Белая книга для Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0

 

 

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OVA file that can be deployed on ESXi 5.x (ESXi 4.x is not recommended due to file-size limitations). The following 

table lists the hardware requirements for the virtual appliance based on wired/wireless scale. 

4 

12 GB 

300 GB 

200 MB/s 

5 

2 

8 

16 GB 

600 GB 

200 MB/s 

5 

2 

16 

16 GB 

900 GB 

200 MB/s 

25 

5 

16 

24 GB 

1200 GB 

200 MB/s 

25 

5 

*

 Custom Express is not a separate OVA. You can take the Express OVA and customize it with the parameters for Custom 

Express mentioned in the preceding table. 

**

 

Refer to “Logging In to Cisco Prime Infrastructure for the First Time” for more details on calculating IOPS. 

***

 VM

ware refers to CPU as pCPU and vCPU. pCPU or ‘physical’ CPU in its simplest terms refers to a physical CPU core i.e. a 

physical hardware execution context (HEC) if hyper-threading is unavailable or disabled. If hyperthreading has been enabled then 
a pCPU would consitute a logical CPU. This is because hyperthreading enables a single processor core to act like two 
processors i.e. logical processors. So for example, if an ESX 8-core server has hyper-threading enabled it would have 16 threads 
that appear as 16 logical processors and that would constitute 16 pCPUs." So in PI when we say vCPU, we mean Numbers of 
Threads (assuming Hypter-threading is enabled) that are available for execution to the actual VM. So a 2, quad core, hyper-
threading enabled CPUs on the host will give the 16vCPUs to vmware. [2 x 4 (Quad Core) = 8; 8 x 2 (for HT) = 16] It is 
recommended to use CPU of 2.93 GHz or higher. 

● 

If you have been using a Medium OVA from prior versions of Cisco Prime Infrastructure (1.2 or 1.3), and 

have the same number of devices to manage with Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0 without significant change 

in your usage, you can upgrade to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0. You do not have to increase the resource 

pool for the OVA in this case. 

● 

Cisco Prime Appliance is equivalent to a standard virtual appliance for sizing purposes. If you are currently 

using the Cisco Prime Appliance to manage more devices than is supported under standard, and have not 

significantly added more devices or turned on new features, you can continue to use the Cisco Prime 

Appliance to manage these devices. 

Cisco Prime Appliance comes with the specifications shown in the following table: 

8 Cores  
(16 Threads) 

16 GB 

900 GB 
(4x300GB RAID5) 

200 MBps 

25 

5 

The following table shows all the supported browsers that can be used to access Cisco Prime Infrastructure. 

Please use the 

 for the latest client requirements. 

8.0 or 9.0 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or 9.0 with 

(users logging in to the simplified Lobby Ambassador interface do not need the plug-in). 

Firefox 22 or later  Latest Firefox version may be used, but it may not be tested depending on when it was released. 

ESR 10 or 
ESR 17 

ESR is the more stable version with less frequent updates. 

 10 or ESR 17 

). 

Chrome 27 or 
later 

Latest Chrome version may be used, but it may not be tested depending on when it was released.