Description
First Supported Cisco CSR 1000v Release
Supported Entities
You can create a single OVA package file
from the OVF package/template. The OVA
can then be distributed more easily; for
example, it may be downloaded from a
website or moved via a USB key.
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S
OVA Creation
Table 19: Supported VMware Features and Operations: Networking Features
Description
First Supported Cisco CSR 1000v Release
Supported Entities
From both vCenter Server and vSphere
Client. Allows you to set up the MAC
address manually for a virtual network
adapter.
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S
Custom MAC address
From vCenter Server only. A vSphere
distributed switch on a vCenter Server data
center can handle networking traffic for all
associated hosts on the data center.
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S
Distributed VSwitch
Provides automatic load balancing across
hosts.
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.10S
Distributed Resources Scheduler
From both vCenter Server and vSphere
Client. Load balancing and failover policies
allow you to determine how network traffic
is distributed between adapters and how to
reroute traffic if an adapter fails.
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S
NIC Load Balancing
From both vCenter Server and vSphere
Client. Allows you to set up an
environment where each virtual switch
connects to two uplink adapters that form
a NIC team. The NIC teams can then either
share the load of traffic between physical
and virtual networks among some or all of
its members, or provide passive failover in
the event of a hardware failure or a network
outage.
NIC Teaming can cause a large
number of ARP packets to flood
the Cisco CSR 1000v and
overload the CPU. To avoid this
situation, reduce the number of
ARP packets and implement NIC
Teaming as Active-Standby rather
than Active-Active.
Note
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.9S
NIC Teaming
Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Software Configuration Guide
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Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v in VMware ESXi Environments
Operations (for vCenter Server and vSphere Web Client)