VM Installation RELH 6 support to ISE 2.4

[Braulio_g]

ISE documentation for 2.4 version states that RELH 7 is recommended, my customer does not have infrastructure for 7 only 6.

im wondering if is still supported.

[Damien Miller]

When you say your customer does not have infrastructure to support RHEL 7, do you mean their VMware ESXi environment doesn't have support? VMware introduced RHEL 7 support in ESXI 5.5 which went end of support in Sept 2018.

ISE does not expose the underlying Redhat OS, so there is no managing/supporting it other than support as a VM on Windows/VMware.

[Braulio_g]

i mean, the appliances are running ESXi version 5.5.0 with RHEL 6

[Arne Bier]

Hi @Braulio_g 

Are you talking about installing ISE on a Linux KVM hypervisor?  I am confused, because in your last post you mentioned ESXi.

Not sure what you mean.  The ISE application itself is treated as an appliance - we don't get to chose the underlying OS (RHEL 7.x) and Cisco maintains all the yum patching via regular patches. You don't need a Redhat Satellite or maintenance etc. Cisco handles all that for you. ISE is a black box.

If you want to run ISE on Linux KVM hypervisor then check out the ISE 2.4 Installation Guide. It says KVM on RHEL 7.0 - Have you tried it on RHEL 6?  I would hope that it's a bare metal server running RHEL and not RHEL on ESXi - nested virtualisation cannot do you any good, unless it's a lab/test environment.

[Braulio_g · Accepted solution]

my customer inventory is 

VMWare vSphere Client Version 5.5.0

VMWare ESXi Version 5.5.0   with  REHL 6

VMWare Hardware Version 8

My question is, if ISE is compatible with  RHEL 6 , or we need to upgrade to   RHEL 7 at least ? 

[Arne Bier · Accepted solution]

Hi @Braulio_g 

Are you saying that you cannot choose RHEL 7 from the list of OS when you create a new VM that you want to install ISE 2.4 on?