This may take some time depending on your server/network Now the system will start to deploy the template. Click FINISH to start to deploy the OVF Template. We will cover creating and assigned new VM Networks later in this post.Īfter you click next you will get a confirmations screen. Since we did not create our VM networks yet, just accept the defaults for now. For Thick, it will need 8.3 G and for thin you need 546.2 MB. Here you can choose Thick or Thin provisioning, I do Thin for my home lab – but that is up to you. Select your Datastore to store the CSR1000V on and click next Now you can give the CSR1000V a name, here is the default one use – I appended a 1 to mine before clicking Next. Then browse to and select the OVA file we just downloaded and click nextĪnd then click next after you confirm the details To deploy the software, launch your vSphere Client, click on File – Deploy OVF Template
What is cisco udi software#
Deploying the OVA Software Just Downloaded Once it is down downloading, we can deploy the OVA file using VMWare vSphere Client. There are no contracts associated with this item from what I understand, it is free to use in a limited fashion. You will be prompted to login and then to Accept the License agreement to download the image, I used my CCO account that I have for my CCIE and was able to download it no problem.
Now you can select the appropriate version, for me I am going to download the OVA version for vMWare. Then select IOS XE Software from the next menu
Click on the Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Once you click on that link you should be presented with the image below. To obtain the Cisco CSR1000V you need to download it from Cisco at this LINK and click on the Download software as seen circled below
We will also configure the CSR1000V to have connectivity back to the “home production” network so that we can SSH/Telnet to these routers when we are labbing.
What is cisco udi how to#
There have been some questions on how to set this up for a home lab and I figured I would cover how I am using it.įor this post, here is what we are going to build – a three (3) node CSR1000V network and three (3) vSwitch Networks to connect the CSR1000Vs together. I have been using the Cisco CSR1000V for my home lab setup for a little bit now.