Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Verified Scalability Guide, Release 5.x

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Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Verified Scalability Guide, Release 5.x

Contents

Introduction

Configuration Limits for Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Verified Scalability Guide, Release 5.x

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Release Date: December 19, 2014

This document describes verified configuration limits for Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V.

 

Date	Description
January 5, 2015	This document was published.

Contents

This document includes the following sections:

• Introduction
• Configuration Limits for Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Introduction

Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V extends the Nexus 1000V virtual networking capabilities to the Windows Server 2012 virtualization platform from Microsoft. The management component of the Microsoft virtualization solution is known as SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager).

Configuration Limits for Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Table 1 Configuration Limits for Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Component	Supported Limits for Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V
	Per Logical Switch	Per VEM
Maximum Modules	66
Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM)	64
Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)	2 VSMs in an HA Pair
SCVMM Server Datacenters per VSM	1
Hosts	64
MACs per VEM	32000
MACs per VLAN per VEM	4000
Max Fabric Network	2000
Active VLANs across Nexus 1000V logical switch	2000
Max network segment pool	2000
Max network segment	2000
Max system network segment	32
vEthernet interfaces per port profile	1024
Port profiles	2048
System port profiles	32
Max IP pool template	2000
PVLAN	512
vEthernet interfaces	2048	216
Port channel	256	8
Physical NICs	512	32
ACL	128
ACEs per ACL	128
ACL interfaces	2048	216
NetFlow policies	32	8
NetFlow interfaces	2048	216
NetFlow monitors	64
Port security interfaces	2048	216
MultiCast groups	512	512
SPAN/ERSPAN sessions	64	4
QoS policy map	128	128
QoS class map	1024	1024
QoS interfaces	2048	216
QoS match criteria per class-map	32
QoS class-maps per policy map	64