Cisco Prime on UCS/VMware
I have provisioned a VMware environment for Cisco Prime. The Network Engineer has already created the Prime 2.1 VM. However the environment created is a 5.5 environment. Now there is some doubt as to Prime 2.1 is supported on VMware 5.5. At present the VM is running. However is there any compatibility/support constrains ? The Servers are C240M3 s.
Regards,
Naleendra
Naleendra,
This is a question to Prime folks, here we'd deal with UCS and vmware compatibility.
That being said, quick google search away I found this for prime 2.1
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2-1/quickstart/guide/cpi_qsg.html#99048
This seems to indicate ESX 5.5 is not among the supported by prime 2.1.
M.
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