Cisco Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation for OpenStack Leaflet
Verified Maximum
Verified Topology
Feature
384
384
Number of leaf switches
10,000
10,000
Number of tenants
20,000
20,000
Virtual routing and
forwarding (VRF)
instances
forwarding (VRF)
instances
50,000
50,000
Segments
1.2 million
800,000
IP routes
300,000
12,000
Virtual machines (VMs)
40
11
Prime Network Services
Controller (NSC)
Controller (NSC)
512
512
Network service nodes
per Prime NSC instance
per Prime NSC instance
Verified Scalability for Cisco DFA Leaf Switch
This table lists the verified scalability for a leaf switch and Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA)
deployment.
deployment.
Table 2: Verified Scalability for a Leaf Switch and Cisco DFA Deployment
Verified Maximum
Verified Topology
Feature
64,000
40,000
IPv4 hosts
20,000
10,000
IPv6 hosts
300
200
Virtual routing and
forwarding (VRF)
instances
forwarding (VRF)
instances
1500
1000
Segments
15,000
1200
VDP sessions
384
380
Layer 2 Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection
(BFD) sessions
Forwarding Detection
(BFD) sessions
Verified Scalability for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation
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Verified Scalability for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation
Verified Scalability for Cisco DFA Leaf Switch