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Chapter: Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 4.2(1)

Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 4.2(1)

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 4.2(1).

The following table summarizes platform support for each forwarding scale profile.

Table 1. Supported Switches

Scale Profile

Supported on EX and FX2 Switches

Supported on FX Switches

High Policy

No

Only supported on 93180YC-FX with 32 GB of RAM.

Dual Stack

Yes

Yes

High Dual Stack

Yes

Yes

Different scale numbers than EX/FX2.

High LPM

Yes

Yes

IPv4 Scale

Yes

Yes

  • Forwarding scale profiles are supported on the following switches:

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-EX series switches

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-FX series switches

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches

  • The High Policy profile is supported only on the following switches:

    • Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX with 32 GB of RAM

  • Switches not listed here do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 4.2(1).


Note

The LPM scale listed in the following table includes any combination of IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes. The total of (# of IPv4 prefixes) + 2*(# of IPv6 prefixes) must not exceed the listed scale.

Scale Profile

Scale for EX and FX2 Switches

Scale for FX Switches

High Policy

 Not supported

Note

 

High Policy profile is supported only on the N9K-C93180YC-FX switches with 32GB of RAM.

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4: 24,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 20,000

  • Policy: 256,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

Dual Stack

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4: 24,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 20,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4: 24,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 20,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

High Dual Stack

  • EP MAC: 64,000

  • EP IPv4: 64,000

  • EP IPv6: 24,000

  • LPM: 38,000

  • Policy: 8,000

  • Multicast: 512

  • EP MAC: 64,000

  • EP IPv4: 64,000

  • EP IPv6: 48,000

  • LPM: 38,000

  • Policy: 128,000

  • Multicast: 32,000

High LPM

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4: 24,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 128,000

  • Policy: 8,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4: 24,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 128,000

  • Policy: 8,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

IPv4 Scale

  • EP MAC: 48,000

  • EP IPv4: 48,000

  • EP IPv6: 0

  • LPM: 38,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

  • EP MAC: 48,000

  • EP IPv4: 48,000

  • EP IPv6: 0

  • LPM: 38,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

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