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ASA 5520 IPsec VPN Performance

terrygwazdosky
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I have a client that uses the ASA 5520 as both a firewall and VPN termination device.  Day to day VPN usage is 30-50 users and the memory (512 MB) is typically at 50% while the CPU is mostly under 30%.  I've suggested the RAM be upgrade to 1GB.

The client would like to add a large block of VPN users which could see 250-300 concurrent users.  What kind of a system resource hit should the expect with this level of load?

ASA verion is 8.2(2).

Thanks.

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Yudong Wu
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5520 supported 750 vpn sessions. Since VPN traffic is handled by hardware crypto engine, you should not see much change on CPU utilization.