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

Vsphere FT - Active
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
SA Domain Manager Failover - Active
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 36
Node -2 Recommended 16 37
Node -2 Recommended (Without Optional) 12 30
Vsphere FT - Active
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 8 16
Vsphere FT - Standby
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -4 DCF 4 12 300
Node -4 UI 2 2
Node -4 Kafka 1 1 4
Node -4 Elastic Search 1 1 2.5
Node -4 Redis Cache 1 0.5
Node -4 Total 8 21
Node -4 Recommended 8 22
SA Domain Manager Failover - Standby
Node(VM) Failover Manager vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Can be accomodated within existing resources
Node -5 ESM 2 10 300
Node -5 IP 4 8
Node -5 SAM 2 2
Node -5 Trap Adapter 1 0.5
Node -5 INCHARGE-OI 1 1
Node -5 MPLS (Optional) 2 4
Node -5 NPM (Optional) 2 4
Node -5 Total 14 29.5
Node -5 Recommended 14 34
Node -5 Recommended (Without Optional) 10 28
Vsphere FT - Standby
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -6 K4M 4 8 300
Node -6 Kafka 3 1 4
Node -6 Elastic Search 3 1 2.5
Node -6 Redis Cache 3 0.5
Node -6 Total 6 15
Node -6 Recommended 8 16
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -7 vROPS 4 16
Note: Refer to vROps documentation to setup vROps.
Node(VM) Product vCPU Memory(GB) Disk Space(GB)
Small Small
Node -8 vIDM 2 6
Note: Refer to vIDM documentation to setup vIDM.