topic Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix in Wireless

9800-CL on Nutanix

thenetadmin — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 15:54:27 GMT

Hi,

Does 9800-CL wireless controller will work on Nutanix? I didn't find any official supporting document.

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Mark Elsen — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:05:07 GMT

- If an underlying supported hypervisor is being used then it will work :
Ref : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/catalyst-9800-cl-wireless-controller-cloud/nb-06-cat9800-cl-cloud-wirel-data-sheet-ctp-en.html (Table 2)
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Hypervisors and cloud providers supported

ESXi 6.0/6.5/6.7, KVM, Hyper-V, NFVIS

AWS, GCP, Azure

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

thenetadmin — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:16:52 GMT

Thank you @Mark Elsen

KVM qcow2 images are supported on Nutanix. Does Cisco TAC will support if there are technical issues post deployment?

With vWLC 9800-CL with 300+ APs, any specific limitations or performance considerations, I should be aware of when scaling to this size.

Any caveats with specific features?Any limitation on throughput?

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Mark Elsen — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:29:16 GMT

>...Does Cisco TAC will support if there are technical issues post deployment?
-If a supported environment is being used : yes

>...With vWLC 9800-CL with 300+ APs, any specific limitations or performance considerations, I should be aware of when scaling to this size.
Ref : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/catalyst-9800-cl-wireless-controller-cloud/nb-06-cat9800-cl-cloud-wirel-data-sheet-ctp-en.html
- Start reading from : Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL for private cloud to get an idea of performance and throughput parameters

>...Any caveats with specific features?Any limitation on throughput?
- I have no Nutanix specific info's on that , perhaps discuss with a local reseller ,

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Mark Elsen — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 18:43:42 GMT

- Beside earlier replies I would also like to point out that the various 9800-CL images can be downloaded without a service contract ; that give you the opportunity to test a basic deployment of for instance a qcow2 image on Nutanix. Check if you can get a deployment and or installation started without fatal hazards. It's a good check to start with ,

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

thenetadmin — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 06:38:10 GMT

Is it still valid that 9800-CLs in an HA SSO need to be on the same physical host?

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Mark Elsen — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 06:51:50 GMT

- They don't but there are advanced gotchas that may come up if they are not on the same physical host ; such as that the in between switches must use the same vlan tagging , for the various networks (vlans/subnets) defined in the controllers ,

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

SlaSla — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:39:35 GMT

Hi,

have you been able to successfully deploy a 9800-CL on Nutanix-AHV at the end?

I understand that AHV supports .qcow2 as it´s based on KVM.

I have to migrate a 9800-CL HA pair from Nutanix-VmWare to Nutanix-AHV and any experiences from the community would be highly appreciated.

For me it would be interesting to know, if there is a way for migrating the VMs from Vmware to AHV or do I need

to do a fresh install and importing the configuration?

Thanks

Steven

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Mark Elsen — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:27:31 GMT

- @SlaSla I don't think Nutanix is supported because it is not mentioned in https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/c9800-cl-dg.html

+ Anyway if there is a business dependence then consider creating a TAC case and asking the question mandatory.
So you can have an authoritative answer from Cisco (too)

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

mpichlbauer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:20:48 GMT

were anyone successful with deploying the 9800 on nutanix?

Re: 9800-CL on Nutanix

Saikat Nandy — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:46:13 GMT

9800 on Nutanix is not supported, so far. It is in the roadmap but no ETA.