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Product Overview

Prime Infrastructure provides a single integrated solution for comprehensive lifecycle management of the wired or wireless access, campus, and branch networks, and rich visibility into end-user connectivity and application performance assurance issues. Prime Infrastructure accelerates the rollout of new services, secure access and management of mobile devices, making “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) a reality for corporate IT. Tightly coupling client awareness with application performance visibility and network control, Prime Infrastructure helps ensure uncompromised end-user quality of experience. Deep integration with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) further extends this visibility across security and policy-related problems, presenting a complete view of client access issues with a clear path to solving them. For:

• An overview of Prime Infrastructure features and benefits, see the latest Cisco Prime Infrastructure Data Sheets.
• Information about frequently used Prime Infrastructure features, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 User Guide.
• Information about features intended for administrators, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Administrator Guide.

About Cisco Prime Infrastructure Licensing

Prime Infrastructure licenses control the features that you can use and the number of devices you can manage using those features. For more information about:

• Cisco Prime Infrastructure license types and how to order them, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Ordering and Licensing Guide.
• How to apply purchased licenses, see the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 User Guide.

Understanding System Requirements

Prime Infrastructure comes in two main forms:

•  Virtual : The Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance is packaged as an Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) file, which must be installed on a user-supplied, qualified server running VMware ESXi. This form allows you to run on the server hardware of your choice. You can also install the virtual appliance in any of 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 Virtual Appliance Options.
•  Physical : The physical appliance is packaged as a rack-mountable server, with Prime Infrastructure pre-installed and configured for you. For physical appliance hardware specifications and capacities, see Physical Appliance Options.

Virtual Appliance Options

During installation, you can choose one of four deployment configuration options. Table 1 summarizes the minimum server requirements for each option.

You can install any of the Prime Infrastructure options as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA), running under VMWare ESXi, on your own hardware. If you choose this implementation, the server that you supply must meet or exceed the requirements shown in the table for the option that you select. Prime Infrastructure is also available pre-installed on Cisco-supplied hardware as a physical appliance. See the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide for more information. For maximum management capacities for each installation option, see Scaling Prime Infrastructure.

Physical Appliance Options

Prime Infrastructure is available on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Appliance. Prime Infrastructure 3.1 is not supported on the PRIME-NCS-APL-K9 (also known as “Gen 1”). Prime Infrastructure 3.1 is supported on Cisco Prime Infrastructure Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based). You can upgrade a Prime Infrastructure Physical Appliance (Gen 2, UCS Based) appliance running Prime Infrastructure 3.0.x to Prime Infrastructure 3.1. The physical appliance specifications are as follows:

• CPU (cores/threads)—10 C/20 T
• Memory—64 GB
• Disk Capacity—4×900 GB
• RAID Level RAID—10
• Disk I/O Speed—320 MBps

Improving Performance on Appliances

For better performance on the Prime Infrastructure Appliance (Gen 2, UCS based), make sure you configure the virtual drive Write Policy to Write Back Good BBU. To configure the virtual drive Write Policy, follow these steps:

 Step 1 Launch the CIMC web interface (see “ Setting Up the Appliance ” in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure Appliance Hardware Installation Guide).
Step 2 Click the Storage tab, click on the SAS Modular Controller name, click the Virtual Drive tab, then click Edit Virtual Drive.
Step 3 Click OK on the dialog box that appears.
Step 4 In the Write Policy field, select Write Back Good BBU, then click Save Changes.

If you are running ESX on custom hardware that has a RAID controller, we recommend you configure the following RAID settings to optimize Prime Infrastructure performance and redundancy:

• RAID 10
• RAID cache of at least 2 GB
• Use write through mode with battery backup

Web Client Requirements

Prime Infrastructure users access the product using a web browser client. Web client requirements are:

• Hardware—A Mac or Windows laptop or desktop compatible with one of the following tested and supported browsers:

Google Chrome 48 or later
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (No plug-ins are required.)
Mozilla Firefox ESR 38
Mozilla Firefox 44 or later

• Display resolution—Prime Infrastructure supports 1366 x 768 or higher, but we recommend that you set the screen resolution to 1600 x 900.

Scaling Prime Infrastructure

prime Infrastructure comes with a variety of server installation options (see Understanding System Requirements). Ensure that you select an option appropriate for the size and complexity of your network.

 Table 2 lists the maximum number of devices, clients, events, NetFlow-related data flows, and other scale parameters for each option. For example, the Professional option can manage 200,000 wireless clients and 50,000 wired clients