Wednesday, May 8, 2013

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