Reference Platforms and Images

Disk Image Version: refplat-20260409-fcs.iso

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

ASAv

Cisco ASA firewall image

9.24.1

CAT 8000V

IOS-XE Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Router

17.18.02

CAT 9000v Q200 (beta)

IOS-XE Catalyst 9000 Q200 Virtual Switch (beta)

17.18.02

CAT 9000v UADP (beta)

IOS-XE Catalyst 9000 UADP Virtual Switch (beta)

17.18.02

CSR 1000v

IOS-XE Cloud Services Router

17.03.08a

IOL

IOL XE Router

17.18.02

IOL (4s)

IOL XE Router with 4 serial interfaces

17.18.02

IOL L2

IOL XE Switch

17.18.02

IOS XRd

IOS XR 64-bit docker image

26.1.1

IOS XRv 9000

IOS XR 64-bit image

26.1.1

IOSv

IOS classic layer 3 image

15.9.3M12

IOSv L2

IOS classic layer 2/3 switch image

2020

Nexus 9300v

NX-OS layer 2/3 image

10.6(2) F

Linux Images

Alpine Linux

Console-based Alpine Linux

3.23.3

Desktop

Desktop Alpine Linux image that provides a graphical, Xfce interface

3.23.3

Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Linux server image

17.0

TRex

Linux-based image with Cisco’s packet generator

2.87 (no client support)

Ubuntu 24.04

Full-featured Ubuntu server image using cloud-init YAML configuration

24.04 LTS

WAN Emulator

Linux-based image that provides WAN-like delay, jitter, and loss effects to links

3.23.3 (Alpine Linux Version

Wireless AP

Ubuntu with wireless host AP support (beta)

24.04 LTS

Wireless Client

Ubuntu with wireless WPA supplicant support (beta)

24.04 LTS

Disk Image Version: refplat-20260611-supplemental.iso

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

CAT 9800-CL

IOS XE-based wireless LAN Controller

17.18.03

CAT SD-WAN Edge

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Edge

17.18.02

CAT SD-WAN Controller

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller

20.18.2.1 ED

CAT SD-WAN Manager

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager

20.18.2.1

CAT SD-WAN Validator

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator

20.18.2.1

CAT SD-WAN vEdge

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vEdge

20.18.2.1

FMCv

Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual

10.0.1

FTDv

Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual

10.0.0

Meraki vMX

Virtualized security and SD-WAN appliance

18.211.6

vAP (Virtual Access Point)

Virtual Access Point wireless simulation (beta)

2026-06-11

Disk Image Version: refplat-20260326-ise.iso

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

ISE

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

3.5.0

Disk Image Version: refplat-20260409-free.iso

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

ASAv

Cisco ASA firewall image

9.24.1

IOL

IOL XE Router

17.18.02

IOL (4s)

IOL XE Router with 4 serial interfaces

17.18.02

IOL L2

IOL XE Switch

17.18.02

Linux Images

Alpine Linux

Console-based Alpine Linux

3.23.3

Desktop

Desktop Alpine Linux image that provides a graphical, Xfce interface

3.23.3

Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Linux server image

17.0

Ubuntu 24.04

Full-featured Ubuntu server image using cloud-init YAML configuration

24.04 LTS

Wireless AP

Ubuntu with wireless host AP support (beta)

24.04 LTS

Wireless Client

Ubuntu with wireless WPA supplicant support (beta)

24.04 LTS

Starting with CML 2.10, Docker container node types from the cml-docker-containers GitHub repository ship on separate refplat ISO files. They are not included on the FCS, supplemental, free-tier, or ISE refplat ISO images. Pin versions to a tagged release (for example v0.3.1).

Browser containers

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

Chromium

Chromium web browser

147.0.7727.137

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox web browser

152.0.4

Service containers

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

Dnsmasq

DHCP, DNS, and TFTP server

2.91-1

FreeRADIUS

FreeRADIUS server

3.2.7+dfsg-1+deb13u2

FRR

Free Range Routing (FRR)

10.6.1-r0

Net-Tools

Networking utilities

2.10-1.3

Nginx

Nginx web server

1.31.2

Snort3

Snort3 IDS tutorial image

3.10.0.0

Syslog NG

Syslog NG server

4.8.1-5+deb13u1

Tacacs+

Tacacs+ server

F4.0.4.28

ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent

0.86.0-agent

Splunk container

Ref. Platform/Image

Description

Version

Splunk

Splunk Enterprise

10.4.1