The following table provides the maximum supported values for each collector instance for different footprints.

Note: For the VM based VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance deployment, the maximum scaling support is 200 K devices, 80 million metrics, and 2 million notifications.
Collector Name Demo (750 devices) 7.5 K and above
Traffic Flows (per second) 1 K 1.25 K - 10 K
IPSLA collectors Maximum of 500 IPSLA devices supported across all footprints.
Supports 32 probes per device.
VMware Aria Operations collectors Maximum of 1K notifications per 5 minutes polling interval. Maximum of 6K notifications per 5 minutes polling interval.
Note:
  • 1 OI Server supports 6K notifications per 5 minutes polling interval.
  • 1 OI Server supports 1 VMware Aria collector
Number of CNFs supported per NFV-SOL collector Maximum of 100 CNFs. Maximum of 20K CNFs.
Note: 1 ESM Server supports 1 NFV-SOL collector.
Number of pods supported per VMware Aria Operations collector Maximum of 750 pods. Maximum of 100K pods.
Note: 1 ESM Server supports 1 VMware Aria collector.
VIMs 50 bono and 50 sprouts services.
Cisco ACI collectors Maximum of 150 switches per ACI collector.
Kafka to Kafka collector for M&R data ingestion 300 K metrics. 6 million metrics.
Kafka to Kafka collector for performance data ingestion 300 K metrics. Maximum limit is 80 million metrics.
Kafka to Kafka collector for Events 7500 events Maximum limit is 10 million events.
Note: For VM Based deployment the maximum limit is 2 million events
VMware vCenter Collector 1 VMware vCenter

400 total VMs

 5 VMware vCenters

2000 total VMs
SD-WAN Velocloud collector

Edge count : 50

Links : 50

Edge count : 6.5k

Links : 13k

Max edges per enterprise : 1800
Syslog collector The collector is able to process 10 syslog messages per second. The collector is able to process 80 syslog messages per second.
SNMP Collector Maximum of 500 SNMP devices supported across all footprint per collector.

System Requirements for Remote Collector VMs

  • The maximum number of Remote data center supported is 150.
  • Per Remote data center (RDC) maximum of 60 collectors can be configured.
  • The latency between Domain Manager VM and collectors running on Remote Collector VM must be between 50 to 60 milliseconds.