Cisco Systems CSR 1000V manual Supported VMware Features and Operations

Chapter 4 Installing the Cisco CSR 1000V in VMware ESXi Environments

VMware ESXi Support Information

Table 4-2	VMware Requirements for Cisco CSR 1000V
Cisco CSR 1000V Release		VM Configuration Requirements
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.11S		•	VMware ESXi 5.0 or 5.1
		•	Single hard disk

Note Multiple hard disk drives on a VM are not supported.

	• 8 GB virtual disk
	• The following virtual CPU configurations are supported:
		– 1 virtual CPU, requiring 2.5 GB minimum of RAM
		– 2 virtual CPUs, requiring 2.5 GB minimum of RAM
		– 4 virtual CPUs, requiring 4 GB minimum of RAM
	• 3 or more virtual network interface cards
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.12S	•	VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, or 5.5
	•	Single hard disk

Note Multiple hard disk drives on a VM are not supported.

•8 GB virtual disk

•The following virtual CPU configurations are supported:

–1 virtual CPU, requiring 2.5 GB minimum of RAM

–2 virtual CPUs, requiring 2.5 GB minimum of RAM

–4 virtual CPUs, requiring 4 GB minimum of RAM

–8 virtual CPUs, requiring 4 GB minimum of RAM

•3 or more virtual network interface cards

Supported VMware Features and Operations

VMware supports various features and operations that allow you to manage your virtual applications and perform operations such as cloning, migration, shutdown and resume.

Some of these operations cause the runtime state of the VM to be saved and then restored upon restarting. If the runtime state includes traffic-related state, then on resumption or replaying the runtime state, additional errors, statistics, or messages are displayed on the user console. If the saved state is just configuration driven, you can use these features and operations without a problem.

Table 4-7lists the VMware features and operations that are supported on the Cisco CSR 1000V. For more information about VMware features and operations, see the VMware Documentation.

The following VM features and operations are not supported in all versions of the Cisco CSR 1000V, but can still be used or performed on non-supported versions at the risk of encountering dropped packets, dropped connections, and other error statistics:

•Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)

•Fault Tolerance

•Resume

•Snapshot

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