Can Prime virtual appliances run on the free version of VMWare ESXi 5.1?

[meridianapps]

Our evaluation license for VMWare ESXi 5.1 will expire soon and I'm trying to determine which license I will need to purchase, if any, for hosting the Cisco Prime "small" virtual appliance. Specifically, I wonder if lack of SNMP support in the free version of ESXi 5.1 will be a show-stopper.

I really only need to manage 1 wireless lan controller and 1 MSE. I'm not sure if SNMP is critical for the communication between Prime and these two devices.

Thanks for any advice.

[thefranmanatt]

Hmmmmm  I just installed VMPlayer and a beta copy of NCS.  It installed fine but I am having SNMP problems to my controller, it does talk to my switch though.

[thefranmanatt]

My SNMP problem was related to the NCS being in the same subnet/vlan as one of the controller's

dynamic interfaces.  It is up and working now using VMPlayer.

[meridianapps]

Bump. We're still looking for the answer on this.

[Scott Williamson · Accepted solution]

Yes it can run on the free version. The SNMP support your talking about is for the ESX host only and doesn't relate to the Prime Infrastructure guest.

[meridianapps]

Fantastic, thanks Scott!