Limits and Throughput's of vCloud Network and Security components:
Details of Edge instances used in performance metrics comparison
|
Edge (Compact) |
Edge (Large) |
Edge (X-Large) |
| vCPU |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Memory |
256 MB |
1 GB |
8 GB |
| Disk |
320 MB |
320 MB |
4.4 GB |
Tested Limits
The following table provides information on the tested soft limits per vCloud Networking and Security Manager:
Note: These soft limits can be exceeded on a per feature basis depending on the resources and the set of features in use.
| Limit |
vCloud Networking and Security Manager |
| Number of Edge HA appliances |
2,000 Compact / Large Edges or 1,000 X-Large Edges |
| Number of clusters |
8 |
| Number of hosts with Edge in use |
256 (8 clusters * 32 hosts) |
| Number of hosts in inventory |
400 |
| Number of virtual machines |
15000 total virtual machines, 5000 powered on |
| Number of networks |
5000 VXLANs |
| Number of firewall rules |
100,000 |
| Number of firewall object groups |
130,000 |
| Number of DHCP static bindings |
25,000 |
| Number of DHCP pools |
10,000 |
| Number of static routes |
100,000 |
| Number of load balancer pools |
3,000 |
| Number of load balancer virtual servers |
3,000 |
| Number of members in load balancer pools |
30,000 |
The following table provides information on the tested soft limits per vCloud Networking and Security Edge:
| Limit |
vCloud Networking and Security Edge |
| Number of interfaces |
10 |
| Number of firewall rules |
2,000 |
| Number of NAT rules |
2,000 |
| Number of DHCP static bindings |
25 |
| Number of DHCP pools |
10 |
| Number of static routes |
100 |
| Number of load balancer pools |
3 (Hard limit: 64) |
| Number of load balancer virtual servers |
3 (Hard limit: 64) |
| Number of members per load balancer pool |
10 (Hard limit: 32) |
| Concurrent IPSec VPN Tunnels |
64 |
| Concurrent SSL VPN Tunnels |
25 (Compact), 100 (Large) |
Firewall and VPN Performance Comparison
|
Edge (Compact) |
Edge (Large) |
| Firewall Performance (Gbps) |
3 |
9.7 |
| Concurrent Sessions |
64,000 |
1,000,000 |
| New sessions/second |
8,000 |
50,000 |
| IPSec VPN throughput (Gbps) - H/W acceleration via AESNI |
0.9 |
2 |
Load Balancer Performance Comparison
|
Edge (Large) |
Edge (X-Large) |
| Load balancer throughput – L7 Proxy Mode (Gbps) |
2.2 |
3 |
| Load balancer connections / sec – L7 Proxy Mode |
46,000 |
50,000 |
| Load balancer concurrent connections – L7 Proxy Mode |
8,000 |
60,000 |
| Load balancer throughput – L4 Mode (Gbps) |
6 |
6 |
| Load balancer connections / sec – L4 Mode |
50,000 |
50,000 |
| Load balancer concurrent connections – L4 Mode |
600,000 |
1,000,000 |
