Cisco Cisco Prime Network 4.2 Installation Guide

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Related Documentation
For list of available Prime Network documents, see the 
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Installation Requirements
This section provides prerequisites and recommendations for the hardware and software you need to support your 
Prime Network deployment. These recommendations are based on the assumptions and target setup for this Quick Start Guide, 
as described in 
 and 
If your 
network setup is not covered by this guide, please see “Installation Requirements” in the 
Note
The recommended hardware options for the target setup for this Quick Start Guide is gateway and unit co-located on 
one server (one-server setup). This option requires the installation of the gateway only, as the gateway acts as both 
gateway and unit.
Gateway Requirements
This section provides the server hardware and other requirements required for Prime Network one-server setup installation. 
The prerequisites are relevant for an embedded database installation, where the Oracle database is installed on the gateway 
during Prime Network installation and is fully integrated with Prime Network.
Table 1
Server Hardware Requirements Matrix for Small-Medium Deployments
Network Size
Processor
EPS
No. of CPU Cores 
(VM or Bare 
Metal)
RAM Disk 
Space
IOPS
Up to 200 
devices
Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 
Note
The gateway has been 
tested on UCS. Servers 
with equivalent 
specifications are also 
supported.
5 actionable,
15 generic 
5
32 GB
340 GB
500 (Read 
80/ Write 
420)
Up to 1000 
devices
50 actionable, 
700 generic 
10
96 GB
15 TB
1200(Read 
300/ Write 
900)