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Is C9800-CL Compatible with Vmware ESXi 8.0?

Thelmo
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C9800-CL Datasheet mention compatibility with ESXi 7 but not higher that it.

Our customer adcquire this Controller and last week the DC Team just jump to ESXi 8.0.

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marce1000
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  - It won't be compatible then , officially , it may work, but if there is no confirmation for that platform in official documents then operational behavior can not be guaranteed as correct in all circumstances , which is important to consider , 

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Rich R
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It's specific to the IOS version - you must refer to the release notes for the version of IOS-XE you're running.  But agreed that it looks like 7.0 is the latest they support as even 17.11 still only supports up to 7.0:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/17-11/release-notes/rn-17-11-9800.html#Cisco_Concept.dita_c9f5f62c-3813-4ab2-9365-71d583c3a462

So you'll have to keep that machine on 7.0 until Cisco release a version which supports 8.0

Scott Fella
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You should be fine with anything higher as you can specify the compatibility versions in ESXi.  Why not just spin one up and test it?

-Scott
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Hi Thelmo,

The C9800-CL is officially supported on VMware ESXi 8.0, please see release notes for 17.12.x code.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/17-12/release-notes/rn-17-12-9800.html#Cisco_Concept.dita_c9f5f62c-3813-4ab2-9365-71d583c3a462 

 

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