Cisco Systems manual Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V and Accessing the Console

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Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V and Accessing the Console

•Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V as the VM

•Accessing the Cisco CSR 1000V Console

Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V as the VM

The Cisco CSR 1000V boots when the VM is powered on. Depending on your configuration, you can monitor the installation process on the VM console or the console on the virtual serial port.

Note If you want to access and configure the Cisco CSR 1000V from the serial port on the hypervisor instead of the VM console, you should provision the VM to use this setting before powering on the VM and booting the router. For more information, see the “Accessing the Cisco CSR 1000V Through the Virtual Serial Port” section on page 8-3.

Step 1 Power-up the VM.

Step 2 Within 5 seconds of powering on the VM, choose which console to use to view the router bootup and to access the Cisco CSR 1000V CLI:

•Virtual Console: Choose this option to use the VMware VM console. This is the default setting and the Cisco CSR 1000V will boot using the virtual console if the serial console is not selected within the 5-second timeframe.

If you choose to use the VMware VM console, the rest of the steps in this procedure do not apply. See the VMware documentation.

•Serial Console: Choose this option to use the virtual serial port console on the VM (not supported on Citrix XenServer VMs).

The virtual serial port must already be present on the VM for this option to work.

–If you are installing on VMware ESXi, see the “Creating Serial Console Access in VMware ESXi” section on page 8-4.

–If you are installing in KVM environments, see the “Creating the Serial Console Access in KVM” section on page 8-5.

–If you are installing in Microsoft Hyper-V environments, see the “Creating the Serial Console Access in Microsoft Hyper-V” section on page 8-5.

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