You have a variety of choices for setting up your own Cisco SD-WAN lab. Your best option right now is EVE-NG. Every step of setting up EVE-NG is easy and creating your own Cisco SD-WAN lab is very quick. This comprises:

downloading the necessary eve ng online lab and Cisco images

putting in EVE-NG

putting in the photos on your EVE-NG setup

checking your ability to use the images

EVE-NG can be run on real hardware, a KVM or VMWare hypervisor, or both. The EVE-NG requirements page has more information on cisco ise eve ng. It will be set up on VMware ESXi 7, of course. The Cisco SD-WAN and EVE-NG images must be downloaded in order to get started.

Cisco account setup

You need to have a CCO account with a contract in order to download the Cisco SD-WAN images. The photos are accessible through Cisco's Software Download. Cisco SD-WAN can be used with a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Azure, VMware ESXi, and KVM. For EVE-NG, we need the KVM images.

From the download page, you can get EVE-NG. There are two possibilities

Community Edition Version Professional/Learning Center Version. The professional version's ISO download is best for the following two reasons:

The most recent version.

You can add and remove links without logging off of virtual devices.

The professional version costs money but is unquestionably worthwhile. Transfer the ISO file to your VMware ESXi server's datastore. We must first build some additional port groups before we can create the virtual computer.

The EVE-NG virtual machine's eth0 interface is connected to the first port group (LAB). We use this so that we may connect to the SSH server or the EVE-NG GUI. The other three port groups are connected to various EVE-NG "cloud" networks. These can be used as a bridge between our real network and virtual devices. Every port group makes use of a distinct VLAN. These cloud icons are helpful for SD-WAN because we'll be simulating various WAN connections using them.