Question

A network engineer deploys two Cisco ISE nodes in a small deployment. Both nodes have the PAN and MnT personas enabled, and both also run the PSN persona to authenticate endpoints. Management wants to know the maximum number of concurrent active endpoints this specific configuration can support, and whether it can be increased later without redesigning the deployment. Which statement correctly describes this deployment type and its scaling behavior?

Accepted Answer

This is a hybrid two-node deployment; each node running all personas caps the deployment at a lower shared session limit, and scaling requires dedicating the two nodes to Admin/Monitoring and adding separate PSNs.

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This is a fully distributed deployment that already supports the maximum platform session count and can scale simply by increasing the VM's assigned memory.

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This is a standalone deployment, and adding a second node with all personas automatically doubles the supported session count with no further changes.

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This is a dedicated PSN cluster; because no node runs the PAN persona, session capacity is unlimited until pxGrid is enabled.