topic Re: Server requirements for CSM 4.0.1 in Network Security

Server requirements for CSM 4.0.1

jkeeffe — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:06:47 GMT

I've got the CSM 4.0.1 installation guide and am looking at the min/recommended server requirements.

To run CSM 4.0.1 with VMWare, the OS is recommended to be Windows 2008 Enterprise Server (SP2) 64-bit.

Alternate OSs that are supported are:

- Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Server (SP2) 32-bit

- Windows 2008 Enterprise Server (SP2) 32-bit

My server team is telling me that our standard OS to use and support is Windows 2008 R2 Standard (SP2), and they balk at loading up and supporting any other OS. They said that sometimes the documentation, like this CMS 4.0.1 Install Guide, lags behind the actual supported OS for an application, so they asked that I contact Cisco and get the most currant supported OS requirements.

So before I open up a TAC case with Cisco to ask the question, does anyone on this forum know for sure if CSM 4.0.1 is supported, or is NOT supported, on Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server (SP2) - 64 bit? The 'Standard' and 'R2' are the big questions.

Re: Server requirements for CSM 4.0.1

Stefano De Crescenzo — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:59:57 GMT

The support for Win2008 R2 64bit should be added in 4.1 (expected).

For the moment it is not officially supported.

Stefano

Re: Server requirements for CSM 4.0.1

jkeeffe — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:01:51 GMT

How about Enterprise vs Standard? Thanks for your quick response.

Re: Server requirements for CSM 4.0.1

Stefano De Crescenzo — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:18:45 GMT

good question,

so what I can tell you:

1- for sure both are not supported now.

2- I do not see why we would make difference between Standard and Enterprise in the future, so I belive we will support both.

Besides this, I guess we need to wait for the Release Notes of 4.1 to be 100% sure.

If it is not enough I can research a bit more

Stefano