SNS 3615 as PAN with ISE 2.6

[nupur jain]

I am trying to find some information on the number of concurrent sessions supported when we use SNS 3615 as PAN in a dedicated deployment 
All that I have found in this link is about using 3695 as PAN 
https://community.cisco.com/t5/security-documents/ise-performance-amp-scale/ta-p/3642148
This particular deployment requires all nodes to be 3615
3615 as 2* PAN for redundancy 
3615 as 2*MnT for redundancy 
3615 as PSNs 
I am trying to get numbers on the concurrent sessions for the same and also is this a validated design, will it be supported by Cisco TAC?

[Damien Miller]

10,000 active sessions per 3615 PSN.  

I'm not sure if a dedicated 3615 has been tested, I'll chime in but this is by no means an official answer. If we looked to scaling of prior releases, with  dedicated 3595 PAN/MNT's we were able to do 500k active endpoints.  The 3695 has 8,000 more Mhz on CPU and an extra 32 GB.  You would hope it would be able to handle the same, and I'm assuming that 3695's are to reach the 2 million.  Certainly a grey area between 500k and 2 million.  

Using similar logic, the 3615 matches up to the old 3495 appliance.  You were able to handled 250k active endpoints, and each dedicated 3495 PSN was rated for 10k.  

[nupur jain]

Thanks, will look for a more official stance on the same :) 

[Jason Kunst · Accepted solution]

Please take a look at the resources link

It goes to BRKSEC-3432 which had the numbers in different formats

[nupur jain]

Hey,
Thanks for the reply and updating this 😊

But even the session presentation only has numbers for 3655 and 3695 as PAN and MnT
I am looking for the same numbers for 3615 in a dedicated deployment
Do you have any idea on the same??

[Jason Kunst]

There are several slides that showcase the 3615 standalone specifications are 10k endpoints

https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/apjc/docs/2019/pdf/BRKSEC-3432.pdf