Does ISE support redundancy of Virtual and Physical(3595) appliance?

[yuogawa]

Hi team,

Does ISE support redundancy of Virtual and Physical appliance?

Though I could find answer that 3495 is no problem, I would like to know the case of ISE 3595 for confirmation.

Best Regards,

Yusuke

[Greg Gibbs]

Hi Yusuke-san,

Can you please be more specific about what type of redundancy you're asking about? There's a lot of redundancy built into the architecture of an ISE deployment (Primary/Secondary PAN and MnT), redundancy of multiple PSNs using 3rd party load balancers, etc.

[yuogawa]

Hi Greg,

Thank you for your response again.

Specific info is below.

- Small Network Deployments

    ISE server 1 ( Virtual)       --> primary PAN, primary MnT, active pxGrid and PSN

    ISE server 2 ( SNS3595)   --> secondary PAN, secondary MnT, standby pxGrid and PSN

- Virtual appliance is ISE-2.2.0.470-virtual-1.2TB-SNS3595.ova

- Physical appliance is SNS3595 and same version of Virtual

- 3rd party loadbalancer is not used

- Plus license is used for pxGrid

-MAB only. dot1x is not used

Best Regards,

Yusuke

[Greg Gibbs · Accepted solution]

Yes, mixing physical and virtual appliances in the same ISE cluster is supported. Just make sure the virtual appliance is built with the same specs as the physical 3595, including reservations for CPU and Memory as per the Install Guide.

Cisco Identity Services Engine Installation Guide, Release 2.2 - System Requirements [Cisco Identity Services Engine] -…

[yuogawa]

Thank you for your quick and polite response.

Yusuke