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Chapter4 Installing the Cisco CSR 1000V in VMware ESXi Environments
VMware ESXi Support Information
NIC Teaming Cisco IOS XE Release
3.9S
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.
Note 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.
vSwitch Cisco IOS XE Release
3.9S
From both vCenter Server and vSphere Client. A vSwitch is
a virtualized version of a Layer 2 physical switch. A vSwitch
can route traffic internally between virtual machines and link
to external networks. You can use vSwitches to combine the
bandwidth of multiple network adapters and balance
communications traffic among them. You can also configure
a vSwitch to handle a physical NIC failover.
Table4-6 Supported VMware Features and Operations: High Availability
Supported Entities
First Supported
CiscoCSR 1000V
Release Description
VM-Level High Availability Cisco IOS XE Release
3.9S
To monitor operating system failures, VM-Level High
Availability monitors heartbeat information in the VMware
High Availability cluster. Failures are detected when no
heartbeat is received from a given virtual machine within a
user-specified time interval. VM-Level High Availability is
enabled by creating a resource pool of VMs using VMware
vCenter Server.
Table4-5 Supported VMware Features and Operations: Networking Features (continued)
Supported Entities
First Supported
CiscoCSR 1000V
Release Description