Supported scale for OSPFv3 and performance considerations

Scalability of OSPFv3 gets limited by availability of resources like Memory, CPU and hardware tables. While increasing the scale, you need to consider time taken for adjacency formation and route convergence.

The supported scale for OSPFv3 across all VRF instances is as follows:

Table 1. Supported scale across all VRFs
Description Number supported
Maximum number of OSPFv3 VRF Instances 1024
Maximum number of OSPFv3 Areas 1024
Number of OSPFv3 Interfaces 2048
Number of OSPFv3 Neighbors 2048
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 Routes 64k (65536)

The supported scale for OSPFv3 per VRF instance is as follows:

Table 2. Supported scale per VRF
Description Number supported
Maximum number of OSPFv3 Areas 10
Number of OSPFv3 Interfaces 256
Number of OSPFv3 Neighbors 256
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 Routes 64k (65536)