Cisco Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart 8.0 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart
Q. What is Cisco
®
Network Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart is a purpose-built, high-performing hardware appliance for Domain Name
System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP address management (IPAM) (DDI)
services. The appliance combines the speed, scalability, and reliability of Cisco Network Registrar, and its
robust, world-class DHCP and DNS servers, with the ease-of-deployment of an appliance format and the high
performance of Cisco server hardware. The first release of Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart includes the
following:
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Cisco Network Registrar 7.2, CentOS 5.4 and VMware ESXi 4.1 - all preinstalled on the server
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Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
™
) C200 M2 (one rack-unit [RU] rack-mount server) with an
Intel 2.66 GHz 6 core processor, 24 GB RAM, two 300 GB 15K disk drives (RAID 1, yielding 300 GB total
space), and dual power supplies
Q. What are the benefits of Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart is designed to help network operators address the challenges of network
and device growth, the transition to IPv6, 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 C200 M2 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 Network Registrar Jumpstart is an
integrated solution from one vendor, on one box - all supported by Cisco.
Q. How many IP nodes are included with Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Network Registrar Jumpstart includes a base licen
se of 1000 IP nodes. This means that “out of the box,”
users can assign up to 1000 DHCP leases and 1000 DNS resource records.
Q. Can additional IP nodes be added to the 1000 count base license that is shipped with Cisco Network Registrar
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 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.
Information concerning licensing for additional IP nodes can be found in the Cisco Network Registrar
datasheet at