Chapter 1. Overview

Note

Beginning with release 25.0(5), Cisco Cloud APIC is renamed as Cisco Cloud Network Controller.

This guide contains the maximum verified scalability limits for Cisco Cloud Network Controller release 25.0(5):

These values are based on a profile where each feature was scaled to the numbers specified in the tables. These numbers do not represent the theoretically possible Cisco Cloud Network Controller scale.

Note

For Cisco APIC verified scalability limits, visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html#Verified_Scalability_Guides.

For Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator verified scalability limits, visit https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/multi-site-orchestrator/products-device-support-tables-list.html.

New and Changed Information

The following changes have been made to this document since initial release:

Date

Changes

July 30, 2022

Cisco Cloud APIC is renamed as Cisco Cloud Network Controller.

No scalability limits are changed in this release relative to Cisco Cloud APIC Release 25.0(4).

- Scalability Limits

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Scalability Limits

This section contains scalability numbers for Cisco Cloud Network Controller deployments. The scalability limits differ based on whether it's a single cloud site or a multi-cloud deployment.

Single Cloud Site

This section contains scalability numbers for a single cloud site deployment.

Single AWS Cloud Site

Configurable Options

Scale

Number of Tenants

20

Number of Application Profiles

500

Number of EPGs

500

Number of cloud Endpoints

1000

Number of VRFs

20

Cloud Context Profiles

40

Number of Contracts

1000

Number of L4-L7 Service Graphs

200

Number of L4-L7 Services Devices (AWS ALB)

100

Number of Policy Rules

70,000

Number of Regions

16

- Of the 16, only 4 regions can be external connectivity

- All 16 regions can be used for workload deployment.

Number of CSRs per Region

4

Number of CSRs per Site

16

Number of hub networks for Transit Gateway (TGW)

2

Number of Transit Gateways per hub network

2

Number of restricted domains (security domain with restricted role)

32

Single Azure Cloud Site

Configurable Options

Scale

Number of Tenants

20

Number of Application Profiles

2000

Number of EPGs

2000

Number of cloud Endpoints

3500

Number of VRFs

60

Cloud Context Profiles

100

Number of Contracts

1000

Number of L4-L7 Service Graphs

200

Number of L4-L7 Services Devices

100

Number of Policy Rules

125,000

Number of Regions

16

- Of the 16, only 4 regions can be external connectivity

- All 16 regions can be used for workload deployment.

Number of CSRs per Region

8

Number of CSRs per Site

32

Number of restricted domains (security domain with restricted role)

32

Multi-Cloud Deployments

This section contains scalability numbers for multi-cloud deployments. The same scale numbers apply to each cloud site (AWS or Azure) with intersite connectivity provided by the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator. Total number of stretched and non-stretched objects must not exceed the maximum verified scalability limit for that object.

Multi-Cloud Deployments

Configurable Options

Scale

Number of cloud sites

2

Number of on-premises sites

2

Number of managed regions per site

4

Number of CSRs per site

4

Number of CSRs per region

2

Number of Tenants

5

Number of EPGs

250

Number of cloud endpoints

500

Number of VRFs

10

Cloud Context Profiles (VPC/VNET)

40

Number of Contracts

200

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