Cisco Systems CSR 1000V manual Tar xvf file.ova bdeo.sh README-BDEO.txt

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

Deploying the Cisco CSR 1000V OVA Template to the VM

The following restrictions apply to the BDEO tool:

•You can deploy the .ova file directly onto an ESXi host. The BDEO tool is not supported for Citrix XenServer, KVM, or Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

•Beginning with Cisco IOS XE Release 3.12S, the CSR 1000V OVA provides the option to select multiple user-selectable hardware configuration profiles. The BDEO tool has not been extended to construct an enhanced OVA of this type; if using the BDEO tool to create a custom OVA, the resulting OVA will only define a single hardware profile.

•The customization options under the “Virtual Machine Hardware”, “Virtual Machine Description”, and “Cisco IOS XE Configuration” are only used when constructing a new OVA with an .iso file as input (-i csr1000v.iso). The BDEO tool does not support modifying existing OVAs, so if an OVA is provided as input (-i csr1000v.ova), all options under these three heading categories will be silently ignored by the BDEO tool.

While the following procedure provides general guidance for how to deploy the Cisco CSR 1000V, the exact steps that you need to perform may vary depending on the characteristics of your VMware environment and setup.

Step 1 Download the .ova file from the Cisco CSR 1000V software installation image package: Step 2 Extract the BDEO shell script tool from the OVA package.

For example, you could use the following Linux command:

tar xvf [file.ova] bdeo.sh README-BDEO.txt

Step 3 Run the BDEO shell script with the command-line parameters that you wish to use. You can run it with “-h” in order to get a listing of supported parameters, or refer to the following table.

All of the commands below are optional except for the -i -imagecommand.

Note The default values may vary depending on the Cisco CSR 1000V version.

Table 4-11 BDEO Command-Line Bootstrap Properties

	Command Name	Parameters	Description
	Input/Output Options
	-i -image	path	Enters one of the following:
			• The ISO image filename used to create the OVA from.
			• The .ova file to deploy to the ESXi server
	-o -output	path	Enters the destination output directory of the OVF
			package, and/or the OVA file.
	-n -name	[name]	Creates a unique OVF or OVA name with a different name
			than the image. If you don’t specify a name, then the
			default .ova filename is used.
	-format	[ovf ova zip]	Generates the package in the given format(s). Use a
			comma-separated list for more than one format. The
			default format is ova.
	Virtual Machine Hardware Options
	-c -cpus	cpus	Enters the number of CPUs to provision.
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