ACE 4710 License Query

[Paul Pinto]

Good day,

I would just like to double-check a point with the forum on licensing on 4710 Appliance.

If with version 4.2 and above 2Gbps Bandwidth licence is required, the output of the sho license status should be? We have this currently:

ACE/Admin# sh license status                                                      

Licensed Feature                            Count

------------------------------------        -----

Compression Performance in Mbps             2000     

Web Optimization Concurrent Conns.          105      

SSL transactions per second                 7500     

Virtualized contexts                        20       

Module bandwidth in Gbps                    1.0

I believe the bold line should not be 1.0, am I correct?

Thank you in advance.

Paul.

[ajayku2]

Hi,

I am not aware of any condition that version 4.2 should have 2 Gbps Bandwidth.

Please look at the following link:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA4_2_0/configuration/administration/guide/license.html

By default you get the following with ACE4710 ( Which is matching with the info you provided )

Default Feature Capabilities

Table 2-2 lists the default feature capabilities of the ACE.

Table 2-2     Default Feature Capabilities

Parameter	Default
Virtual Contexts	One Admin context, 20 virtual contexts
Bandwidth	1.0 Gbps
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)	7,500transactions per second (TPS)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) compression	2.0 Gbps
Application Acceleration Connections	1001

¹ Application  acceleration connections are fixed at 100 concurrent connections in  software release A4(2.0) for all license bundles.

read below for all possible license for ACE4710.

Information about ACE Licenses

Table 2-1 summarizes the contents of the ACE 4710 license bundles available in  software release A4(2.0) and later. You can increase the performance and  operating capabilities of your ACE by purchasing one of these license  bundles. Note that the number of application acceleration connections is  always 100 regardless of the bandwidth of the installed license bundle.

Table 2-1     ACE 4710 License Bundles  

License Bundle	Product ID (PID)	License File	Description
0.5 Gbps Bundle	ACE-4710-0.5-K9	ACE-4710-0.5-K9	0.5 Gbps bandwidth 2.0 Gbps compression 7500 TPS SSL 20 virtual contexts
0.5 Gbps to 1 Gbps 1 Gbps Bundle	ACE-4710-BUN-UPG1= ACE-4710-01-K9	ACE-4710-BUN-UPG1 ACE-4710-01-K9	1 Gbps bandwidth 2.0 Gbps compression 7500 TPS SSL 20 virtual contexts
1 Gbps to 2 Gbps 2 Gbps Bundle	ACE-4710-BUN-UPG2= ACE-4710-02-K9	ACE4710-BUN-UPG2 ACE-4710-02-K9	2 Gbps bandwidth 2.0 Gbps compression 7500 TPS SSL 20 virtual contexts
2 Gbps to 4 Gbps 4 Gbps Bundle	ACE4710-BUN-UPG3= ACE-4710-04-K9	ACE4710-BUN-UPG3 ACE-4710-04-K9	4 Gbps bandwidth 2.0 Gbps compression 7500 TPS SSL 20 virtual contexts
1 Gbps Bundle (covers two ACE Appliances)	ACE-4710-2PAK	ACE-4710-2PAK	1 Gbps bandwidth 2.0 Gbps compression 7500 TPS SSL 20 virtual contexts