Cisco Enterprise Management 3.X: Prime Infra. 3.x Ordering and Licensing Guide [email protected] (Incl. Smart Licensing update) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] August 2020 TOC How to use this ordering guide • The Cisco Prime™ Infrastructure 3.x, Management 3.x Ordering Guide addresses key use cases and customer situations. • Hyperlinks allow you to quickly get to the information you want, within 3 – 4 clicks • Each use case includes the key ordering steps and the associated bill of materials. • In each use case where you want to upgrade from an earlier version of Cisco® Prime Infrastructure, and need to migrate historical data to version 3.x, we will show you various stages of upgrade paths to follow. Note that customers that do not need to migrate historical data to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x. You can do a fresh installation of it, then export MAPs, device inventory, and licenses from earlier versions and import them into Prime Infrastructure 3.x. You can skip the intermediate steps. • A full list of part numbers (new product SKUs and upgrade SKUs) is provided in the Appendix • A number of footnotes and appendixes provide links to relevant information necessary to install a new version of Prime Infrastructure 3.x or for upgrading from legacy versions • To access information about installation/upgrading instructions please Click here. C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 TOC Cisco Prime Infrastructure Ordering Guide What is new with Cisco Prime™ Infrastructure 3.x (PI 3.x) licensing Ordering Prime Infrastructure 3.x Traditional Licenses (new customers and existing customers) Ordering Prime Infrastructure 3.x Smart Licenses for (PI 3.1 or higher) Upgrading from PI 2.2 to PI 3.x Upgrading from Legacy to PI 3.x (Summary) Migrating from legacy offerings (WCS, LMS) to PI 2.2 to PI 3.x Upgrading from generation 2 to generation 3 of the Cisco® Prime Infrastructure physical appliance Appendices (A-L) A. Prime Infrastructure scale and sizing guidelines G. End-of-sale and end-of-life notices B. Prime Infrastructure 3.x licensing overview H. Using the licensing interface (incl. saving .LIC files) C. Complete list of product and services part numbers I. Obtaining a Prime Infrastructure evaluation license D. Complete list of upgrade and migration part numbers J. Contact information to get help with ordering and licensing E. Using Management Token as an alternative to K. Resources (guides: upgrade, installation) using category-specific licenses L. License application guidelines and Entitlements M. Smart Licensing Update C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 TOC Licensing Overview in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4 TOC Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x Licensing Changes (1 of 2) Traditional Licensing • Cisco Prime™ Infrastructure 3.x (PI 3.x) are now offered under one Cisco Enterprise Management 3.x License • PI 3.x lifecycle and assurance licenses are now combined into a single management license. These licenses are offered on a per-device basis (as in PI 1.x, 2.x) and are NOT node-locked. They are available in single-device increments (no more PAKs of 25, 50, etc.). PI 3.x licenses are now linked to the category or sub-category of network devices (as in Cisco ONE™ Software) Examples include C1-PI-LFAS-AP-K9, C1-PI-LFAS-2K3K-K9, etc. • Customers deploying Prime Infrastructure for the first time should purchase a Cisco Enterprise Management 3.x License as described in this document. • Customers with a valid services contract on earlier versions of Prime Infrastructure (PI 2.x, 1.x, NCS 1.x etc.) can upgrade to PI 3.x at no additional cost. Customers without a valid services contract or with expired services contracts can purchase PI 1.x/2.x to 3.x upgrade licenses and then upgrade the PI 1.x or 2.x to a PI 3.x instance, as described in this document. They MUST attach service contract in this case. Customers with valid support contracts on PI 2.x or 1.x can upgrade to PI 3.x at no cost. • Inline Upgrade from PI 2.x to PI 3.1 is Not supported (Click hereto download the upgrade instructions document) C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 TOC Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x Licensing Changes/Smart Licensing Support • Beginning with PI 3.1 release, Prime Infrastructure licenses can be purchased using Smart Licenses. • For more updates on Smart licensing refer Appendix M • Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.1 and higher will support smart license usage A single instance of Prime Infrastructure can run either in traditional licensing mode or smart licensing mode and not both • If customers are running multiple instances of Prime Infrastructure, they are allowed to transition each of these servers at once or in phases • Customers running two or more instances of Prime Infrastructure in smart licensing mode can use “license pooling” functionality across these servers • For more detailed information Smart Licensing please Click here C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 TOC Licensing Model Overview Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x Lifecycle and Assurance License Lifecycle and Assurance License (QTY. 1 or more) (QTY. 1 or more) (Opt) H/A Lic. (QTY 1) PI Base Lic. (Opt) H/A Lic. PI Base Lic. (QTY. 1) (QTY 1) (QTY. 1) PI Virtual or Physical Appliance PI Virtual or Physical Appliance Collector License (QTY 0 or more) Operations Center Server License (QTY. 1 or more) Lifecycle and Assurance License (QTY. 1 or more) PI Operations Center BASE License (QTY. 1) PI Base License (Opt) H/A License (QTY. 1) (QTY 1) PI Virtual or Physical Appliance PI Virtual or Physical Appliance Notes: • One and only one base license is required for each Prime™ Infrastructure management node (physical or virtual appliance) • A collector license increases a PI node from 20,000 to 80,000 flows per second • Per-device licenses are available in single-device increments C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 TOC Ordering Cisco Prime Infrastructure Traditional/ Classic Licenses (New Customers and Existing Customers Who Want to Add Capacity) C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 TOC Ordering Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.x (Traditional License) Click here Customers purchasing Cisco Prime® Infrastructure for the first time Click here Customers adding new functions or capacity to existing PI servers • Additional capacity - lifecycle and assurance • New functionality - Cisco® Prime Infrastructure Operations Center Click here Customers upgrading from NCS 1.x, PI 1.x, and 2.x Click here Customers purchasing Prime Infrastructure Operations Center C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9 TOC First-time Purchase of Prime Infrastructure (1 of 5) (Traditional License) Before Ordering Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) 1. Download and review the CiscoPrime™Infrastructure 3.x Quick Start Guide (Click hereto download the document) 2. Decide whether to deploy your PI server on a physical appliance or virtual appliance Customers are allowed to move from physical appliance deployment to virtual appliance deployment and vice versa Any Prime Instructure License that work on virtual appliance work on physical appliance and vice versa 3. If you want to download* virtual appliance software (Click hereto download the software, choose the desired version e.g., 3.6) Physical appliance will ship with Prime Infra software pre-installed. 4. Review the Cisco®Prime Infrastructure scale and sizing guidelines (Click hereto download the document) Take an approximate inventory of network devices that you will manage with PI 1. Number of switches, routers, wireless access points 2. Identify other requirements for Cisco Prime Infrastructure deployment (e.g., you may want to segment the network and deploy multiple PI instances to manage different segments; you may want to deploy PI in High Availability (HA)) 3. Decide on the number of PI server instances based on the above guidelines and your requirements. Unless you plan to manage the same number of devices on each server instance, you must create a separate bill of materials (BoM) for each server (explained later) 4. Select the appropriate Management 3.x (lifecycle and assurance) part numbers and the quantity for each PI server based on the number of network devices that the PI server instance is intended to manage C97-735996-04 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10
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