Cisco Systems CSR 1000V manual Supported VMware Features and Operations Networking Features

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

VMware ESXi Support Information

Table 4-4	Supported VMware Features and Operations: Operations (for Both vCenter Server and vSphere Client)
		First Supported
		Cisco CSR 1000V
Supported Entities		Release	Description
OVF Creation		Cisco IOS XE Release	An OVF package captures the state of a virtual machine into
		3.9S	a self-contained package. The disk files are stored in a
			compressed, sparse format. You can create the OVF file by
			exporting it to your local computer.
OVA Creation		Cisco IOS XE Release	Single file (OVA) to package the OVF template into a single
		3.9S	.ova file. This enables distributing the OVF package as a
			single file if it needs to be explicitly downloaded from a
			website or moved around using a USB key.
Table 4-5	Supported VMware Features and Operations: Networking Features
		First Supported
		Cisco CSR 1000V
Supported Entities		Release	Description
Custom MAC address		Cisco IOS XE Release	From both vCenter Server and vSphere Client. Allows you
		3.9S	to set up the MAC address manually for a virtual network
			adapter.
Distributed VSwitch		Cisco IOS XE Release	From vCenter Server only. A vSphere distributed switch on
		3.9S	a vCenter Server data center can handle networking traffic
			for all associated hosts on the data center.
Distributed Resources Scheduler		Cisco IOS XE Release	Provides automatic load balancing across hosts.
		3.10S
NIC Load Balancing		Cisco IOS XE Release	From both vCenter Server and vSphere Client. Load
		3.9S	balancing and failover policies allow you to determine how
			network traffic is distributed between adapters and how to
			reroute traffic if an adapter fails.

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