Cisco Systems CSR 1000V Enters the number of Ethernet NICs to provision, Ea -ethadapter, Product

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

Deploying the Cisco CSR 1000V OVA Template to the VM

Table 4-11		BDEO Command-Line Bootstrap Properties (continued)
Command Name			Parameters	Description
-m	-memory		MB	Enters the amount of memory to provision on the VM. The
				Cisco CSR 1000V requires 4096 MB.
-ds -disksize				Not supported.
-ns -nics			nics	Enters the number of Ethernet NICs to provision. The
				Cisco CSR 1000V requires a minimum of three vNICs.
-ea -eth_adapter			string	Enters the vNIC Ethernet adapter type. Valid values are
				the following:
				•	VMXNET3
-nw -network			string	Enters the VM network name for all vNICs or a
				comma-separated list of one name per vNIC.
Virtual Machine Description Options
-p	-product		string	Enters the description of the product:
				Cisco CSR 1000V Cloud Services Router
-v	-vendor		string	Enters the name of the vendor:
				Cisco Systems, Inc.
-vs -version_short			string	Enters the short version string.
-vl -version_long			string	Enters the long version string.
-pu -product_url			url	Enters the URL of the product:
				http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12559/index.ht
				ml.
-vu -vendor_url			url	Enters the URL of the vendor: http://www.cisco.com.
<URL>
ESXi/vSphere Deploy Options
-d -deploy			url	Deploys the OVA to the specified ESXi host.
-u -username			string	Enters the ESXi login username.
-pw -password			string	Enters the ESXi login password.
-s	-store		string	Enters the name of the datastore where the OVA will be
				deployed.
-dm -diskmode			option	Enters the disk mode type for the VM. Supported options
				are:
				•	thick
				•	eagerZeroedThick
-pm -port_map			list	Enters a comma-separated list of port-map names to use
				for each VM network from the -network option.
				If not specified, the tool will assume this value is the same
				as the -network value.
-nv -nooverwrite				If this value is set, then it instructs the tool to not overwrite
				an existing VM with the same name.

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