ISE EVENG deployment

mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/ise-3.3.0-430.SPA/
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/ise-3.3.0-430.SPA/
mv Cisco-ISE-3.3.0.430.SPA.x86_64.iso cdrom.iso
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 virtioa.qcow2 200G


Create new LAB in the EVE and add new ISE node, Connect it to management switch. Settings for ISE node are: CPU x4, RAM x16384M, 1 xEthernet. Console VNC, during install first time.

-machine type=pc,accel=kvm -smbios type=1,product=KVM -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -display none -vga std -rtc base=utc

Start ISE node and when setup prompt appears, shutdown ISE node.

Commit created image for further use

Get lab id from Lab details 

! EVE CLI: Convert image from lab tmp folder to defaults image location. In the command below is used lab ID (above) and as we added on lab single node, node ID is 1. ISE image foldername match what we created before. Number 0 in the line below is user POD number. Admin pod is 0.

cd /opt/unetlab/tmp/0/74b3a1cc-bfd0-4a29-8d28-941daa450499/1/
qemu-img commit virtioa.qcow2

rm -f /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/ise-3.3.0-430.SPA/cdrom.iso

/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions 

! Advanced instructions on how to make your image smaller in size (sparsify&compress). RECOMMENDED !

cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/ise-3.3.0-430.SPA/
virt-sparsify  --compress virtioa.qcow2 compressedvirtioa.qcow2
mv virtioa.qcow2 orig.qcow2
mv compressedvirtioa.qcow2 virtioa.qcow2
! if everything looks good then delete the original qcow2 image 
rm orig.qcow2