Any progress on vESA on KVM?

[Michael Bale]

It was my understanding this was coming soon (this was a year ago when I heard this).  Has there been any progress on this?  Is this still planned?  Is it coming soon?  Is VMWare still the only option currently?

I also noticed 10.x downloads for vESA are not available, only 8.x and 9.x.

[Ken Stieers · Accepted solution]

As far as I can tell, yes, ESAv is still VMware only...

They haven't released a 10.0 OVM, you have to install 9.7 and upgrade for now... 

[dmccabej]

EDIT: Correction. It's not currently supported on the vESA, but only for the vWSA. 🙂

Thanks!

-Dennis M.

[Michael Bale]

I tried vESA on KVM and it won't even boot.  Was told a KVM version will be coming out soon.  Other platforms support KVM ( think it is web security that does) and ESA was going to.

Being able to use KVM over VMWare would be a big help.

[dmccabej]

Ah yes, you're absolutely correct. It looks to be only supported for the WSA currently.

That's what I get for skimming! My apologies. 🙂

Thanks!

-Dennis M.

[Ken Stieers]

Dennis,

Dig into that doc... On page 2, the only listed vm models/AsyncOS releases for KVM are WSAv.  Nothing is listed for ESAs.

Ken

[Ravi Singh]

Michael,

ESAv is still not supported on KVM. it's only supported on WSAv. I will let you know when it will be supported if get any update on this ASAP

[Robert Sherwin]

ESA on 10.0.1 now supports KVM:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/security/content_security/virtual_appliances/Cisco_Content_Security_Virtual_Appliance_Install_Guide.pdf

[Michael Bale]

This is great news, thanks!

Will give it a test soon, can the config from ESXi virtual appliance be moved over without issues?

[Robert Sherwin]

Should be able to --- would be just the same as standard save/load, migration:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/117803-configure-esa-00.html