Chapter 1. New and Changed Information

- New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to the organization and features in this guide from the release the guide was first published to the current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to the guide. Specific details about each change are available in the following sections.

Note

If a release is not listed in this document, there are no changes from the prior release and the same scale numbers and profiles apply. For example, the information listed for Release 4.2(3l) applies to all 4.2(4) and later releases until 5.0(1).

New and Changed Information

Release

New Feature or Update

6.0(3)

For Maximum LPM, added:

- N9K-C93180YC-FX with 32GB of RAM

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3 with 32GB of RAM

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P with 32GB of RAM

6.0(2)

- Added support for forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A, N9K-C93180YC-FX3H, and N9K-C93108TC-FX3H switches.

- Introduced Maximum LPM profile.

5.2(5) and 6.0(1)

Added support for forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus N9K-C9364D-GX2A and N9K-C9348D-GX2A switches.

5.2(4)

Added support for forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus N9K-C9336C-FX2-E switches.

5.2(3)

Added support for forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus N9K-C9332D-GX2B switches.

5.2(1)

Added support for High Policy profile on Cisco Nexus C93180YC-FX3 and C93108TC-FX3P switches.

5.1(3)

Added support for forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus C93180YC-FX3 and C93108TC-FX3P switches.

5.1(1)

Introduced High IPv4 EP and Multicast Heavy profiles on Cisco N9K-C93180YC-FX and Cisco N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32 GB RAM.

5.0(1)

Added support for High Policy profile on Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX, Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2, and Cisco Nexus 93360YC-FX2 switches.

4.2(3l)

Added support for all forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX switches.

4.2(2)

Added support for all forwarding scale profiles on Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX switches.

4.2(1)

Introduced High Policy profile supported on Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX switches with 32 GB of RAM.

4.0(1)

Increased the multicast scale on High Dual Stack profile.

3.2(1)

Introduced High LPM profile.

3.1(1)

Introduced High Dual Stack profile.

3.0(1)

Introduced IPv4 Scale profile.

Chapter 2. Overview and Guidelines

- Forwarding Scale Profiles Overview

- Switch Behavior When Changing Forwarding Scale Profiles

- Guidelines and Limitations

- Switch Operations and Their Effect on Forwarding Scale Profiles

Forwarding Scale Profiles Overview

Cisco ACI and APIC allow you to configure different Forwarding Scale Profiles to suit your topology and deployment use cases. This section describes all Forwarding Scale Profiles and their purpose. Keep in mind, specific profiles may be unavailable in earlier releases or restricted to specific hardware platforms. For detailed information on hardware support and scalability numbers of each profile, see the release-specific chapters.

- Dual Stack—The default profile for all new supported switches that allows both IPv4 and IPv6 configurations.

- High Dual Stack—Provides increased IPv4, IPv6, and policy scale numbers compared to the default Dual Stack profile. This profile supports different scalability limits based on the specific switch platforms.

- High LPM—Provides scalability similar to the Dual Stack profile, but for deployments that require higher scale for longest prefix match (LPM) and lower policy scale.

- High Policy—This profile is similar to the Dual Stack profile but with higher policy scale. This profile has specific hardware requirements.

- IPv4 Scale—This profile is designed for IPv4-only deployments and allows you to configure higher IPv4 scale where no IPv6 configurations are needed.

- High IPv4 EP Scale—This profile is recommended to be used only for the ACI border leaf (BL) switches in Multi-Domain (ACI-SDA) Integration. It provides enhanced IPv4 EP and LPM scales specifically for these BLs and has specific hardware requirements.

- Multicast Heavy—This profiles provides an enhanced multicast scale and has specific hardware requirements.

Switch Behavior When Changing Forwarding Scale Profiles

Each ACI switch has a managed object (MO) called topoctrlFwdScaleProf which describes the existing and configured forward scale profiles on the switch using the following attributes:

- currentProfile, available starting with Release 4.1(1), indicates the forwarding scale profile that is currently running on the switch.

- profType indicates the forwarding scale profile that you configured for the switch.

The following table summarizes the expected behavior when changing the forwarding scale profile on a switch.

Action

Effect

Configured a supported FSP on the switch

The switch accepts the new forwarding scale profile.

The following specific events occur:

- The profType field changes to the newly configured profile

- APIC prompts you to reload the switch for the change to take effect

- After you reload the switch, the currentProfile field is updated to the new profile and the new profile takes effect

Configured an unsupported FSP on the switch

The switch does not accept the unsupported FSP and retains its original existing FSP.

The following specific events occur:

- The profType field changes to the newly configured profile

- The currentProfile field and the currently enabled forwarding scale profile remain unchanged

- APIC does not show the notification to reload that switch

- Whether you reload the switch or not, it will continue to use its existing profile without change.

- Whether you reload the switch or not, the profType field will continue to display the profile you attempted to configure until you manually change it again.

Guidelines and Limitations

- When downgrading to a release that does not support one or more switches in your current fabric, keep the following in mind:

- If you downgrade your fabric to a release where one or more of your current switches are not supported, those switches will become inactive in the fabric.

- If you later upgrade the fabric to a release where the switch is supported again, the APIC will not regain complete details about the switch. In this case, you will need to explicitly remove the switch from the APIC and then re-add it to the fabric.

- When downgrading to a release that does not support one or more of your current forwarding scale profiles, the default forwarding scale profile will be configured on the switch. You must reduce the configurations on the switch to fit the default profile before the upgrade.

- Because the IPv4 Scale forwarding scale profile does not support IPv6 configurations, you must remove all IPv6 configurations from the switches that need to be configured with the IPv4 Scale profile.

- Before switching between forwarding scale profiles, the configurations on the switch must be reduced appropriately and thoroughly verified so that scale parameters of the target profile are not exceeded.

For example, for switch models with EX at the end of the switch name, because the High Dual Stack profile has reduced scale support for contract policies, you must reduce the contracts scale accordingly before deploying that profile.

- Before migrating to minimal tenant multicast scale leaf profiles, such as High Dual Stack, we recommend that you first disable Layer 2 IGMP snooping, Layer 3 IGMP, and PIM-related configurations to prevent having a stale multicast state in your hardware.

- Applying a forwarding scale profile to a node requires a manual reload of that node. Any unsupported switches are ignored.

- We recommend using switch models of same capacity in a VPC pair when enabling scale profiles.

Otherwise, the maximum scale will be defined by the member with lower capacity.

- Members of a VPC must be configured with the same scale profile, however the reload required to enable the configured scale profile can be performed for each member one at a time to avoid traffic loss.

- With the default deny model in Cisco ACI, the configured tenant or VRFs have implicit rules that consume several TCAM entries for each VRF. With an increase in the number of VRFs configured on a single switch, these TCAM entries that are used per VRF also count toward the overall policy TCAM usage.

- Reporting of contract rule statistics is subject to the following limitations, depending on the configured scale profile:

- Contract rule statistics are not reported by switches configured with High Policy scale profiles.

- Beginning with Release 4.1(1), contract rule statistics are not reported by switches configured with High Dual Stack scale profiles.

- For all other scale profiles, the maximum number of rules for which statistics are reported is 25,000

- If you need to clear the configurations on the switch, we recommend using the setup-clean-config.sh -k command. The command will clear all configurations on the switch, except the forwarding scale profile and port profile configurations.

Switch Operations and Their Effect on Forwarding Scale Profiles

This section lists various operations on the switch and their effect on the forward scale profile configuration in releases 4.1(1) and later. We recommend that the following operations are performed during a maintenance window.

Operation

Is Forwarding Scale Profile (FSP) Preserved

Additional Details

Upgrade or Downgrade

Yes, if the particular FSP is supported in target version

The switch will retain its forwarding scale profile if the switch model and the deployed forwarding scale profile are supported on both the current and target image versions except in Release 3.2(4d). In Release 3.2(4d), where the scale profile is not preserved with the upgrade, you will need to reload the switch for the original scale profile to take effect.

If the forwarding scale profile is not supported on the target release, the switch reverts to the default Dual Stack profile.

If the switch itself is not supported on the target release, the switch will become inactive in the fabric.

Reload the switch

Yes

The switch will retain its forwarding scale profile

Clean reboot with -k option

Yes

The switch will retain its forwarding scale profile and port profile configurations, but erase all other configurations.

Enable maintenance mode

Yes

The switch will retain its forwarding scale profile

Commission the switch from maintenance mode

Yes, from Release 4.1(1) and later

For release 4.1(1) and later, the switch will reload with the original forwarding scale profile

For releases prior to Release 4.1(1), the switch will join the switch fabric with default Dual Stack forwarding scale profile. You can then reload the switch for any previously configured forwarding scale profile to take effect

Decommission the switch

No

The switch will erase all configuration, including the forwarding scale profile, and will show up with factory default configuration.

The node serial number and other configurations will still be available on the APIC.

Commission a decommissioned switch

No

The switch will join the switch fabric with default Dual Stack forwarding scale profile. You can reload the switch for any previously configured forwarding scale profile to take effect.

Remove the switch from APIC

No

All configurations are erased on the switch. The switch serial number and all other details are also removed from the APIC

Chapter 3. Forwarding Scale Profile Configuration

- Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using GUI

- Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using CLI

- Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using REST API

- Verifying Forwarding Scale Profiles on the Switch

Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using GUI

The Forwarding Scale Profile policy provides different scalability options. For more information on the scalability options, see the Forwarding Scale Profile Policy Overview section in the chapter for your Cisco APIC release.

This section explains how to configure forwarding scale profiles using the APIC GUI.

Before you begin

- Read through and follow the Guidelines and Limitations section.

- Ensure you have access to the APIC GUI

- Ensure that your switches support the profile you want to configure. For the list of supported switches, see the release-specific chapter.

- Changing the scale profile for individual members of a VPC is not allowed. If members of the same VPC are associated with different leaf profiles, then a new leaf profile should be created with both members and the scale profile applied to it.

Procedure

Step 1

To create the policy, perform the following steps:

1. From the top navigation menu, choose Fabric > Access Policies.

2. In the left navigation pane, expand Policies > Switch.

3. Right-click Forwarding Scale Profile and choose Create Forwarding Scale Profile Policy.

4. In the Create Forwarding Scale Profile Policy dialog, provide a Name, optional Description, and the Type for the policy.

5. Click Submit.

Step 2

To add the policy to a policy group to enable it to be associated with fabric nodes, perform the following steps:

1. From the top navigation menu, choose Fabric > Access Policies.

2. In the left navigation pane, expand Policies > Switch.

3. Right-click Policy Groups and choose Create Access Switch Policy Group

4. From the Create Access Switch Policy Group dialog, click the Forward Scale Profile Policy drop-down arrow and choose the policy you previously configured.

5. Click Submit.

Step 3

To associate the policy group to a node, perform the following steps:

1. From the top navigation menu, choose Fabric > Access Policies.

2. In the left navigation pane, expand Policies > Switch.

3. Right-click Profiles and choose Create Leaf Profile.

4. Enter a name for the profile in the Name field.

5. From the Leaf Selectors table, click the + icon to access the Leaf Selectors table fields.

6. Enter a name in the Name field.

7. Choose one or more switches to associate the the profile from the Blocks drop-down list.

8. Chose the policy group containing your Forwarding Scale Profile Policy from the Policy Group drop-down list.

9. Click Update.

10. Click Next.

11. Click Finish.

Step 4

Manually reload the switch after the forwarding scale profile policy is applied for the changes to take effect.

Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using CLI

The Forwarding Scale Profile policy provides different scalability options. For more information on the scalability options, see the Forwarding Scale Profile Policy Overview section in the chapter for your Cisco APIC release.

This section explains how to configure forwarding scale profiles using the CLI.

Before you begin

- Read through and follow the Guidelines and Limitations section.

- Ensure you have access to the switch via CLI

- Ensure that your switches support the profile you want to configure. For the list of supported switches, see the release-specific section.

- Changing the scale profile for individual members of a VPC is not allowed. If members of the same VPC are associated with different leaf profiles, then a new leaf profile should be created with both members and the scale profile applied to it.

Procedure

Step 1

Enter global configuration mode

apic1# configure

Step 2

Define the scale-profile policy

apic1(config)# scale-profile <scale-profile-name>

Step 3

Set the Forwarding Scale profile type.

You can use the profile-type {dual-stack | high-dual-stack | high-lpm | high-policy | ipv4 } command to set the type:

apic1(config-scale-profile)# profile-type ipv4

Step 4

Return back to global configuration.

apic1(config-scale-profile)# exit

Step 5

Define the leaf policy group.

apic1(config)# template leaf-policy-group <leaf-policy-group-name>

Step 6

Configure the relation between the scale profile policy and the leaf policy group.

apic1(config-leaf-policy-group)# scale-profile <scale-profile-name>

Note

The switches that support the forwarding scale profile policy must be manually reloaded after the forwarding scale profile policy is applied. For a list of supported switches, see the Supported Platforms for Forwarding Scale Profile Policies section in the chapter for your Cisco APIC release.

Step 7

Return back to global configuration.

apic1(config-leaf-policy-group)# exit

Step 8

Configure a leaf profile.

apic1(config)# leaf-profile <leaf-profile-name>

Step 9

Specify a group of leaf switches.

apic1(config-leaf-profile)# leaf-group <leaf-group>

Step 10

Add leaf switches to the leaf group.

apic1(config-leaf-profile)# leaf 201

Step 11

Specify the leaf policy group to be associated to the leaf switches

apic1(config-leaf-group)# leaf-policy-group <leaf-policy-group-name>

Step 12

Exit command mode.

apic1(config-leaf-policy-group)# exit

Step 13

(Optional) Display the current running configuration.

apic1(config)# show running-config
# Command: show running-config scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
# Time: Thu Jul 27 22:31:29 2017
scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
profile-type ipv4
exit

apic1(config-leaf-group)# show running-config leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
# Command: show running-config leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
# Time: Tue Aug  1 11:19:58 2017
leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
leaf-group sampleLeafGrp
leaf 201
leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
exit

Step 14

Manually reload the switch after the forwarding scale profile policy is applied for the changes to take effect.

This example shows how to configure the IPv4 scale profile policy.

apic1# configure
apic1(config)# scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
apic1(config-scale-profile)# profile-type ipv4
apic1(config-scale-profile)# exit
apic1(config)# template leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
apic1(config-leaf-policy-group)# scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
apic1(config-leaf-policy-group)# exit
apic1(config)# leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
apic1(config-leaf-profile)# leaf-group sampleLeafGrp
apic1(config-leaf-profile)# leaf 201
apic1(config-leaf-group)# leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
apic1(config-leaf-group)# show running-config scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
# Command: show running-config scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
# Time: Thu Jul 27 22:31:29 2017
scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
profile-type ipv4
exit
apic1(config-leaf-group)# show running-config template leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
# Command: show running-config template leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
# Time: Tue Aug  1 11:19:44 2017
template leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
scale-profile testFwdScaleProf
exit
apic1(config-leaf-group)# show running-config leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
# Command: show running-config leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
# Time: Tue Aug  1 11:19:58 2017
leaf-profile sampleLeafProf
leaf-group sampleLeafGrp
leaf 201
leaf-policy-group samplePolicyGrp
exit

Configuring Forwarding Scale Profiles Using REST API

The Forwarding Scale Profile policy provides different scalability options. For more information on the scalability options, see the Forwarding Scale Profile Policy Overview section in the chapter for your Cisco APIC release.

This section explains how to configure forwarding scale profiles using REST API.

Before you begin

- Read through and follow the Guidelines and Limitations section.

- Ensure that your switches support the profile you want to configure. For the list of supported switches, see the release-specific section.

- Changing the scale profile for individual members of a VPC is not allowed. If members of the same VPC are associated with different leaf profiles, then a new leaf profile should be created with both members and the scale profile applied to it.

Procedure

Step 1

To apply a forwarding scale profile policy with IPv4 scaling, send a post with XML similar to the following example:

<polUni>
<infraInfra>
<topoctrlFwdScaleProfilePol name=“sampleFwdScaleProf" profType="ipv4"/>
<infraAccNodePGrp name=“sampleNodePolGrp">
<infraRsTopoctrlFwdScaleProfPol tnTopoctrlFwdScaleProfilePolName=“sampleFwdScaleProf"/>
</infraAccNodePGrp>
<infraNodeP name=“nodeProf_101">
<infraLeafS name=“leafS_101" type="range">
<infraNodeBlk name="test" from_="101" to_="101"/>
<infraRsAccNodePGrp tDn="uni/infra/funcprof/accnodepgrp-sampleNodePolGrp "/>
</infraLeafS>
</infraNodeP>
</infraInfra>
</polUni>

Step 2

Manually reload the switch after the forwarding scale profile policy is applied for the changes to take effect.

Verifying Forwarding Scale Profiles on the Switch

This section provides a few commands you can use to verify the forwarding scale profile configuration on your switch.

- Displaying forwarding scale profiles supported on a switch.

switch# cd /mit/sys/configProfile
switch# dir
cfgent-default   cfgent-high-dual-stack   cfgent-high-lpm   cfgent-high-policy   cfgent-ipv4   summary

- Displaying the current forwarding scale profile on a switch.

In the following command,

- currentProfile, indicates the forwarding scale profile that is currently running on the switch.

Note that this field is available starting with Release 4.1(1). In prior releases, you can verify the currently running scale profile only by checking the scale values in the capacity dashboard of the APIC GUI.

- profType indicates the forwarding scale profile that you configured for the switch.

switch# moquery -c topoctrlFwdScaleProf
# topoctrl.FwdScaleProf
annotation     :
childAction    :
currentProfile : sys/configProfile/cfgent-ipv4
dn             : sys/topoctrl/fwdprofile
extMngdBy      :
lcOwn          : local
modTs          : 2019-08-21T13:03:18.185-07:00
profType       : ipv4
rn             : fwdprofile
status         :
uid            : 0

- Display the policy (actrlRule) scale on the switch:

switch# moquery -c actrlRule -x rsp-subtree-include=count | grep count
count : 255000

Chapter 4. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 6.0(3)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for release 6.0(3).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Maximum LPM

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX with 32GB of RAM

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3 with 32GB of RAM

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P with 32GB of RAM

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX or GX2B models with 32GB of RAM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in release 6.0(3).

Note

Except for the Maximum LPM scale profile, 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.

For the Maximum LPM scale profile, the LPM scale listed defines the max values for number of IPv4 plus IPv6 prefixes.

Scale Profile

Scale for EX, FX2, FX2-E, and GX2A Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX and GX2B Switches

Dual Stack

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs:

- GX2A switch models: 2,000

- Other switch models: 800

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs:

- Switches with 32GB of RAM: 2,000

- Other switches: 800

High Dual Stack

- EP MAC: 64,000

- EP IPv4: 64,000

- EP IPv6: 24,000

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 512

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 64,000

- EP IPv4: 64,000

- EP IPv6: 48,000

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 128,000

- Multicast: 32,000

- VRFs:

- Switches with 32GB of RAM: 2,000

- Other switches: 800

High IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

- VRFs: 800

High LPM

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 128,000

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 128,000

- Policy:

- Switches with 32GB of RAM: 32,000

- Other switches: 8,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs:

- Switches with 32GB of RAM: 2,000

- Other switches: 800

Maximum LPM

Note

This profile is not supported on Remote Leaf (RL).

Not supported.

Note

Supported only on GX and GX2B switches.

- EP MAC: 8,000

- EP IPv4: 8,000

- EP IPv6: 4,000

- LPM: 440,000 IPv4 + 100,000 IPv6

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 1,000

- VRFs: 250

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs:

- Switches with 32GB of RAM: 2,000

- Other switches: 800

IPv4 Scale

- EP MAC: 48,000

- EP IPv4: 48,000

- EP IPv6: 0

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 48,000

- EP IPv4: 48,000

- EP IPv6: 0

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

- VRFs: 800

Chapter 5. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 6.0(2)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 6.0(2).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Maximum LPM

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX or GX2B models with 32GB of RAM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

- N9K-C9400-SW-GX2A

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3H

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3H

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 6.0(2).

Note

Except for the Maximum LPM scale profile, 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.

For the Maximum LPM scale profile, the LPM scale listed defines the max values for number of IPv4 plus IPv6 prefixes.

Scale Profile

Scale for EX, FX2, FX2-E, and GX2A Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX and GX2B Switches

Dual Stack

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

High Dual Stack

- EP MAC: 64,000

- EP IPv4: 64,000

- EP IPv6: 24,000

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 512

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 64,000

- EP IPv4: 64,000

- EP IPv6: 48,000

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 128,000

- Multicast: 32,000

- VRFs: 800

High IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

- VRFs: 800

High LPM

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 128,000

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 128,000

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

Maximum LPM

Note

This profile is not supported on Remote Leaf (RL).

Not supported.

Note

Supported only on GX and GX2B switches.

- EP MAC: 8,000

- EP IPv4: 8,000

- EP IPv6: 4,000

- LPM: 440,000 IPv4 + 100,000 IPv6

- Policy: 8,000

- Multicast: 1,000

- VRFs: 250

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

IPv4 Scale

- EP MAC: 48,000

- EP IPv4: 48,000

- EP IPv6: 0

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

- EP MAC: 48,000

- EP IPv4: 48,000

- EP IPv6: 0

- LPM: 38,000

- Policy: 64,000

- Multicast: 8,000

- VRFs: 800

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

- VRFs: 800

Chapter 6. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 6.0(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 6.0(1).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX or GX2B models with 32GB of RAM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 6.0(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, FX2, FX2-E, and GX2A Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX and GX2B Switches

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 IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

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

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- 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

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

Chapter 7. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Releases 5.2(5) Through 5.2(8) and 5.3(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for releases 5.2(5) through 5.2(8) and 5.3(1).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX or GX2B models with 32GB of RAM.

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9364D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348D-GX2A

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in releases 5.2(5) through 5.2(8) and 5.3(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, FX2, FX2-E, and GX2A Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX and GX2B Switches

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 IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

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

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- 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

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

Chapter 8. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.2(4)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.2(4).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX models with 32GB of RAM.

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- N9K-C9336C-FX2-E

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

- N9K-C9358GY-FXP with 24GB of RAM

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9316D-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 5.2(4).

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, FX2, and FX2-E Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX, and GX2B Switches

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 IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

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

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- 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

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

Chapter 9. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.2(3)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.2(3).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX models with 32GB of RAM.

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C9332D-GX2B

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 5.2(3).

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, FX2, and FX2-E Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, GX, and GX2B Switches

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 IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

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

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- 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

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

Chapter 10. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.2(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.2(1).

Note

Switches that are not listed in the following table do not support forwarding scale profiles in this release.

Full scale support for High Policy, Multicast Heavy, and High IPv4 EP scale profiles requires the switches to have 32GB of RAM

Scale Profile

Supported Switches

Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High Dual Stack

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High IPv4 EP Scale

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High LPM

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

High Policy

Note

Full scale for this profile requires FX, FX3, GX models with 32GB of RAM.

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

IPv4 Scale

- Nexus 9300-EX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-EX

- N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-EX

- N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

- N9K-C93180LC-EX

- Nexus 9300-FX2 series switches:

- N9K-C9336C-FX2

- N9K-C93216TC-FX2

- N9K-C93240YC-FX2

- N9K-C93360YC-FX2

- Nexus 9300-FX series switches:

- N9K-C93108TC-FX

- N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

- N9K-C9348GC-FXP

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Multicast Heavy

- N9K-C93180YC-FX

- N9K-C93600CD-GX

- N9K-C9364C-GX

- N9K-C93180YC-FX3

- N9K-C93108TC-FX3P

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in Release 5.2(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, FX2, and FX2-E Switches

Scale for FX, FX3, FXP, and GX Switches

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 IPv4 EP Scale

Not supported.

- 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

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

High Policy

- EP MAC: 16,000

- EP IPv4: 16,000

- EP IPv6: 8,000

- LPM: 8,000

- Policy: 100,000

- Multicast: 8,000

Note

Except FXP switches.

- EP MAC: 24,000

- EP IPv4: 24,000

- EP IPv6: 12,000

- LPM: 20,000

- Policy: 256,000

- 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

Multicast Heavy

Not supported.

- 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

Chapter 11. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.1(3)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.1(3).

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

Supported Switches

Scale Profile

Supported on EX and FX2 Switches

Supported on FX, FX3, and GX Switches

High Policy

Yes

Yes, except on FXP switches, C93180YC-FX3, and C93108TC-FX3P.

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, N9K-C93600CD-GX, and N9K-C93180YC-FX3 switches with 32GB RAM.

Multicast Heavy

No

Only on N9K-C93180YC-FX,N9K-C93180YC-FX3, N9K-C93108TC-FX3P, and N9K-C93600CD-GX switches with 32GB RAM.

- 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

- Cisco Nexus C93180YC-FX3 switch

- Cisco Nexus C93108TC-FX3P switch

- 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 C93180YC-FX3 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 C93180YC-FX3 with 32 GB of RAM

- Cisco Nexus C93108TC-FX3P 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(3).

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, FX3, 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, N9K-C93600CD-GX, and N9K-C93180YC-FX3 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, N9K-C93600CD-GX, N9K-C93180YC-FX3, and N9K-C93108TC-FX3P 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

Chapter 12. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.1(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

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.

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

Chapter 13. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 5.0(1).

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

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

- 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

- 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

- 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 5.0(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

Chapter 14. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Releases 4.2(3) Through 4.2(7)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for releases 4.2(3l) through 4.2(7). Scale information for release 4.2(3j) is the same as Release 4.2(2).

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

Supported Switches

Scale Profile

Supported on EX and FX2 Switches

Supported on FX and GX Switches

High Policy

No

Only supported on 93180YC-FX, 93600CD-GX, and 9364C-GX 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

The forwarding scale profile policy is only supported on the following switches:

Note

Support for Cisco Nexus N9K-C9364C-GX switches was added in Release 4.2(3l). This switch is not supported in the earlier 4.2(3) releases.

- 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

- 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

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

Scalability

The following table provides forwarding scale profiles scalability information in releases 4.2(3l) through 4.2(7). Scalability information for release 4.2(3j) is the same as Release 4.2(2).

Note

Support for Cisco Nexus N9K-C9364C-GX switches was added in Release 4.2(3l). This switch is not supported in the earlier 4.2(3) releases.

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

Not supported

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

Chapter 15. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 4.2(2)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 4.2(2).

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

Supported Switches

Scale Profile

Supported on EX and FX2 Switches

Supported on FX and GX Switches

High Policy

No

Only supported on 93180YC-FX and 93600CD-GX 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

- Cisco Nexus 93600CD-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

- 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(2).

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

Not supported

Note

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

Chapter 16. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 4.2(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

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.

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

Chapter 17. Forwarding Scale Profiles Information for Cisco APIC Release 4.1(1)

- Supported Platforms

- Scalability

Supported Platforms

This section provides forwarding scale profiles hardware support information for Release 4.1(1).

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

Supported Switches

Scale Profile

Supported on EX and FX2 Switches

Supported on FX Switches

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

- 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 4.1(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 Switches

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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