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DNA Center & ISE Capacity Details

AI-Assisted Documentation


Component Platform Location Role CPU Cores RAM (GB) Storage (TB) Managed Devices Managed Endpoints Max APs LISP Sessions RADIUS TPS Profiling Endpoints Current Load Peak Load Utilization % Licensing Annual Cost ($)
DNAC Node 1 DN2-HW-APL-XL New Jersey Primary Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 638 devices 800 devices 8% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC Node 2 DN2-HW-APL-XL New Jersey Primary Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 638 devices 800 devices 8% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC Node 3 DN2-HW-APL-XL New Jersey Primary Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 638 devices 800 devices 8% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC Node 4 DN2-HW-APL-XL London DR Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 0 (standby) 638 devices 0% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC Node 5 DN2-HW-APL-XL London DR Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 0 (standby) 638 devices 0% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC Node 6 DN2-HW-APL-XL London DR Cluster Member 56 512 12 8000 200000 16000 N/A N/A N/A 0 (standby) 638 devices 0% DNA Advantage $X,XXX
DNAC VIP Virtual IP New Jersey Management Access N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A $X,XXX
DNAC Backup NetBackup Appliance New Jersey Backup Target N/A N/A 50 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Daily backup Weekly full N/A N/A 15000
ISE PAN Primary SNS-3695 Mumbai Policy Admin Node 32 256 2.4 Unlimited Unlimited N/A N/A N/A Unlimited 12000 endpoints 15000 endpoints N/A ISE Plus 40000
ISE PAN Secondary SNS-3695 Chennai Secondary PAN 32 256 2.4 Unlimited Unlimited N/A N/A N/A Unlimited 0 (standby) 12000 endpoints N/A ISE Plus 40000
ISE PSN Mumbai-1 SNS-3655 Mumbai Policy Service 24 128 600GB N/A 100000 N/A 50000 5000 50000 4000 sessions 6000 sessions 8% ISE Plus 20000
ISE PSN Mumbai-2 SNS-3655 Mumbai Policy Service 24 128 600GB N/A 100000 N/A 50000 5000 50000 4000 sessions 6000 sessions 8% ISE Plus 20000
ISE PSN Chennai-1 SNS-3655 Chennai Policy Service 24 128 600GB N/A 100000 N/A 50000 5000 50000 2000 sessions 3000 sessions 4% ISE Plus 20000
ISE PSN Chennai-2 SNS-3655 Chennai Policy Service 24 128 600GB N/A 100000 N/A 50000 5000 50000 2000 sessions 3000 sessions 4% ISE Plus 20000
ISE MnT Primary SNS-3655 Mumbai Monitoring & Logging 24 128 2.4 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 500GB logs/day 800GB logs/day 30% ISE Plus 20000
ISE MnT Secondary SNS-3655 Chennai Monitoring & Logging 24 128 2.4 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 300GB logs/day 500GB logs/day 20% ISE Plus 20000
ISE Backup ISE Backup Server Mumbai Backup Repository 8 32 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Daily config Weekly DB N/A N/A 5000
ISE Load Balancer F5 BIG-IP VE Mumbai PSN Load Balancing 8 16 200GB N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 25000
ISE pxGrid Integrated Mumbai Context Sharing N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Real-time Real-time N/A Included 0
Total DNAC CapEx 600000
Total DNAC Annual OpEx 360000
Total ISE CapEx 440000
Total ISE Annual OpEx 180000
DNAC Cluster Details
Network Interfaces Enterprise (VLAN 100) Management (VLAN 101) Cluster (VLAN 102)
Enterprise IP Range 10.252.1.11-13 10.252.1.21-23 10.252.1.31-33
VIP Address 10.252.1.10 N/A N/A
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 10.252.1.1 10.252.1.1 N/A
DNS Servers 10.252.11.100 10.252.11.101 N/A
NTP Servers 10.252.11.130 10.252.11.131 N/A
ISE Deployment Details
Node Groups APAC-MUMBAI-PSN APAC-CHENNAI-PSN EMEA-PSN AMERICAS-PSN
Personas per Node PAN (Admin + Monitoring) PSN (Policy + Profiling) MnT (Monitoring only)
RADIUS Shared Secret Unique per site Unique per device group
pxGrid Certificates Mutual TLS Signed by Enterprise CA
Profiling Enabled on all PSNs CoA enabled
Posture Enabled AnyConnect required
Guest Portal Sponsored Guest Self-Registration

This data table was converted from CSV format for better readability.