Cisco CSR V1000 virtual router

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This routers have been found to have very low throughput <2mbps with heavy packet loss during lab experiments. Better option is to use pfsense or Linux machine with firewalld / frr etc.. See appropriate sections of Configure NSX-T 3.0 from scratch with edge cluster and tier gateways for reference.

It is possible to use Cisco CSR V1000 routers on top of KVM / ESXi for some virtual lab / experiments. To do that it was found that below image seemed to boot and work properly:

• csr1000v-universalk9.03.11.02.S.154-1.S2-std-C1-M2560-N3-DS8

Any older and any newer images failed to deploy as ova or had some or other issue.

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