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Cloud Configuration: Release Versions and Highlights

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Cloud Management with IOS XE unlocks the full potential of IOS XE, empowering organizations to simplify operations, enhance efficiency, and improve network performance from access to core. This article highlights the new features for each major Cloud Management with IOS XE version in Cloud Configuration. 

Refer to the Cloud Management with IOS XE Overview page for information on Key Consideration Before You Upgrade or Migrate, as well as Changes in Behavior (such as LED behavior, Spanning Tree changes, safe-config and rollback, etc.).  

For CLI to Cloud Management (cloud configuration source) migration instruction,  see the documentation Conversion from CLI-managed IOS XE Catalyst Switches to Cloud Management with Cloud Configuration. 

Support Models 

Supported Models and Minimum Required Version 

Family  Models Minimum Required Version 
MS390 MS390-24-HW, MS390-24P-HW, MS390-24U-HW, MS390-24UX-HW, MS390-48-HW, MS390-48P-HW, MS390-48U-HW, MS390-48UX-HW, MS390-48UX2-HW 17.15+
C9200L C9200L-24T-4X , C9200L-24P-4X, C9200L-48T-4X , C9200L-48P-4X , C9200L-48PL-4X , C9200L-24PXG-4X , C9200L-48PXG-4X , C9200L-24PXG-2Y , C9200L-48PXG-2Y , C9200L-24T-4G , C9200L-24P-4G , C9200L-48T-4G , C9200L-48P-4G , C9200L-48 PL-4G, and its corresponding -M switch SKUs.
C9300 C9300-24T, C9300-24P, C9300-24U , C9300-24UX , C9300-48T , C9300-48P, C9300-48U , C9300-48UXM, C9300-48UN, C9300-24S, C9300-48S , C9300X-12Y, C9300X-24Y, C9300X-48HXN, C9300X-24HX, C9300X-48HX, C9300X-48TX, C9300L-24P-4X, C9300L-24T-4X, C9300L-24UXG-4X, C9300L-48P-4X, C9300L-48PF-4X, C9300L-48T-4X, C9300L-48UXG-4X, and its corresponding -M switch SKUs.
 
Remaining C9300 models  C9300-24UB, C9300-24UXB, C9300-48UB, C9300-24H, C9300-48H, C9300L-24T-4G, C9300L-48T-4G, C9300L-24P-4G, C9300L-48P-4G, C9300L-48PF-4G, C9300L-24UXG-2Q, C9300L-48UXG-2Q, C9300LM-48UX-4Y, C9300LM-48U-4Y, C9300LM-24U-4Y, C9300LM-48T-4Y  17.18.1+
C9200  C9200-24T, C9200-24P, C9200-24PB, C9200-24PXG, C9200-48T, C9200-48P, C9200-48PL, C9200-48PB, C9200-48PXG 
C9200CX  C9200CX-12T-2X2G, C9200CX-12P-2X2G, C9200CX-8P-2X2G, C9200CX-8UXG-2X, C9200CX-12P-2XGH, C9200CX-8P-2XGH, C9200CX-8UXG-2XH 

C9500H: high-performance switch with 100G Uplink 

 C9500-48Y4C, C9500-24Y4C, C9500-32C, C9500-32QC 
Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches*

Firmware Upgrade Advisory for C9300L (-M) series: Due to a known issue, C9300L (-M) series switches that experience problems upgrading from a CS version to IOS XE 17.15.4 may encounter an issue rolling back to the original software image, and then fail to properly boot. To avoid running into this issue, please DO NOT make any configuration changes that could impact switch connectivity to the dashboard to the dashboard until the upgrade is complete and successful. 

Firmware Upgrade Advisory for C9300L: Due to a known issue, 9300L switches will not upgrade when a network upgrades to IOS XE 17.15.4. If your network is scheduled for an upgrade from a CS firmware version to IOS XE 17.15.4 version, all other devices will upgrade as planned and C9300L models will remain on the current CS firmware version.  This measure is in place to prevent an issue where 9300L may experience a problem upgrading to 17.15.4, attempt to roll back to the original software image, and then fail to properly boot. Once this issue has been patched, the switches will upgraded normally.

Supported Network Modules and Minimum Required Version

Network Modules Compatible Switch Minimum Required Version

C9300X-NM-2C (-M) 1**

C9300X-NM-8Y (-M) 1 

 C9300X 

CS16+ and IOS XE 17.15 

For existing C9300 network module support with 17.15 or prior firmware, please refer to the Uplink Modules table here.   

C9300-NM-2Q (-M)

C9300-NM-8X (-M) 

C9300-NM-2Y (-M)2 

 C9300 
 
C9300X-NM-4C  C9300X-48HX, C9300X-48TX and C9300X-24Y models.  17.18.1+ 
C9300X-NM-8M 1  C9300X 

C9300-NM-4G

C9300-NM-4M 

 C9300 

C9200-NM-2Y

C9200-NM-2Q 

 Support only on C9200-24PXG, C9200-48PXG 
C9200-NM-4G 

C9200  (Not supported on C9200-24PXG, C9200-48PXG) 
C9200-NM-4X  C9200 

 

  1. The number of Network Module ports are limited when C9300X-NM-xx are used with the C9300X-48HXN models.  For more details see IOS-XE documentation. 
  2. The C9300-NM-2Y-M module is supported on C9300-24S/48S with firmware CS16.7. Support for the other C9300 switch models require CS16.8 

The C9300X-NM-2C-M modules will operate at 40Gbps with software support in CS17 firmware.  For 100G operation, IOS-XE 17.15+ is required.

Cloud Management with IOS XE 

Cloud-managed Catalyst switches that are being scheduled for an upgrade from any CS firmware version to the latest Cloud Management with IOS XE version (17.15+) should first meet the minimum CS firmware requirement of CS16 or CS17 version before upgrading.

IOS XE 17.18 

The new 17.18.1 release delivers high-scale management with advanced features such as enhanced routing protocols, robust high availability capabilities, expanded cloud visibility and troubleshooting tools like SmartPorts and Intelligent Capture (scheduling). With support for additional switch platforms, including C9200/CX, C9300LM, and C9500, it provides seamless, scalable, and reliable management across multiple sites—all through a single, intuitive dashboard.

Cloud Management (Cloud Configuration) with IOS XE 17.18.1 is currently available in beta. 

Feature Supported Models/Family Minimum Required License
Expand switching platform supports  C9200/C9300/C9500H Enterprise
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) C9200CX, C9300, MS390, and C9500H Enterprise
Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) All supported C9000 and MS390 switches in Cloud Management with Cloud Configuration running IOS XE 17.18.1 Enterprise
Routed Ports  Enterprise
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)1 C9500H Enterprise
StackWise Virtual Enterprise
Rapid Per-VLAN STP (RPVST+)2 All supported C9000 and MS390 switches in Cloud Management with Cloud Configuration running IOS XE 17.18.1 Enterprise

Cloud value expansion:

 Enterprise
  1. ISSU will only become available when upgrading to the next release from IOS XE 17.18.1  
  2. IMPORTANT! Please prune unused VLANs. VLANs greater than the number of supported RPVST Instances will automatically be removed for each switch in the network. For more information, refer to VLAN Profiles documentation. 

The Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches are running their first IOS XE release. The following advanced Layer 3 features are not supported in this release: BGP, VRF, Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (RPVST+), Routed Ports, Digital Optical Monitoring, Radius Caching, Intelligent Capture Scheduling, SmartPort Profiles, Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), detailed traffic analytics on trunk ports, port channels, and uplink modules, and VLAN to SGT mapping. Additionally, certain fields in NetFlow exporters are not supported

Unsupported Features 

The following features are not available in Cloud Management with IOS XE 17.18.1 and will be added in future releases.

  • MAC Blocklist 

  • RSPAN / VLAN SPAN 

  • IPv6 RA Guard / DHCP Guard 

  • WarmSpare / VRRP 

  • HTTP Proxy  

  • Sticky MAC  

  • Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) Auto-Uplink 

  • Client Tracking on 10G-mGig 

  • Netflow on IPv6 

  • SecurePort 

  • Geo cloud - Canada, China, or India Cloud  

IOS XE 17.15 

Key Highlights 

  • Introducing a new onboarding flow including both cloud and device configuration: two powerful ways to manage your Catalyst 9000 switches from the Meraki dashboard. These options give you the flexibility to choose cloud management with cloud configuration in Meraki dashboard or device configuration (previously referred to as cloud monitoring) that offers configuration via an embedded cloud CLI while leveraging the cloud for monitoring and troubleshooting. Learn more. 

  • Management Interface Architecture Change: a dedicated management interface is no longer required. 

  • Default Network Module: this enhancement simplifies and consolidates network module configuration into 8 default ports that get applied dynamically to any inserted network module. (Watch this video to learn more about this change or see the Cloud Operating Mode for Catalyst Cloud-Managed Switches Overview documentation)

  • Standardized Cisco Logging and Interface Naming 

Supported Features

  • Configuration Templates  

  • Adaptive Policy  

  • Intelligent Capture

  • Storm Control 

  • Radius Multi-Auth (dot1X) 

  • Device Uptime 

  • 802.1X Control Direction 

  • Meraki Authentication (Meraki Auth) 

  • Alternate Management Interface (AMI) 

  • Port Schedules 

  • C9200L Hardware Platform Support (see supported models below) 

  • SNMPv3 

  • Encrypted Traffic Analytics 

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet 

  • MAC Allow Lists 

Unsupported Features

The following features are not available in IOS XE 17.15 with cloud configuration and will be added in future releases.

  • SmartPorts 

  • MAC Blocklist

  • Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM)

  • RSPAN / VLAN SPAN

  • IPv6 RA Guard / DHCP Guard

  • WarmSpare / VRRP

  • HTTP Proxy 

  • Sticky MAC 

  • Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) Auto-Uplink

  • Client Tracking on 10G-MGig

  • Netflow on IPv6

  • SecurePort

  • Geo cloud - Canada, China, or India Cloud 

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