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Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

danish.saeed — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:22:49 GMT

What are the performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering? Throughput, maximum connection, connections/sec, NGFW services, NGIPS services etc. Is there any document available for sizing?

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

danish.saeed — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:36:49 GMT

These are the scalability numbers i got. With clustering upto 16 ASA units; 640 Gbps (FW)/320 IMIX and 160 Gbps of NGFW/NGIPS. Need the maths for this

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

praetoleiad — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:44:22 GMT

Hi Danish,

Here's the link for the sizing.

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/routers/800-series-routers/firepower-services.pdf

Please rate helpful post and mark answered if the post answers your query.

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

danish.saeed — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:25:51 GMT

Thanks. Can you also direct me to any document discussing clustering for ASA-FirePower.

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

allesmit — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:00:41 GMT

Hey the link appears to be gone. What happened to the sizing guidance doc?

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

Nilo Noguera — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:22:20 GMT

Hi Danish,

Performance Scaling Factor

When you combine multiple units into a cluster, you can expect a performance of approximately:

70% of the combined throughput

60% of maximum connections

50% of connections per second

For example, for throughput, the ASA 5585-X with SSP-40 can handle approximately 10 Gbps of real world firewall traffic when running alone. For a cluster of 8 units, the maximum combined throughput will be approximately 70% of 80 Gbps (8 units x 10 Gbps): 56 Gbps.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa90/configuration/guide/asa_90_cli_config/ha_cluster.html#12518

Re: Performance scaling factors for ASA with FirePower with clustering.

dvarner — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:23:20 GMT

Here is another resource for comparing the ASA models.

Build & Price www.cisco.com/go/asa and then compare models.