Cisco Cisco Prime Network Control System Appliance

If you want to use a Cisco UCS server to deploy a virtual appliance for NCS, you can use the UCS 
C-Series or B-Series. Make sure the server you select matches the processor, RAM and hard disk 
requirements specified in the 

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Non-English characters are supported in Cisco Prime Network Control System, Release 1.0.1.4.

These specifications relating to the number of clients supported on different NCS configurations are 
based on combination of internal lab tests and our experience with large customer installations.

The NCS user interface requires Mozilla Firefox 12.0 or Internet Explorer 8 with the Chrome plugin 
releases or Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m. The Internet Explorer versions less than 8 are not 
recommended. The client running the browser must have a minimum of 1 GB of RAM and a 2-GHz 
processor. The client device should not be running any CPU or memory-intensive applications.

Cisco Prime NCS Low-End Virtual Appliance

Supports up to 3,000 Cisco Aironet 
lightweight access points, 1,000 autonomous 
access points, 1,000 switches, and 240 Cisco 
wireless LAN controllers. 

Supports up to 25,000 unified wireless 
clients, 10,000 wired clients, and 5,000 
autonomous clients.

Processor Cores: 2, at 2.93 GHz or better.

Minimum RAM: 8 GB.

Minimum hard disk space allocation: 200 
GB.

VMware ESX and ESXi Versions (Virtual 
Appliance on a Customer-Supplied Server)

If deploying NCS as a virtual appliance on a 
customer-supplied server, one of the 
following versions of VMware ESX or ESXi 
may be used:

VMware ESX or VMware ESXi Version 
4.0

VMware ESX or VMware ESXi Version 
4.1

VMware ESXi Version 5.0

VMware Tools Version 4.1 is preinstalled 
in the NCS virtual appliance.