ISE VM - AWS

[VVVENKAT]

Hi All,

I have seen previous posts about ISE VM on AWS : ISEv on AWS

Would like to get a confirmation if installing ISE on a ESXi server in AWS is supported by TAC

Many Thanks

V.Venkata Manikandan

[Nidhi]

ISEv on AWS is not tested and hence not available officially.

. Hence, you might not get TAC support for this.

Thanks,

Nidhi

[Jason Kunst · Accepted solution]

correct there are already some post about it

ISEv on AWS

Please see our ISE Compatibility Guides @ http://cs.co/ise-compatibility to see the complete list of hypervisors that ISE supports by version.

If you install ISE onto one of those supported hypervisors with the required amount of cores, RAM, and disk then it is supported regardless of the underlying physical hardware (Cisco, Dell, HP, Amazon, Azure, etc.).

We don't test all of the Any Server pieces of this. So if you call the TAC saying you are having a problem with ISE then they have to support it. If you ask them about settings, tuning, other issues with underlying infrastructure then likely they will say work with your cloud vendor

[hslai]

AWS is not offering ESXi natively AFAIK. If you are referring to nested ESXi, that is out of scope for our support.

[VVVENKAT]

Thanks Jason , Nidhi and Hsing for the clarification.

Hi Hsing - By nested , are you referring to installing ESXi on a Win server / image and installing ISE on top of it.

[hslai · Accepted solution]

Right. Nested ESXi means ESXi itself installed as a VM and then other VMs hosted on it.

VMware Cloud on AWS | FAQs#compute shows it possible to have ESXi on bare metal on AWS. I can't tell whether customers will allow VM console access as those available via vSphere c# client or web client or remote console app. If you get to try it, please share your results.

[VVVENKAT]

Thanks Hsing. Will definitely update once i get to try it.

Many Thanks

V.Venkata Manikandan

[Kyler Middleton]

Hey V.Venkata, 

Did you have any success with this? Cisco doesn't appear to support ISEv in AWS yet, and I'm trying to find out my options. 

kyler

[Damien Miller]

The only option here is still VMware Cloud on AWS. 

https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

You pay for ec2 baremetal hosts running esxi natively.  It's not cheap though, the minimum is 3 x 512GB hosts with 15 TB nvme storage.  Start from about 100k a year + according to vmware. 

[MR203]

Where did you get these minimum specification for VMWARE install in AWS? 15TB looks too big. thanks

[Damien Miller]

See my reply in your other thread. The specs were what you had to order from AWS/VMware in order to be come a VMware cloud customer. Three baremetal hosts that had 15TB of storage each.

AWS has since change the minimum to a single esxi baremetal host with 512 GB of memory, and 10TB of raw NVME storage.

These specs have nothing to do with ISE, they are merely VMware Cloud specific.