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Cisco Cyber Vision Performance and Scale Guide, Release 5.5.x

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Performance and Scale Overview

Performance and scale guide overview
Release 5.5.x planning scope
Release 5.5.x performance and scale updates
Audience and scope

Platform and Center Sizing

Scale drivers
Release 5.5.x platform scale reference
Center sizing factors and tiers
Headroom planning
CVSM scale planning
Global Center scale planning

Sensor, VM, Cloud, and Network Planning

Sensor performance planning
FIPS Sensor constraints
VM and cloud deployment planning
Cloud sizing guidance
FIPS and cloud constraints
Bandwidth and recovery behavior

Performance Validation and Design Guardrails

Retention and data growth
Validate performance before production
Troubleshoot performance degradation
Performance design guardrails

Sizing Examples and Decision Flows

Sizing examples
Center sizing decision flow
Sensor selection decision flow
Global Center scale decision flow

Cisco Cyber Vision Performance and Scale Guide, Release 5.5.x

Performance Validation and Design Guardrails

Updated: April 28, 2026

Overview

Provides performance validation, troubleshooting, retention, and performance design guardrails for Cisco Cyber Vision performance planning.

Retention and data growth

Retention settings, stored-flow growth, and backup requirements affect storage pressure and recovery planning.

Validate performance before production

Validate normal load, peak behavior, recovery, storage growth, and FIPS constraints before production sign-off.

Troubleshoot performance degradation

Check Sensor load, Center resources, synchronization backlog, WAN replay load, and feature-related load when performance degrades.

Performance design guardrails

Use these guardrails to reduce performance risk in Cisco Cyber Vision deployments.

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