Product specifications

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All listed specs are minimum requirements.
Table 7. Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance Product Specifications
Feature Cisco MSE Virtual Appliance
VMware ESXi version (virtual
appliance on a customer-supplied
server)
VMware ESX\ESXi version 4.1 or 5.0
Cisco MSE High-End Virtual Appliance
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Base Location license: 5000 access points
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CMX license: 5000 access points
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wIPS license: 10,000 access points
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Maximum number of tracked devices: 50,000 (regardless of number of access point licenses)
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Minimum RAM: 24 GB
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Minimum hard disk space allocation: 500 GB with SAS drivers and 1600 I/O operations per second
(IOPS)
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Processors: 16 vCPUs at 2.0 GHz or faster and a passmark (
cpubenchmark.net) no less than 4000
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Cisco UCS
®
ref: Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server or C460 M2 High-Performance Rack Server
Cisco MSE Standard Virtual Appliance
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Base Location license: 2500 access points
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CMX license: 2500 access points
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wIPS license: 5000 access points
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Maximum number of tracked devices: 25,000 (regardless of number of access point licenses)
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Minimum RAM: 16 GB
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Minimum hard disk space allocation: 500 GB with SAS drivers and 1000 IOPS
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Processors: 8 vCPUs at 2.0 GHz or faster and a passmark (
cpubenchmark.net) no less than 4000
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Cisco UCS ref: Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server
Minimum server requirements
Cisco MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance
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Base Location license: 200 access points
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CMX license: Does not support CMX license
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wIPS license: 2000 access points
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Maximum number of tracked devices: 2000 (regardless of number of access point licenses)
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Minimum RAM: 8 GB
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Minimum hard disk space allocation: 250 GB with SAS drives and 900 IOPS
Processors: 4 vCPUs at 2.0 GHz or faster and a passmark (cpubenchmark.net) no less than 4000
MSE Virtual Appliance Reference Hardware Configurations
Table 8. Reference Hardware Configurations
MSE Low-End Virtual Appliance MSE Standard Virtual Appliance MSE High-End Virtual Appliance
Processor UCS-CPU-E5-2609 (qty 1) UCS-CPU-E5-2660 (qty 1) UCS-CPU-E5-2660 (qty 2)
RAM UCS-MR-1X082RX-A (qty 1) - 8 GB UCS-MR-1X082RX-A (qty 2) - 16 GB UCS-MR-1X041RX-A (qty 4) - 24 GB
Disk UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 2, in RAID 1
config)
UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 4, in RAID 10
config)
UCS-HDD300GI2F208 (qty 4, in RAID 10
config)
RAID UCS-RAID-9266CV UCS-RAID-9266CV UCS-RAID-9266CV
Example Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS) configurations that match the minimum requirements:
UCSC-C240-M3L
UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU, mem, HD,
PCIe, PSU w/ rail kit, expdr
UCSC-C240-M3L
UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU,mem, HD,
PCIe,PSU w/ rail kit, expdr
UCSC-C240-M3L
UCS C240 M3 LFF w/o CPU,mem, HD,
PCIe, PSU w/ rail kit, expdr
UCS-CPU-E5-2609
2.4 GHz E5-2609/80W 4C/10MB
Cache/DDR3 1066MHz
UCS-CPU-E5-2660
2.20 GHz E5-2660/95W 8C/20MB
Cache/DDR3 1600MHz
UCS-CPU-E5-2660
2.20 GHz E5-2660/95W 8C/20MB
Cache/DDR3 1600MHz
UCS-MR-1X082RX-A
8GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3-
10600/2R/1.35v
UCS-MR-1X082RX-A
8GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3-
10600/2R/1.35v
UCS-MR-1X041RX-A
4GB DDR3-1333-MHz RDIMM/PC3-
10600/1R/1.35v