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Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro

khalilsoltani47714 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:46:08 GMT

Hello Team,

I downloaded the iso file of Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 and trying to install it in Platform Eve-Ng with VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro.
I followed Eve-ng official website guide: https://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/documentation/howtos/howto-add-cisco-ise/

I am encountering with a problem while installation process.

The following errors are showing up :
***** Auto install is not configured

***** checking for supported platform.

***** Virtual machine host detected

***** Error : unable to determine installation Disk
***** If installing on UCS appliance, please verify a RAID volume is
***** Configured . if installing on VM, only virtual hard disks of
***** type SCSI are supported
***** Exiting Installation

[ 34.296837] System Halted.

I shared with you sceen shoot caracteristique for my laptop

Kindly refer to the attached image for your reference so that you can assess it and show me the solution for this problem

Thanks & Regards,

Khalil

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

Mark Elsen — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:18:43 GMT

- It's not all certain that it could work in such environments (VMware workstation + EVE-NG) ; you could try another ISE version
as mentioned in howto link that you provided

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

khalilsoltani47714 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:24:09 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for your reactivity, I tried with the three versions:
ise-2.7.0.356.SPA.x86_64.iso
ise-3.0.0.458.SPA.x86_64.iso
ise-3.3.0.430.SPA.x86_64.iso
but still i got the same problem

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

Mark Elsen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:23:31 GMT

- You could try to post in https://www.eve-ng.net/forum/ mind you eve-ng is only an emulator , not
everything they say 'may work' (e.g.). Or there could be dependencies on your current system such as sufficient
support for virtualization or other needed resources ,

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

Arne Bier — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:37:11 GMT

ISE will run under EVE-NG. But since ISE will require QEMU to run under KVM, your hard disk for ISE must be a .qcow2 - and you need at least a .qcow2 file that can grow to 300GB. Search the web for "empty" qcow2 template files and load those into the EVE-NG definition for ISE. For ISE 3.2 you can choose UEFI BIOS with SecureBoot off. Make the disk and network use virtio. Job done.

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

sherm1082 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:36:45 GMT

I know this is old but did you ever figure out what was wrong? I am having the exact same issue which is weird because I've installed ISE successfully before on eve-ng.

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

julian.bendix — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 09:46:02 GMT

Unlikely to get updates on old posts .. 😉

Re: Cisco ISE 3.0.0.458 Installation Error on VMware Workstation 15.5

sherm1082 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:53:35 GMT

Thanks. I figured it out not too long after this post. As much as I had convinced myself that I had followed the Eve documentation to the 'T', I missed a crucial step. Once I corrected that, it worked.