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CSM Performance

pgreene
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My understanding is that the CSM only has a 4Gbps connection to the backplane of the 6500. Does this also mean I am limited to 4Gbps throughput to all of my load balanced servers? This seems pretty limiting considering the capacity inherent to the 6500.

Thanks,

Patrick

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Gilles Dufour
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Patrick,

this is indeed a limitation.

You could however had more CSM.

Each CSM handling a specific service.

You could then increase the throughput up to 16Gbps [max 4 CSM in a chassis].

If that's still not enough, or you don't want to buy more CSM, you can try to implement a direct server return solution.

The Servers would respond directly to the client without going through the CSM.

It requires some special attention in design and config.

How much throughput will you need ?

Gilles.

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