Cisco Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart 8.2 Information Guide
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Q. Can additional IP nodes be added to the 1000 count base license that is shipped with Cisco Prime IP Express
Jumpstart?
A. Yes. If a network has more than 1000 IP nodes, operators can order additional licenses to cover the remaining
IP nodes. Cisco recommends running up to 500,000 active IP nodes for the standard configuration and not to
exceed a 1,000,000 active IP node count on a single Cisco UCS server. For networks with greater than
500,000 IP nodes, Cisco recommends deploying additional appliances for optimized performance. Cisco also
recommends that customers purchase additional appliances for failover situations.
Network settings (lease duration and other lease settings) and performance requirements may affect the total
IP node count.
Q. What operating system runs on the Cisco UCS server?
A. Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart ships preinstalled with the CentOS Linux operating system version 6.x. The
Jumpstart appliance also supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5 or 6, which can be installed on another
virtual machine.
Q. What are the performance expectations?
A. Performance is dependent on a variety of factors. Initial performance testing has shown the following
performance characteristics. Note that these numbers were demonstrated on a system for which few of the
more advanced features of Cisco Prime IP Express were configured (for example, no DHCP lease history, no
DHCP failover). In an actual deployment, performance results will vary from those shown below.
Each of the following tests was run individually - they were not run simultaneously.
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DHCPv4:
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New leases: 4293/second
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Granting leases to returning clients: 19,798/second
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DHCPv6:
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New leases: 1499/second
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Prefix delegation: 3491/second
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Granting leases and prefixes to returning clients: 16,254/second
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DNS Query:
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New resource records: 43,640 queries/second
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Returning resource records: 70,588 queries/second
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DNS Caching:
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Up to 160,000 queries/second