Cisco APIC installation on VMware stops without warning

[TheAnalyst]

I am trying to install Cisco APIC v 5.2(e) o a VMware virtual machine. The installation starts and after a few secons stops and vm turns off.

I am using aci-apic-dk9.5.2.2e.iso and have given 4 cpus and 16GB of RAM to the vm. What do you think the problem is?

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

hard to say. The iso image is quite large, what machine or you installing this on, and what VMware version ?

[TheAnalyst]

I am using aci-apic-dk9.5.2.2e.iso image. I have VMWare Workstation 16.2.
I resolved to ova file but again VMWare didn't import it but virtualbox had no problem importing the file. I have not turned on the machine yet, though.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

4 processors and 16GB RAM sounds like it should be enough. What is the maximum of RAM you can assign ? The file size is >6GB, how much disk space do you have left ?

[TheAnalyst]

I have 64GB of RAM on my server and 32 should be allocated to other VMs. Disk space is ample.

I read somewhere that I need at least 1 physical APIC to have vAPICs in my network. This might be reason since I am trying to install the APIC on a virtual machine. I had luck with VAPIC but in the end it did not initialize, maybe because of that reason.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

can you actually run the APIC in VirtualBox ? I don't know if I am looking at the correct page, but in the compatibility matrix linked below, neither Workstation nor Virtual Box are listed at all...

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/Website/datacenter/aci/virtualization/matrix/virtmatrix.html

[TheAnalyst]

That's a great reference! Thanks for the link.

I actually tried installing on virtualbox with the same result! I guess, I might try on ESX, though I have installed Windows on my server as the main OS.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

I cannot really test this on my own machine, since I do not have the ISO image you are using. Maybe it is possible for you to post it on a download site ? Probably not completely legal, but if I have the image, I can run some tests here as well.

According to that matrix, it should not run on Workstation or VirtualBox at all...

[TheAnalyst]

I coud get it deon this torrent:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1A16AACE95C0C84F513BF8F6EB2822A74E8FD476&dn=Nexus3K_9K

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

I am trying to get the torrent, it might take a while...

EDIT: I noticed the size of the torrent is 461GB, that does not look right. Did you actually download this one ?

[TheAnalyst]

No, of course not. 

The torrent contains a number of files and you need to download only the mentioned file and skip others.