Example; (Vmware Esxi); Overview Of Tasks For Manually Creating The Cisco Csr 1000V Vm - Cisco CSR 1000v Series Software Configuration Manual

Manually Creating the VM and Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v Software Using the .iso File (VMware ESXi)

Example

The table below shows an example cot deploy command, and its arguments, that is used to deploy a Cisco
CSR 1000v VM in a vCenter environment.
Script Step
cot deploy
-s '10.122.197.5/UCS/host/10.122.197.38'
-u administrator -p password
-n XE3.13
-c 1CPU-4GB
-N "GigabitEthernet1=VM Network"
-N "GigabitEthernet2=VM Network"
-N "GigabitEthernet3=VM Network"
esxi
~/Downloads/csr1000v-universalk9.ova
-ds=datastore38a
Manually Creating the VM and Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v
Software Using the .iso File (VMware ESXi)

Overview of Tasks for Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v VM

The figure below shows the typical high-level tasks required to manually create the Cisco CSR 1000v VM.
The specific procedures, terminology and the order the steps are performed may differ depending on the
hypervisor being used. See the sections following for detailed steps for creating the VM.
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Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v in VMware ESXi Environments
Description
vCenter server 10.122.197.5, target host
UCS/host/10.122.197.38
Credentials for the ESXi server. If unspecified, COT
will use your userid and prompt for a password.
Name of the newly created CSR VM.
OVF hardware config profile. If this is not specified,
COT displays a list of available profiles and prompts
you to select one.
Mapping each NIC in the Cisco CSR 1000v OVA to
a vSwitch on the server.
Target hypervisor (currently always ESXi)
OVA to deploy
Any ESXi-specific parameters—here, the datastore
to use for disk storage.