topic Re: ASA NVRAM size in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073740#M402986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>NVRAM = Non Volatile Random-Access Memory = Flash</P><P></P><P>Its where the Start-up configuration is stored. (Among other things)</P><P></P><P>Just use "dir flash:" or "show ver" and look how much you have</P><P></P><P>Example from one of our devices:</P><P></P><P>Internal ATA Compact Flash, 2048MB</P><P></P><P>- Jouni</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:26:54 GMT Jouni Forss 2012-10-12T09:26:54Z ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073737#M402981 <P>Hey all,</P><P></P><P>How can I know the NVRAM size of an ASA 5510? (or any other ASA)</P><P>Is there a official doc regarding this?</P><P>Already tried:</P><P>show file system</P><P>show ver</P><P>show tech info</P><P>dir...</P><P></P><P>nothing!</P><P></P><P>Your help please</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:07:40 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073737#M402981 Kfir Mesika 2019-03-12T00:07:40Z ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073738#M402982 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>"show flash" will show you the size of NVRAM on ASA.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:16:19 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073738#M402982 Jennifer Halim 2012-10-11T13:16:19Z ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073739#M402984 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hey Jennifer</P><P></P><P>The "show flash" shows the flash and RAM</P><P>I need to see the NVRAM</P><P></P><P>Is there a technical doc describing it?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:18:12 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073739#M402984 Kfir Mesika 2012-10-12T09:18:12Z Re: ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073740#M402986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>NVRAM = Non Volatile Random-Access Memory = Flash</P><P></P><P>Its where the Start-up configuration is stored. (Among other things)</P><P></P><P>Just use "dir flash:" or "show ver" and look how much you have</P><P></P><P>Example from one of our devices:</P><P></P><P>Internal ATA Compact Flash, 2048MB</P><P></P><P>- Jouni</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:26:54 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073740#M402986 Jouni Forss 2012-10-12T09:26:54Z Re: ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073741#M402988 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It sounds strange to me that Flash and NVRAM are the same</P><P>Is there an official doc about it?</P><P>besides our configuration is small (80K) and we saved about 30 Crypto keys (of 2048K each) and we got an error that our NVRAM is full</P><P>Increasing the flash didn't help</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:54:23 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073741#M402988 Kfir Mesika 2012-10-14T14:54:23Z Re: ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073742#M402990 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yup, that is a known error as there is a limit to the total size of keypairs that can be stored on NVRAM (it doesn't depend on the amount of flash storage that you have as it has a maximum limit within flash for keypair storage).</P><P></P><P>Once you received the error message:</P><P>WARNING: NV RAM will not have enough space to save keypair keyXX. Remove any unnecessary keypairs and save the running config before using this keypair. </P><P></P><P>Then you know that you have hit that limit within NVRAM.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:22:12 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073742#M402990 Jennifer Halim 2012-10-14T20:22:12Z Re: ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073743#M402991 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hey Jennifer</P><P></P><P>Thanks alot</P><P>Is there an official doc about this error? I didn't found it</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:01:12 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073743#M402991 Kfir Mesika 2012-10-17T13:01:12Z Re: ASA NVRAM size https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073744#M402993 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Don't believe there is an official document on this unfortunately.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:35:17 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073744#M402993 Jennifer Halim 2012-10-17T13:35:17Z This is the output of the https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073745#M403001 <P>This is the output of the show file system where you can see the nvram split from flash:</P> <P></P> <H6>File Systems:</H6> <H6>Size(b) Free(b) Type Flags Prefixes<BR /> - - opaque rw archive:<BR /> - - opaque rw system:<BR /> - - opaque rw tmpsys:<BR /> - - opaque rw null:<BR /> - - network rw tftp:<BR />* 256507904 34750464 disk rw flash0: flash:#<BR />262136 191586 nvram rw nvram:</H6> <P></P> <P>how does the system handle the nvram if it is the same flash?</P> <P></P> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:37:55 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-nvram-size/m-p/2073745#M403001 szeledon 2016-08-31T17:37:55Z