Cisco Catalyst Center Third-Generation Appliance Installation Guide, Release 3.1.x

Appliance hardware specifications

Updated: April 3, 2026

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Medium Catalyst Center appliance
Large Catalyst Center appliance
Extra large Catalyst Center appliance

Overview

Provides links to Catalyst Center appliance hardware specifications.

Cisco provides Catalyst Center as a rack-mountable physical appliance with these hardware specifications.

Medium Catalyst Center appliance

This table provides the hardware specifications for the third-generation medium Catalyst Center appliance.

Table 1. Medium Catalyst Center appliance hardware specifications
Feature	Description
Cisco part number	DN3-HW-APL
Chassis	One rack-unit (1RU) Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C220 M6 chassis
Number of cores	32
Processors	Two Intel Xeon Gold 6326 processors.
Memory	Eight 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz registered DIMMs (RDIMMs).
Storage/Disk Management (RAID)	Cisco RAID Controller with 4GB FBWC: 2 x 960 GB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 1 and 2) 2 x 1.9 TB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 3 and 4) 6 x 1.9 TB SSD, RAID 10 (slots 5 through 10)
Network and management I/O	Supported connectors: Two 1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps Ethernet ports on the Intel E810-XXVDA2 network adapter Four 1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps Ethernet ports on the Intel E810-XXVDA4 network adapter Note These ports are active only when NIC bonding is enabled on the appliance. For more information, see NIC bonding overview. One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port (RJ-45 connector) Two 1-Gb/10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (RJ-45 connectors) The dual LAN ports support 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps, or 10 Mbps. They autonegotiate to the correct link speed based on the link partner capability. These connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Catalyst Center: One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector) One VGA video connector port (DB-15 connector) Two USB 3.0 ports One front-panel keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) connector for use with the KVM breakout cable. The breakout cable provides two USB 2.0 connectors, one VGA connector, and one DB-9 serial connector.
Power	Two 2300 W AC power supplies. 1 + 1 redundancy.
Cooling	Eight hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.
Video	The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics controller: Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration DDR3 memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory) Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 2 speed
ACPI	The advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) 4.0 standard is supported.
Integrated Management Processor	Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC) firmware. Depending on the CIMC settings, you can access the CIMC through the 1GE dedicated management port, the 1GE/10GE LOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card (VIC).

Large Catalyst Center appliance

This table summarizes the hardware specifications for the third-generation large Catalyst Center appliance.

Table 2. Large Catalyst Center appliance hardware specifications
Feature	Description
Cisco part number	DN3-HW-APL-L
Chassis	1RU Cisco UCS C220 M6 chassis
Number of cores	56
Processors	Two Intel Xeon Gold 6348 processors
Memory	Twelve 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RDIMMs
Storage/Disk Management (RAID)	Cisco RAID Controller with 4GB FBWC: 2 x 960 GB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 1 and 2) 2 x 3.8 TB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 3 and 4) 6 x 3.8 TB SSD, RAID 10 (slots 5 through 10)
Network and management I/O	Supported connectors: Two Ethernet ports (1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps) on the Intel E810-XXVDA2 network adapter Four Ethernet ports (1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps) on the Intel E810-XXVDA4 network adapter Note These ports are active only when NIC bonding is enabled on the appliance. For more information, see NIC bonding overview. One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port (RJ-45 connector) Two 1-Gb/10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (RJ-45 connectors) The dual LAN ports support 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps, or 10 Mbps. They autonegotiate to the correct link speed based on the link partner capability. These connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Catalyst Center: One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector) One VGA video connector port (DB-15 connector) Two USB 3.0 ports One front-panel keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) connector for use with the KVM breakout cable. The breakout cable provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one DB-9 serial connector.
Power	Two 2300 W AC power supplies. Redundant as 1 + 1.
Cooling	Eight hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.
Video	Cisco IMC provides video using the Matrox G200e video and graphics controller: Integrated 2D-graphics core with hardware acceleration DDR3 memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory) Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 2 speed
ACPI	The ACPI 4.0 standard is supported.
Integrated Management Processor	BMC running Cisco IMC firmware. Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the 1GE dedicated management port, the 1GE/10GE LOM ports, or a Cisco VIC.

Extra large Catalyst Center appliance

This table provides the hardware specifications for the third-generation extra large Catalyst Center appliance.

Table 3. Extra large Catalyst Center appliance hardware specifications
Feature	Description
Cisco part number	DN3-HW-APL-XL
Chassis	Two rack-unit (2RU) Cisco UCS C240 M6 chassis
Number of cores	80
Processors	Two Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors
Memory	Twelve 64 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RDIMMs
Storage/Disk Management (RAID)	Cisco RAID Controller with 4GB FBWC: 2 x 960 GB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 1 and 2) 2 x 3.8 TB SSD, RAID 1 (slots 3 and 4) 8 x 3.8 TB SSD, RAID 10 (slots 5 through 12)
Disk Management (RAID)	Cisco RAID Controller with 4GB FBWC: RAID 1 on slots 1 through 4 RAID 10 on slots 5 through 12
Network and management I/O	Supported connectors: Two Ethernet ports (1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps) on the Intel E810-XXVDA2 network adapter Four Ethernet ports (1-Gbps/10-Gbps/25-Gbps) on the Intel E810-XXVDA4 network adapter Note These ports are active only when NIC bonding is enabled on the appliance. For more information, see NIC bonding overview. One Ethernet port (1-Gbps) dedicated management (RJ-45 connector) Two Ethernet LAN ports (1-Gbps/10-Gbps BASE-T) (RJ-45 connectors) The dual LAN ports support 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps, or 10 Mbps. They autonegotiate to the correct link speed based on the link partner capability. These connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Catalyst Center: One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector) One VGA video connector port (DB-15 connector) Two USB 3.0 ports One front-panel keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) connector for use with the KVM breakout cable. The breakout cable provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one DB-9 serial connector.
Power	Two 2300 W AC power supplies 1 + 1 redundancy
Cooling	Six hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.
Video	Cisco IMC provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics controller: Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration Embedded DDR memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory) Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 1 speed
ACPI	The ACPI 4.0 standard is supported.
Integrated Management Processor	BMC running Cisco IMC firmware. Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the 1GE dedicated management port, the 1GE/10GE LOM ports, or a Cisco VIC.

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