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Cis Wide Ar Applicati Services (WAAS) so sco rea ion oftware versi 4.4.1 sup ion pports the W Wide-Area Vir rtualization Engine (WA E AVE) applian models 274, 474, and 574, Wide nce 2 d e-Area Appli ication Engine (WAE) app pliance mode 512, 612, 674, 7341, and 7371, and Network Module En els a k nhanced Wid de-Area App plication Eng (NME-WAE) mode 302, 502, and 522 for the Integra gine els ated Services Router (ISR models 2 s R) 2811, 2821, 285 3825, an 3845, Serv 51, nd vices Ready Engine (SR Service M RE) Modules (SM 700, 900 for all Integ M) grated Ser rvices Route G2 (ISR-G models with Service Module (SM slot 2911 er G2) w M) 1,2921,2951,3925, 3925- and -E 394 3945-E. The NME 502 with the Network Module Adapt (SM-NM 45, 5 M ter M-ADPTR) is supported on all Inte egrated Serv vices Router G2 (ISR-G2 2). WA AAS Expres is an IOS-b ss based WAN optimizatio solution th increases the amount of available N on hat s t ban ndwidth for small to mid dsize branch offices and remote loca ations, while improving a accessibility of any y TC CP-based app plication ope erating in a WAN enviro W onment. Cis WAAS Express nativ uses the capabilities of IOS sof sco E vely e ftware and pr rovides a sm mall-footprin costnt, effe fective soluti that trans ion sparently int tegrates in to the ISR G2 product fam o 2 mily. Cis WAAS Express is su sco E upported on the followin Cisco ISR G2 platform 881G, 886G, 887G, 891, 892, ng R ms: 194 2901, 29 2921, 29 3925, an 3945. Maximum DR 41, 911, 951, nd M RAM suppor on the ro rted outer is need ded. The datacenter component for WAAS Express con e nsists of a Ci isco WAAS datacenter a appliance (So oftware ver rsion 4.2.1 an up), and a WAAS Ce nd entral Manag (Softwar version 4.3 and up) t manage W ger re 3.1 to WAAS Exp press enable routers. ed Cis virtual WAAS (vWA sco W AAS) is indu ustrys first cloud-ready W c WAN optim mization solu ution. vWAA is a AS virt applianc that accel tual ce lerates busin applicati ness ions delivere from priv and virtu private cloud ed vate ual infr frastructure ensuring opti e imal user-ex xperience. vW WAAS runs on VMwar ESXi hype s re ervisor and C Cisco Un nified Compu Systems (UCS) / x86 servers allo ute 6 owing for an agile, elasti and multin ic -tenant deplo oyment

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The following table describe the capacity guidelines of the va e es e arious devices in different pla acement scenarios. These gu uidelines are bas on certain assumptions about traffic patterns, usage patterns, a sed s applications, p protocols (see Baseline siz e zing ass sumptions as listed in table 3), specific platforms and storage types These assumptions may not match all enterprise e p s. ts env vironments an hence custo nd omers are rec commended to monitor thei r environment and use pilot deploymen or lab o nts eva aluations to ca alibrate their usage according to their act u tual use cases traffic patte s, erns, and other parameters. It is reco ommended to size your WA o AAS deployme considerin peak loads by planning s ent ng some available space for pe load eak sce enarios. The numbers in th table below are per device. Multiple devic can be clus e he ces stered together in order to ach r hieve higher ca apacity num mbers. N+1 clus stering is availa able using the Web Cache Co oordination Pro otocol version 2 (WCCPv2) in nterception mechanism, whic provides bo a linear incr ch oth rease in capacity as well as fa ailure protection Inline interc n. ception provide a simplified d es deployment mod for the bran or Data Center along with failure protect del nch h tion, when add itional capacity is required W y WCCP interception should be considered. Policy Based Routin (PBR) provides high availa ng ability only and does not prov d vide load-balancing. When us sing vWAAS with Nexus 1000V and vPATH in h V nterception load balancing can be achieved by defining mu d ultiple port prof files.
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Imp portant Note: Cisco WAAS devices are not limited to a spe C ecific WAN link capacity by a license. The n k numbers specif fied below are based on aver rage typical loa assumptions (table 3). Limitations are bas on static s ad s sed system resource limitations an dynamic nd load factors. Dyna d amic load factors are based on specific use case scenarios therefore cap s, pacity may be higher or lower depending r on a actual use. Ad dditionally, Cisc WAAS will continue to optim co mize connectio up to the ra ons ated connection capacity. Be n eyond this cap pacity, existing active connections will contin to be optim nue mized, and new connections w be handled as pass-throug with no will gh opti imization until the load applied to the device falls below the rated capacit t e e ty. portant Note: Performance Tuning For Hig WAN Band P T gh dwidth Branch Offices h Imp Cisc WAAS combines Layer-4 TCP optimizati co T ions with Layer Application Optimizers (AO for various protocols inclu r-7 Os) s uding CIFS. For some branch offices with hig WAN bandw o gh width (ex. above 50 Mbps), if t native laten is low (ex. b e the ncy below 20 ms R RTT), dep pending on the number of use sessions and data patterns, applying Laye er d er-4 optimizatio alone may provide optima levels of ons al roduction load to determine th perf formance. In su cases, we recommend measuring end-u uch m user response times under pr he app propriate operational state for the AOs and sizing. s Imp portant Note: Performance Tuning For Da Center to Data Center Tr P T ata D raffic Flows Cur rrent WAAS Re eplication Applicator customers are encouraged to apply th Cisco WAAS WAN optimiz he S zation features Transport Flow Optimization (TFO) and Lempel-Ziv (LZ) Compression in WAAS Softw w C n ware Version 4.2 or later for re 2 eplication traffic between c rem mote data cente ers. Cisco WAA Replication Applicator (RA is supported on Cisco WAA Software V AS A) d AS Version 4.0 only and is not y sup pported on Cisc WAAS Softw co ware Version 4.1 or later. Whe customers u en upgrade from C Cisco WAAS Software Versio 4.0 in RA on mod to Cisco WA de AAS Software Version 4.1 or later, policy configuration for RA mode will b cleared. V be

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Tab 1 on the nex page lists the basic sizing guidelines for WAAS devices when operatin in various de ble xt e g W ng evice modes. T These device mod include: des tion Accelerato this sectio describes the performance and scalability characteristic of the Cisco WAAS or on e y cs Applicat device when providing WAN optimizat W tion, application acceleration, and virtualizat n , tion capabilities (according to devices s o ability to support such capabilities) c M s ribes the perfor rmance and sca alability charac cteristics of the Cisco WAAS device when e Central Manager this section descr providing central manag g gement functio for a network of Cisco WA ons AAS devices. T same WAE model should be used for The E Primary and Backup Ce a entral Manager r.

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Table 1. Cisco WAAS Sizing Guidelines WA o G AAS v4.4.1

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Tab 2. Notes From Cisco WAAS Sizin Guidelines WAAS v4 ble ng s 4.4.1
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With virtual blades enabled, the 674-8 8GB connecti count is 4 ion 4000, maximu LAN video streams are 600, and um o DRE storag is 150GB. For customer upgrading from 4.0, DRE disk capaciity is limited to 118GB unle the ge rs f E o ess system is re eimaged. Peer fan-ou is the maxim ut mum number of peers that a device can optimize connections wit Sizing sho r t n th. ould also account for adequate co r ompression history across peers. Devic supporting core fan-out does not imply that the ces g device is to be used as a datacenter appliance. Th WAE-7341 and 7371 are datacenter class appliances. The o a he 1 r WAE-674 may also be used for small datacenters. Smaller mo m u . odels may also be used as core devices in certain o s scenarios. NME-WAE-302 limited to transport lic o cense only (DRE, TFO, PL and can not leverage a LZ) application-specific acceleration n. Minimum memory alloca m ation for a virtual blade is 512MB, howev many ISV recommen a minimum of 1GB of 5 ver, Vs nd m memory. Actual throu ughput will va based on the applicatio traffic patt ary on, terns, and ne etwork charac cteristics. Target WAN bandwidth is not limited in software or by any othe system limit rather it is p N er t; provided as guidance for deployment sizing purpo t oses and is ba ased on possible WAN usa using mu age ultiple TCP co onnections. W WAN link utilization will be determined by comp w pression ratio and client/se erver behavior r. Any system will optimize up to the ma m e aximum of its capacity unti l overload conditions arise During ove e. erload conditions, new connections will not be optimized. Existing con b nnections will be optimized to the greate degree d est possible by the system. Should you need capacity beyond that of a single d y n y t device, multipl devices can be le deployed us sing a load-ba alancing inter rception mech hanism as de escribed abov Planning s ve. should be don with ne some additional capacity allocated for peak load co y onditions. WAE mode 674, 7341, and 7371 utilize RAID-5, and models 5 els , 512, 612, 900 use RAID-1. Values repr 0 resent usable capa acity after RA overhead has been sub AID btracted. Maximum LAN video stre L eams assume a stream bit e trate of 384K bps. For high quality str her reams, the ma aximum number of streams will be proportiona s b ately less. Ma aximum strea ams on the W WAN are limite to the WAN bandwidth ed N of the netwo ork. This valu is applicab only to stre ue ble eam-splitting and not relat to playbac of video-on ted ck n-demand (VoD) that is played back via the CIFS cache. i S WAE-7341 Maximum Op ptimized SSL connections is 9,000, add ditional 3,000 TCP connect tions can be o optimized under this scenario. s WAE-7371 Maximum Op ptimized SSL connections is 18,000, ad dditional 22,00 TCP connections can b optimized 00 be for a total of 40,000 unde this scenar o er rio. WAE-7371 Maximum Op ptimized CIFS connections are 32,000. S s The CIFS Disk partition is used both for dynamic object file cac hing and preD f o -positioning. When Extended Object Cache is enabled on the 674-4Gthe CIF disk capac is increas to 340 GB and when C 6 FS city sed B Virtual Blad is enabled it is increased to 300G. de d When Extended Object Cache is enabled on the 674-8G the CI C 6 IFS disk capa acity is increased to 310 GB. When Extended Object Cache is enabled on the 674-8G+VB th CIFS disk capacity is in C 6 he ncreased to 275 GB and B t the total VB disk capacity is reduced to 30 GB. When the Application Op A ptimizers are disabled the maximum TC connection for the follo CP ns owing platform is as m follow: NME 502 - 500 , NME 522 - 80 512-1GB - 750, 512-3 - 1500, 612 E 00, 3G 2-2G - 2000, 612-4G 6000. In cases wh the WAAS CM manages WAAS express devices the total num hen S s mber of mana aged devices is reduced by 20% com mpared to ma anagement of only WAAS devices (exce for the 274 f d ept 4,474).
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VIR RTUALIZED WAAS SIZING W G Tab 3. Cisco Virtual WAA (vWAAS) Sizing Guide ble AS eline

The above perf e formance res sults are based on bench hmark testing done on fo g ollowing Cisc UCS platform co Cisco UCS C210 M2 with 2 Intel Xeon x5650 CPU (2.67 G U 2 GHZ) with bo DAS and Fiber Chann (FC) oth nel SAN (EM CLARiiO CX4-120) MC ON Cisco UCS B250 M2 with 2 Intel Xeon x5650 CPU (2.67 G U 2 GHZ) with bo DAS and Fiber Chann (FC) oth nel SAN (E EMC CLARiiO CX4-120) ON

Wh running vWAAS on other x86 platform or stor hen v o rage types it is highly rec t commended to validate t desired d the sizing. Perform mance metrics such as ap s pplication res sponse times and throug s ghput may va when using ary diff ferent storag types and storage pro ge otocols.

ble ing es Tab 4. Notes From Cisco vWAAS Sizi Guideline

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The sizing guidelines are based on no over commitment of vCP g e o PU's. vWAAS req quire thick pro ovisioning of Datastore. Als virtual disk datastore ca be Direct A D so k an Attached Stor rage (DAS) or Fibre Channel (FC) ba ased SAN. Target WAN bandwidth is not limited in software or by any othe system limit rather it is p N er t; provided as guidance for deployment sizing purpo t oses and is ba ased on possible WAN usa using mu age ultiple TCP co onnections. W WAN link utilization will be determined by comp w pression ratio and client/se erver behavior r. Any system will optimize up to the ma m e aximum of its capacity unti l overload conditions arise During ove e. erload conditions, new connections will not be optimized. Existing con b nnections will be optimized to the greate degree d est possible by the system. Should you need scalability beyond the capacity of a single device, multiple d y n e devices can be deployed d. Actual throu ughput will va based on the applicatio traffic patte ary t on, erns, and net twork charact teristics.
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Peer fan-ou is the maxim ut mum number of peers that a device can optimize connections wit Sizing sho r t n th. ould also account for adequate co r ompression history across peers.

WA AAS EXPRES SIZING SS Tab 5. Cisco WAAS Expr ble ress Sizing Guidelines IO 15.1(3)T G OS

Tab 6. Notes From Cisco WAAS Expr ble ress Sizing Guidelines IOS 15.1(3)T G T
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DRE cache is implemented in memor e ry. WAAS Express requires maximum memory on the router. s e Any system will optimize up to the ma m e aximum of its capacity unti l overload conditions arise During ove e. erload conditions, new connections will not be optimized. Existing con b nnections will be optimized to the greate degree d est possible by the system. y Target WAN bandwidth is not limited in software or by any othe system limit but is rather provided as guidance N er t, s for deploym ment sizing pu urposes. 1905/1921 routers have fixed, non-ex xpandable me emory. DRE is disabled on these platfor s n rms.

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BA ASELINE SIZING ASSUMP PTIONS Tab 3 specifies the typical user load definition, and other considera ble s u ations that we used to ca ere alculate these sizing e guid delines. Adju ustment of the variables may or may not impact the performanc and scalab ese e ce bility sizing me etrics as pre esented above e. Imp portant Note When usin Virtual Des ng sktops (VDI) th number of concurrent o he f optimized TCP connections per user P may be reduced to 1 TCP con nnection. ble ine ssumptions Tab 3. Baseli Sizing As Item m Con ncurrent optim mized TCP co onnections pe user er Des sired compres ssion history per site Ave erage video stream bitrate s Num mber of concurrent video streams per user s u Num mber of concurrent TCP co onnection for an Outlook client per Exch c hange server r API ATION OPTIM MIZER (AO) CONSIDERAT C TIONS MA APPLICA An Outlook clien may open multiple TCP connections to the servernt m c t -with shared c context (for ex xample-client may send t t a quest from th e object throu a differen TCP conne ugh nt ection). an open request on one TCP connection and a read req Dep pending on Outlook/Windo version - during activity (e.g. while s O ows sending/receiving e-mail) a client may u 3 or use more open TCP connections per exchange server e t As single Outlook client may be connected simultaneous to different servers-for e k b sly example priva folders an public ate nd fold ders. This must be taken in considerat nto tion. Wh first client connections arrive for an Exchange Se hen erver the MAP AO reserve resources for 0.5 additio PI es onal con nnections, by default, which will be available to use during system (TFO) overlo d m oad. V Value 10 3 days 384 4Kbps 1 3

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