Cisco Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart 8.2 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart 8.2
Q. What is Cisco Prime
™
IP Express Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart is a high-performing hardware appliance for Domain Name System (DNS)
and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services for the enterprise market. The appliance combines
the reliability and security of Cisco Prime IP Express, and its robust DHCP and DNS servers, with the ease of
deployment of an appliance format and the high performance of Cisco
®
server hardware.
It includes the following:
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Cisco Prime IP Express application components (DHCP and DNS Authoritative together or DNS Caching
alone), the CentOS operating system v6.x, and VMware ESXi 5 - all preinstalled on the server.
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Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
®
) C220 M3 (one rack-unit [RU] rack-mount server) with an
Intel Xeon 2.30 GHz E5-2630 processor, 16 GB of RAM, two 300 GB 15K SCSI drives configured for RAID
1, two PCI Express Gen 3 slots, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces on the motherboard, and dual
power supplies.
Q. What are the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart application options?
A. Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart is available in two different configurations. The first, Cisco Prime IP Express
DHCP/DNS Authoritative Jumpstart includes two Cisco Prime IP Express applications: Cisco Prime IP Express
DNS Authoritative and Cisco Prime IP Express DHCP. The second configuration, called Cisco Prime IP
Express DNS Caching Jumpstart, includes the Cisco Prime IP Express DNS Caching Server.
Q. What are the benefits of Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart is designed to help enterprise network operators address the challenges of
network and device growth, the transitions to IPv6 and virtualization, and the reduction of operating expenses
(OpEx).The solution is fast and easy to implement with low startup costs. DHCP and DNS services can be
immediately turned on, configured, and integrated into the network service for fast time to value. The Cisco
UCS C220 M3 server provides superior scale and performance in a compact form factor, and the application is
preinstalled as a virtual machine, providing support for virtualized data centers. The solution grows with the
business; the appliance ships with 1000 permanent IP node licenses, and customers may buy additional
licenses to support up to 500,000 IP nodes with this single Cisco UCS server. Finally, Cisco Prime IP Express
Jumpstart is an integrated solution from one vendor, on one box - all supported by Cisco.
Q. How many IP nodes are included with Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart for DHCP and DNS Authoritative includes a base license of 1000 IP nodes.
This means that “out of the box,” users can assign up to 1000 DHCP leases and 1000 DNS resource records.
Cisco Prime IP Express DNS Caching Jumpstart includes a single caching DNS license.