ACE License limit

[peter]

Hello all,

We have the current licenses installed on two of our 4710's:

Licensed Feature                            Count
------------------------------------        -----
Compression Performance in Mbps             500
Web Optimization Concurrent Conns.          50
SSL transactions per second                 5000
Virtualized contexts                        5
Module bandwidth in Gbps                    1.0

Can someone tell me what will happen if there is more than 1 Gbps of data requests/responses that need to pass through the ACE? Will it start dropping requests? Will it shape the traffic? Will the performance slow down?

[Eric Rose]

Hello,

When you reach the limits on the ace the ace will start to drop (deny) traffic.

You can take a look at the statistics via resource usage command.

Thanks.

Eric

[peter]

Thanks for the answer. Do you also know if it will tell you that the limit has been reached by a logging string?

[Eric Rose]

I am not exactly sure however it might be a message like this.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/system/message/guide/messags.html#wp1461511

also here is the limit for the infromation about monitoring the resources via the CLI.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/virtualization/guide/config.html#wp1076293