Информационное Руководство для Cisco Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart 8.0
Q&A
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Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart 8.1
Q. What is Cisco Prime
™
Network Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart is a high-performing hardware appliance for Domain Name System
(DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services. The appliance combines the speed,
scalability, and reliability of Cisco Prime Network Registrar, and its robust, world-class DHCP and DNS
servers, with the ease of deployment of an appliance format and the high performance of Cisco
®
server
hardware.
The Jumpstart solution is available in two variations:
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Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart for DHCP and DNS Authoritative
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Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart for DNS Caching
Both appliances include the following:
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Cisco Prime Network Registrar application components (DHCP and DNS Authoritative together or DNS
Caching alone), the CentOS operating system v6.x, and VMware ESXi 5 - all preinstalled on the server.
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Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
™
) C220 M3 (one rack-unit [RU] rack-mount server) with
an Intel Xeon 2.30 GHz E5-2630 processor, 16 GB of RAM, two 300 GB 15K SCSI drives configured for
RAID 1, two PCI Express Gen 3 slots, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces on the motherboard, and
dual power supplies.
Q. What are the Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart application options?
A. Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart is available in two different configurations. The first, Cisco Prime
Network Registrar DHCP/DNS Authoritative Jumpstart includes two Cisco Prime Network Registrar
applications: Cisco Prime Network Registrar DNS Authoritative and Cisco Prime Network DHCP. The second
configuration, called Cisco Prime Network Registrar DNS Caching Jumpstart includes the Cisco Prime
Network Registrar DNS Caching Server.
Q. What are the benefits of Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart is designed to help network operators address the challenges of
network and device growth, the transition to IPv6, and the reduction of operating expenses (OpEx).The
solution is fast and easy to implement with low startup costs. DHCP and DNS services can be immediately
turned on, configured, and integrated into the network service for fast time to value. The Cisco UCS C220 M3
server provides superior scale and performance in a compact form factor, and the application is preinstalled as
a virtual machine, providing support for virtualized data centers. The solution grows with the business; the
appliance ships with 1000 permanent IP node licenses, and customers may buy additional licenses to support
up to 500,000 IP nodes with this single Cisco UCS server. Finally, Cisco Prime Network Registrar Jumpstart is
an integrated solution from one vendor, on one box - all supported by Cisco.