Cisco ISE license (individual) required if both nodes in ISE cluster

[palani2010]

Cisco ISE license (individual) required if both nodes in ISE cluster

[bigevilbeard · Accepted solution]

@palani2010 not a expert here, from what i recall, Cisco ISE license is required for each individual node in an ISE cluster, even if the nodes are part of the same deployment. The Cisco ISE license is node-locked, meaning each physical or virtual machine running Cisco ISE requires its own license and so this is the case regardless of whether the nodes are standalone or part of a cluster configuration.

Hope this helps.

[Arne Bier · Accepted solution]

that's right - the SNS hardware appliances are licensed by virtue of the fact that you paid your $$ for them and the license is perpetual. In the case of VM's, since ISE 3.x, the PAN (in a deployment or a standalone PAN) will make Smart License requests and expect to get a positive reply for the number of VMs in the deployment. If the reply is less than required, then ISE says "insufficient licenses". Each ISE VM, regardless of whether it's running as a PAN, MNT or PSN, needs a VM license. These days the license is called VMC (Virtual Machine Common) - back in the day the VM licenses were Small, Medium, Large etc - the prices would vary depending on required RAM/CPU size.