ISE software upgrade on 3395 appliances

[dvan]

Hi,

I have a customer running ISE v1.2 on 3395 hardware appliances, and will be helping them upgrade to either ISE v1.3 or v1.4.

The question was raised in regards to hardware requirements for the newer versions, in particular memory (4GB ram) and the number of endpoints supported.

Although the hardware installation guides don’t state any difference in hardware requirements and concurrent endpoints supported for the 3395s, can you please confirm whether there is any extra memory concern in the newer versions, and is there a performance impact in terms of concurrent endpoints compared to v1.2?

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Deployment info:
-Large Network Deployment (2x PAPs, 2x MNTs, 4x PSNs, 4x IPNs)
-Average 7.5k-8k Active endpoints
-All 3395 hardware appliances

Features in use:
-AAA (wired/wireless/vpn)
-Profiling (reporting purposes only)
-Guest Portals
-IPN/iPEP for VPN

Features to be used:
-Profiling (policy decisions)
-BYOD
-Posture (may possibly be introduced)

Thanks,
Denis

[howon · Accepted solution]

Dionysios, there are no differences in terms of performance and scale among versions 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. Same sizing guideline applies to 1.2 & 1.4.

ISE 2.0 release is the first release without 33xx platform support.

Hosuk

[dvan]

Thanks Hosuk.

From cs-ise mailer I have understood the general BU recommended software version to be v1.4 latest patch (for upgrades from 1.2) – is this still the case?

Thanks,

Denis

[howon]

Yes, that is correct. Make sure to install patch 5.

Hosuk

[dvan]

Ok thanks for your help