Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual Getting Started Guide

System Requirements

Updated: February 5, 2026

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Overview

Learn about the hardware and software requirements for deploying OpenStack and Cisco VIM Managed OpenStack, including supported server models, operating systems, drivers, and OpenStack versions.

The OpenStack environment must conform to the following supported hardware and software requirements.

Table 1. Hardware and Software Requirements
Category	Supported Versions	Notes
Server	UCS C240 M5	2 UCS servers are recommended, one each for os-controller and os-compute nodes.
Driver	VIRTIO	These are the supported drivers.
Operating System	Ubuntu Server 22.04	This is the recommended OS on UCS servers.
OpenStack Version	Caracal release	Details of the various OpenStack releases are available at: https://releases.openstack.org/

Table 2. Hardware and Software Requirements for Cisco VIM Managed OpenStack
Category	Supported Versions	Notes
Server Hardware	UCS C220-M5/UCS C240-M4	5 UCS servers are recommended, three each for os-controller and Two or more for os-compute nodes.
Drivers	VIRTIO	These are the supported drivers.
Cisco VIM Version	Cisco VIM 4.4.3 Supported on: Operating System - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 OpenStack version - OpenStack 16.2 (Train Release)	See Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Documentation, 4.4.3 for more information.

OpenStack Platform Topology

The following figure shows the recommended topology to support deployments in OpenStack using two UCS servers.

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