Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8 available for download !

: Last Updated: 06 February 2025

Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8.0 are the next-generation Cisco network emulation platform, providing advanced network simulation capabilities. Using virtual environments, it has been designed to run real network devices virtual images (IOS, IOSXE, NX-OS) at a fraction of the cost production environments.

A Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) are provided for free for labs up to 5 virtual network devices and an unlimited number of unmanaged switches and external connectors. It is suited for CCNA certification training labs.

CML can be installed on a Virtual Machine with VMware ESXI, VMware Workstion, or VMware Player. Despite CML has been reported to work on AMD CPU, an intel CPU is required to be able to run some of the bundeled platform images without issue.

What's new in Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8.0

Cisco Modeling labs features the following new features :

Smart Annotations
Rotation Support for Rectangle and Ellipse Annotation Types
Ability to paste text into VNC sessions
Node Disk Usage
Base virtual machine based on Ubuntu 24.04
LDAP Group Support
Custom MAC Address
FMCv and FTDv Support and Images

Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8.0 system requirements

CML 2.8 can be installed on a bare-metal server or in a virtual environment (both on-premises or cloud virtualization supported. The following minimum configuration is required to be able to use CML 2.8 :

Memory : 8 GB
CPU : Intel processor with a at least 4 physical cores; cpu must support VTx and EPT.
Network : 1 Interface
Disk : 32 GB or more free space