Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.1(1)

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.1(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 and GX Switches

High Policy

Yes

Yes, except on FXP switches.

Requires 32GB of RAM.

Different scale numbers than EX/FX2.

Dual Stack

Yes

Yes

High Dual Stack

Yes

Yes

Different scale numbers than EX/FX2.

High LPM

Yes

Yes

IPv4 Scale

Yes

Yes

High IPv4 EP Scale

No

Only on N9K-C93180YC-FX and N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32GB RAM.

Multicast Heavy

No

Only on N9K-C93180YC-FX and N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32GB RAM.

  • Forwarding scale profiles are supported on the following specific switch models switches:

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-EX series switches

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-FX series switches

    • Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches

    • Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX switch

    • Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX switch

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

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

    • Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX with 32 GB of RAM

    • Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX with 32 GB of RAM

    • Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX

    • Cisco Nexus C9336C-FX2

    • Cisco Nexus C93360YC-FX2

  • The High IPv4 EP profile is supported only on the following switches:

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

    • Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX with 32 GB of RAM

  • The Multicast Heavy profile is supported only on the following switches:

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

    • Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX 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 5.1(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 and GX Switches

High Policy

Note

 

High Policy profile is supported only on the N9K-C9336C-FX2, N9K-C93360YC-FX2 and N9K-C93180YC-EX switches.

  • EP MAC: 16,000

  • EP IPv4: 16,000

  • EP IPv6: 8,000

  • LPM: 8,000

  • Policy: 100,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

Note

 

High Policy profile is supported only on the N9K-C93180YC-FX, N9K-C93600CD-GX, and N9K-C9364C-GX 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

High IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

Note

 

High IPv4 EP Scale profile is supported only on the N9K-C93180YC-FX and N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32GB of RAM.

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4 Local: 24,000

  • EP IPv4 Total: 280,000

  • EP IPv6: 12,000

  • LPM: 40,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 8,000

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

Note

 

Multicast Heavy profile is supported only on the N9K-C93180YC-FX and N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32GB of RAM.

  • EP MAC: 24,000

  • EP IPv4 Local: 24,000

  • EP IPv4 Total: 64,000

  • EP IPv6: 4,000

  • LPM: 20,000

  • Policy: 64,000

  • Multicast: 90,000 with (S,G) scale not exceeding 72,000