Cisco Systems CSR 1000V manual Client

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

VMware ESXi Support Information

Table 4-6	Supported VMware Features and Operations: High Availability (continued)
		First Supported
		Cisco CSR 1000V
Supported Entities		Release	Description
Host-Level High Availability		Cisco IOS XE Release	To monitor physical servers, an agent on each server
		3.9S	maintains a heartbeat with the other servers in the resource
			pool such that a loss of heartbeat automatically initiates the
			restart of all affected virtual machines on other servers in the
			resource pool. Host-Level High Availability is enabled by
			creating a resource pool of servers or hosts, and enabling
			high availability in vSphere.
Fault Tolerance		Cisco IOS XE Release	Using high availability, fault tolerance is enabled on the
		3.10S	ESXi host. When you enable fault tolerance on the VM
			running the Cisco CSR 1000V, a secondary VM on another
			host in the cluster is created. If the primary host goes down,
			then the VM on the secondary host will take over as the
			primary VM for the Cisco CSR 1000V.

Note The Cisco CSR 1000V does not use or support Cisco IOS-based high availability. High Availability is supported on the VM host only.

Table 4-7	Supported VMware Features and Operations: Storage Options (for Both vCenter Server and vSphere
	Client)
		First Supported
		Cisco CSR 1000V
Supported Entities		Release	Description
Storage Options (for both vCenter Server and vSphere Client)
Local Storage		Cisco IOS XE Release	Local storage is in the internal hard disks located inside your
		3.9S	ESXi host. Local storage devices do not support sharing
			across multiple hosts. A datastore on a local storage device
			can be accessed by only one host.
External Storage Target		Cisco IOS XE Release	You can deploy the Cisco CSR 1000V on external storage,
		3.9S	that is, a Storage Area Network (SAN).
Mount or Pass Through of USB		Cisco IOS XE Release	You can connect USB sticks to the Cisco CSR 1000V and
Storage		3.9S	use them as storage devices. In ESXi, you need to add a USB
			controller and then assign the disk devices to the
			Cisco CSR 1000V.
			• Cisco CSR 1000V supports USB disk hot-plug.
			• You can use only two USB disk hot-plug devices at a
			time.
			• USB hub is not supported.

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