Using ISE 1.4 EVA OVA in production

[paulkho]

Hi Team,

My customer has chosen to deploy ISE 1.4 VM.  Their production VM environment has only 200G free disk space. Both ISE-1.4-3915.ova or ISE-1.4-3945.ova has require minimum 600G disk space. BTW, they have tested ISE 2.0 (which support 200G disk space) but decided to stay on 1.4 for stable. Can I use ISE-1.4-eva.ova in production?

What are limitations of evaluation copy of ova file if adjusting we can adjust CPU/Memory to 8 core/32G? Any functional limitation? Devices limitation?

Can I apply the production licenses to this evaluation copy?

Regards,

Paul Ho

[Timothy Abbott · Accepted solution]

Paul,

Its not recommended to use the evaluation OVA for production purposes.  Since the evaluation OVA has less strict resource requirements, it is intended for lab environments only.  For production deployments,  you will need to build a VM using either the ISO file on CCO and follow the resource requirements or deploying the OVA which configures resource reservations automatically.  Not following either of those methods would lead to an unsupported configuration and deployment issues.

Regards,

-Tim

[paulkho]

Tim,

Can I change the disk space to 200GB when I built the VM through ISO file on CCO? Since the default disk requirement for both ISE-1.4-VM-3915 and ISE-1.4-VM-3945. We only support less than 2,000 in the first phase of this project.

Regards,

Paul Ho

[Timothy Abbott]

Paul,

As outlined in the link I posted, the minimum disk size is 200GB with a maximum of 2TB.  So yes, you can but you will need to manually build a VM template in VMware (again, be sure you're within the requirements) then install the ISE software using the ISO file.  Hope that helps.

Regards,

-Tim

[paulkho]

Thanks Tim. /Paul