A small deployment is one where the topology has 500 Routers, 1000 Switches, 2000 Hosts/VMs(vCenter + NSX), 2 Cisco ACI Controllers(30 switches per Controller), 50 VNFs(Clear Water), 10,000 Notifications and 10 traps per second.

Total Managed Interface and Ports: 18000

Note: 1: A Router has total 20 interfaces out of which 18 are managed interfaces.A Switch has total 60 ports & 1 interface out of 4 ports are managed and 1 interface is managed.A Host has total 2 managed interface.
Note: 2: For Kafka deployment it is recommended to keep the retention period to 2 to 3 days to reduce the disk space growth.
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -1 DCF 4 12 300
Node -1 UI 2 2
Node -1 Kafka 1 1 4
Node -1 Elastic Search 1 1 2.5
Node -1 Redis Cache 1 0.5
Node -1 Total 8 21
Node -1 Recommended 8 22
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -2 ESM 4 10 300
Node -2 IP 4 8
Node -2 SAM 2 2
Node -2 Trap Adapter 1 0.5
Node -2 INCHARGE-OI 1 1
Node -2 MPLS (Optional) 2 4
Node -2 NPM (Optional) 2 4
Node -2 Kafka 2 1 4
Node -2 Elastic Search 2 1 2.5
Node -2 Redis Cache 2 0.5
Node -2 Total 18 37
Node -2 Recommended 16 37
Node -2 Recommended (Without Optional) 12 30
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -3 K4M 4 8 300
Node -3 Kafka 3 1 4
Node -3 Elastic Search 3 1 2.5
Node -3 Redis Cache 3 0.5
Node -3 Total 6 15
Node -3 Recommended 6 16
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -4 vROPS
Note: Refer to vROps documentation to setup vROps.
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -5 vIDM
Note: Refer to vIDM documentation to setup vIDM.