Still OT: ASA 5510 Memory upgrade

Just thought I would throw this out there in case anyone finds it useful. The upgrade was successful. The interesting part is that there are multiple iterations of the same motherboard, even before the dual gigabit 5510's were introduced. An older ASA that opened up had a single slot for expansion, only accepting the 512 MB chip listed below. My newer test box had 4 slots. I ended up adding the 512MB chip along with the 256MB one. Boot-up shows 768MB, but a show ver produces the following:

Hardware: ASA5510, 512 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 64MB

And a show memory:

Free memory: 565113520 bytes (105%)
Used memory: 4266724688 bytes (795%)
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Total memory: 536870912 bytes (100%)

Which is obviously pretty sweet. Anyhow, I haven't had any crashes in over 5 day (in hind sight, I could have probably removed threat-detection and skipped the upgrade). So, if anyone is interested in doing the AnyConnect Essentials license or upgrading to 8.2.x, already over the 80% mark on memory, and looking for a cheap alternative for their lab... here you go.

-ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Ryan West
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: OT: ASA 5510 Memory upgrade

As much as I'd love to throw Cisco or one of the many knockoff companies $500 for 512 Megs of RAM, I can't really justify it for a lab ASA. I popped opened the box (which has WAY TOO many screws) and took a peek at the memory. It's from STEC and labeled PC2700E CL2. 5-3-3, short of calling STEC directly and gathering more information, my best guess would be this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820998003

Kingston 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR 333 (PC 2700) Server Memory Model KVR333X72C25/512 - Retail

Has anyone attempted this upgrade with non-"Cisco" RAM? For $20 I'm going to give it shot and I'll let you guys know.

Thanks!

-ryan

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Received on Tue Aug 18 2009 - 14:07:53 ART