Software download process

Updated: July 7, 2026

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Provides the steps and information required to download Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN software and related components from the Cisco Software Download site.

You can download Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN software from the Cisco Software Download site. The direct link for downloading Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN software is here. Download the following components, and any other software that you need for your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN installation. The Cisco SD-WAN Controllers operate as virtual machines on a server.

Note

Starting from Cisco vManage Release 20.9.1, vEdge Cloud router is not supported.

Table 1. Software components and download notes
Component	Comments
Cisco SD-WAN Validator	Appears as vEdge Cloud router on the download page because the Cisco SD-WAN Validator is deployed as a Cisco vEdge device.
Cisco SD-WAN Manager	Appears as Cisco SD-WAN Controller Software on the download page
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller	Appears as Cisco SD-WAN Controller Software on the download page

File names for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.14.1 and later

Starting from Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 20.14.1, the software images are renamed from viptela-edge to viptela-bond and an unified software image is used for Cisco SD-WAN Controller (vSmart) and Cisco SD-WAN Validator (vBond). The initial default hostname for both controllers is vsmart. We recommend that you update the hostname.

Table 2. Software image file name changes
Software Images	Before Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 20.14.1	Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 20.14.1 and later
.qcow2 (name change)	viptela-edge-genericx86-64.qcow2 viptela-image-generic86-64.qcow2	viptela-bond-genericx86-64.qcow2
.vhd (name change)	viptela-edge-genericx86-64_vhd.tar.gz viptela-image-generic86-64_vhd.tar.gz	viptela-bond-genericx86-64_vhd.tar.gz
.ova (name change)	viptela-edge-genericx86-64.ova viptela-image-generic86-64.ova	viptela-bond-genericx86-64.ova
.tar.gz (no change)	viptela-20.14.1-x86_64.tar.gz	viptela-20.14.1-x86_64.tar.gz

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