Cisco Systems CSR 1000V Installing the Cisco CSR 1000V in Citrix XenServer Environments

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Cisco CSR 1000V Series Cloud Services Router Software Configuration Guide

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Installing the Cisco CSR 1000V in Citrix XenServer Environments

•Citrix XenServer Support Information

•Installation Requirements for Citrix XenServer

•Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000V VM Using the .iso File (Citrix XenServer)

The Cisco CSR 1000V installation on Citrix XenServer requires the manual creation of a VM and

installation using the .iso file. Deploying the OVA template into a Citrix XenServer environment is not

supported in this release.

The Cisco CSR 1000V supports the VIF vNIC type on the Citrix XenServer implementation.

The following Citrix XenServer features are supported:

•Virtual machine power-cycle

•Interface add and delete

Note This operation requires the Cisco CSR 1000V to be restarted to take effect.

•NIC bonding

•Virtual machine cloning

Only cold cloning is supported, meaning the VM must be powered down when the cloning takes

place.

•Taking, restoring and deleting snapshots

Using Citrix XenServer, you can take a snapshot of the current state of the VM. Snapshots are

supported when the Cisco CSR 1000V VM is either powered up or powered down.

•Remote storage

•Performance monitoring (CPU, network and disk)

Note The Cisco CSR 1000V does not support XenTools. The XenMotion operation is not supported on the

Cisco CSR 1000V because it requires XenTools.