Supported devices, hypervisor and persona for multitenancy

Updated: June 21, 2026

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Describes the platforms, device types, hypervisors, and persona roles supported in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN multitenancy deployments.

The following Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN edge devices support multitenancy.

Supported devices

Table 1. Supported devices
Platform	Device Models
Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN device	Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Cisco ISR 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco ISR 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Cisco ENCS Platforms
Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways	(From Cisco IOS CG Release 17.14.1 and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.14.1) CG418-E CG522-E

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Supported hypervisors for multitenancy

VMware ESXi 6.7 or later
KVM
AWS (cloud-hosted and managed by Cisco CloudOps)
Microsoft Azure (cloud-hosted and managed by Cisco CloudOps)

SD-WAN Manager personas

The personas enable a predefined set of services on the Cisco SD-WAN Manager instance.

From Cisco vManage Release 20.6.1, a multitenant Cisco SD-WAN Manager instance can have one of these three personas.

Table 2. SD-WAN Manager personas
Persona	Services
Compute+Data	Cluster Oracle, Service Proxy, Messaging Service, Coordination Service, Configuration Database, Data Collection Agent, Statistics Database, and Application Server
Data	Cluster Oracle, Service Proxy, Application Server, Data Collection Agent, and Statistics Database
Compute	Cluster Oracle, Service Proxy, Messaging Service, Coordination Service, Configuration Database, and Application Server

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