
Client Requirements
Table 4 shows all the supported browsers that can be used to access Cisco Prime Infrastructure. See the
Table 4.
Client Requirements
Supported Browser
Browser Version
Additional Note
Internet Explorer
10, or 11
No plug-ins are required
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox 35 or later
Latest Firefox version may be used, but it may not be tested depending on when it was released.
Mozilla Firefox ESR
ESR 31, 38
Google Chrome
Chrome 40 or later Latest Chrome version may be used, but it may not be tested depending on when it was released.
Display resolution
—Cisco Prime Infrastructure supports 1366 x 768 or higher, but we recommend that you set the
screen resolution to 1600 x 900.
Cisco Prime Infrastructure user interface is based on HTML 5 and removes any dependency on Adobe Flash.