Capacity: Disk Size
•
See the
Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3, on page 96
for the virtual hard disk size required in
your release.
•
Disk Provisioning: select one of the following: Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed or Thick Provision Eager Zeroed.
The Thin Provision option is not supported. The Thick Provision Eager Zeroed option takes longer to
install but provides better performance.
Note
•
Location: Store with the Virtual Machine
Click Next.
Step 14
Under Advanced Options, select SCSI (0:0) for the virtual device node.
Step 15
On the Ready to Complete screen, click the Edit the virtual machine settings before completion. Click Continue checkbox.
Step 16
In the Hardware tab, click
New CD/DVD Drive
.
a) Select the Device Type that the VM will boot from:
Select the Datastore ISO file option to boot from the Cisco CSR 1000v .iso file. Browse to the location of the .iso
file on the datastore set in step 1.
b) In the Device Status field, select the Connect at power on checkbox.
c) Select the Virtual Device Node CD/DVD drive on the host that the VM will boot from.
Step 17
In the Resources tab, click the CPU setting:
Set the Resource Allocation setting to Unlimited.
Step 18
Click OK.
Step 19
Click Finish.
The VM is now configured for the Cisco CSR 1000v and is ready to boot. The Cisco CSR 1000v is booted when the
VM is powered on. See
Booting the Cisco CSR 1000v and Accessing the Console, on page 145
.
To access and configure the Cisco CSR 1000v from the serial port on the ESXi host instead of the virtual VGA
console, provision the VM to use this setting before powering on the VM and booting the router. For more
information, see
Booting the Cisco CSR 1000v and Accessing the Console, on page 145
.
Note
Increasing Performance on VMware ESXi Configurations
You can improve performance on VMware ESXi configurations by performing the following:
•
Disable VMware ESXi power management.
Choose the High Performance setting to disable power management in VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, or
6.0. For more information, see the
.
VMware Requirements
—
Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.5
The VMware tools supported by Cisco CSR 1000v using Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.5 are as follows:
Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Software Configuration Guide
94
Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v in VMware ESXi Environments
Increasing Performance on VMware ESXi Configurations