Secure Network Server (SNS) 3415 Appliance capacity

[singhsukdeep]

Hi,

Want to implement certificate based pre -authentication of 1000+ users through radius authentication on ACS server.

Wondering if  ACS servers are capable/sufficient to handle all request and capture so many logs simultaneously.

Model: Secure Network Server (SNS) 3415 Appliance

ACS Version: 5.7.0.15

[Mohamed Abd Elnaser Mohamed Mohamed Ali]

Hi Singh

I think if these 1000+ are concurrent radius authentications then you are approaching the ACS limits.

if not then your ACS can handle it them just fine

here is the ACS RADIUS Performance

ACS RADIUS Performance

SNS-34xx and 35xx appliance performance was done with ACS 5.8 patch 1 as a dedicated authentication node.

Recommend dedicating resources for VM performance equivalent to hardware. 

Authentication В В В В В  Method	Identity Store	Cisco SNS-3415 (Auth / second)	Cisco SNS-3495 (Auth/ second)	Cisco SNS-3515 (Auth/ second)	Cisco SNS-3595 (Auth / second)
PEAP (MSCHAPv2)	Internal	1214	1876	1203	3869
PEAP (MSCHAPv2)	Active Directory	162	241	201	354
PAP	Internal	1310	1911	2857	3891
PAP	Active Directory	549	574	622	784
EAP-TLS	Internal	935	1024	963	1998
EAP-FAST (MSCHAPv2)	Internal	1011	1263	1773	2435
EAP-FAST (MSCHAPv2)	Active Directory	224	368	433	586
EAP-FAST (GTC)	Internal	1001	1223	1689	2345
EAP-FAST (GTC)	Active Directory	221	376	414	510

Please refer for the ACS Performance & Scale below.

https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-68449