Cisco Cisco Security Manager 4.11 Installation Guide

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Deployment Planning Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.11
 
  Recommended Hardware and Software Specifications
These specifications are general guidelines on the proper hardware and software to support such 
deployments based on the number of devices; performance results might vary depending on other factors 
discussed in the 
 section of this document. These hardware and software 
requirements for Security Manager are the same for new installations and for upgrading to version 4.11 
from previous versions of Security Manager. 
VM Support by Operating System
Recommended OS support by VMware ESXi versions are listed in 
Table 3
Recommended OS Support by VMware ESXi versions
Small Deployment with VMware ESXi 5.1U2 and VMware ESXi versions up to 
ESXi 6.0
Recommended specifications for a Security Manager server for a small deployment with VMware ESX 
5.1U2 and VMware ESXi versions up to ESXi 6.0 are listed in 
ESXI Versions
Guest OS
4
4.1
5
5.1

Update 
2
5.1 
Update 2
5.5
6.0
Windows Server 
2012 R2
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Server 
2012 
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Server 
2008 R2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Server 
2008
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes