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Cisco Prime Infrastructure Deployment Models

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Standalone: Cisco Prime Infrastructure can be deployed as a standalone Physical/Virtual appliance to

manage the wired and wireless network infrastructure.

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High Availability (Recommended): The Cisco Prime Infrastructure High Availability (HA) implementation

allows one primary Cisco Prime Infrastructure server to failover to one secondary (backup) Cisco Prime

Infrastructure server. The secondary server sizing should be larger than or equal to that of the primary

server in order to take over Cisco Prime Infrastructure operation, in the event that the primary Cisco Prime

Infrastructure system fails. For example, if the primary Cisco Prime Infrastructure server is the Standard

OVA, then the secondary Cisco Prime Infrastructure server must be the Standard or Pro OVA.

In Cisco Prime Infrastructure, the only HA configuration supported is 1:1(Active, Standby) i.e., 1 primary

system, and 1 secondary system.

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Distributed Deployment: Large or global organizations often distribute network management by domain,

region, or country. For reasons of geography, scalability, resilience, or visibility, Cisco customers may

deploy more than one instance of Cisco Pr

ime Infrastructure to manage their network. If you’re one of those

customers, you also need to manage all those instances together as one.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Operations Center enables centralized management of multiple Cisco Prime

Infrastructure instances. Operations Center streamlines how your administrators access and interact with

multiple instances of Cisco Prime Infrastructure. You no longer need to generate reports one by one and

manually consolidate results. Nor do you have to check for alarms at each dashboard. These tasks take

time and may result in human errors. With Cisco Prime Infrastructure Operations Center, you get easier

access to information about the health of your entire network managed by multiple instances.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Form Factors

Cisco Prime Infrastructure comes in two main forms:

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Virtual: The Cisco Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance is packaged as an Open Virtualization Archive

(OVA) file, which must be installed on a user-supplied, qualified VMware ESXi server. This form allows you

to run on the server hardware of your choice. You can also install the virtual appliance in any of the four

configurations, each optimized for a different size of enterprise network. For hardware requirements and

capacities for

each of the virtual appliance’s size options, see

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Physical: The physical appliance is packaged as a rack-mountable server, with Cisco Prime Infrastructure

preinstalled and configured for you. For physical appliance hardware specifications and capacities, see

Server Sizing Matrix

Table 1 should help users to pick the right OVA size image for Cisco Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance.

Note: Compliance is supported on the Professional virtual appliance (OVA) and the Gen 2 physical appliance
based on Cisco UCS

only.