Cisco Cisco Security Manager 4.11 Installation Guide

 

VMware performance is gated by the load generated by other VMs on the same host system, 
so these VM sizing figures are based on a system that is not under heavy load by other VMs. 

Recommended Host 
Server

Cisco UCS C220 M3 or equivalent

Virtual CPU

6 vCPUs. Having more vCPUs provides better performance. 

Memory (RAM)

16 GB is the minimum needed to use all features of Security Manager. With 
less memory, features such as Event Management and Report Management 
are affected. 

In particular, if the amount of RAM available to the operating system is less 
than 8 GB, Event Viewer and Report Manager are disabled during installation. 

If the memory available to the OS is between 8 and 12 GB, you can turn off 
Event Viewer and Report Manager, presuming that you do not plan to use 
them. Configuration Management will be usable in such systems. 

Although not recommended, you can enable Event Viewer and Report 
Manager for low memory systems from the Security Manager client after 
completing the installation (select Tools > Security Manager Administration 
> Event Management). Keep in mind that enabling Event Viewer and Report 
Manager on a system with low memory can severely affect the performance 
of the entire application. 

If you install AUS on a separate server, the following minimum applies: 

AUS-only server—4 GB. We recommend more than 4 GB. 

Memory utilization on the server, as shown by Windows Task 
Manager, may be 99% while performing configuration operations. 
This does not indicate a problem; this is normal because all processes 
and functions of Security Manager use or allocate their respective 
allocated memory.