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 virtual VGA console or the console on the virtual serial port.
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If you want to access and configure the Cisco CSR 1000v from the serial port on the hypervisor instead of the virtual VGA console, you should provision the VM to use this setting before powering on the VM and booting the router. For more information, see theIntroduction to Accessing the Cisco CSR 1000v through the Virtual Serial Port |
SUMMARY STEPS
- Power-up the VM. Within 5 seconds of powering on the VM, choose a console described from one of the following three steps (2, 3,or 4) to select a console to view the router bootup and to access the Cisco CSR 1000v CLI.
- (Optional) Select Auto Console : (Cisco IOS XE 3.13S and later, and IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 and later)
- (Optional) Select Virtual Console
- (Optional)Select Serial Console
- Telnet to the VM using one of the following two commands: telnet:// host-ipaddress : portnumber or, from a UNIX xTerm terminal: telnet host-ipaddress portnumber The following example shows the Cisco CSR 1000v initial boot output on the VM.
- After booting, the system presents a screen showing the main software image and the Golden Image, with an instruction that the highlighted entry is booted automatically in three seconds. Do not select the option for the Golden Image and allow the main software image to boot.
DETAILED STEPS
Step 1 |
Power-up the VM. Within 5 seconds of powering on the VM, choose a console described from one of the following three steps (2, 3,or 4) to select a console to view the router bootup and to access the Cisco CSR 1000v CLI. |
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Step 2 |
(Optional) Select Auto Console : (Cisco IOS XE 3.13S and later, and IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 and later) Choose this option to use automatic console detection. When two virtual serial ports are detected, the IOS XE CLI will be available on the first virtual serial port and the IOS XE diagnostic CLI will be available on the second virtual serial port. If two virtual serial ports are not detected, the IOS XE CLI will be available on the virtual VGA console. This is the default setting and the Cisco CSR 1000v will boot using the automatic console detection if another option is not selected within the 5 second timeframe. Note (for VMware ESXi ): If you are installing on VMware ESXi without a virtual serial port concentrator (vSPC), this option may not be able to properly detect virtual serial ports when there is an active connection to the virtual serial ports. If you are not using a vSPC and wish to use virtual serial ports, choose the Serial Console option. Note (for Microsoft Hyper-V ): If you are installing on Microsoft Hyper-V, this option may be unable to properly detect virtual serial ports when there is an active connection to the virtual serial ports. If you wish to use virtual serial ports, you should choose the Serial Console option. (Optional)Automatic selection of virtual serial ports For this option, the virtual serial ports must already be present on the VM. The virtual serial port must already be present on the VM for this option to work. If you are installing on VMware ESXi, see Creating Serial Console Access in VMware ESXi. If you are installing in KVM environments, see Creating the Serial Console Access in KVM. If you are installing in Microsoft Hyper-V environments, see Creating the Serial Console Access in Microsoft Hyper-V. The Cisco CSR 1000v starts the boot process. |
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(Optional) Select Virtual Console Choose this option to use the virtual VGA console. If you choose to use the virtual console, the rest of the steps in this procedure do not apply. On Cisco IOS XE 3.12S and earlier, this is the default setting and the Cisco CSR 1000v boots using the Virtual Console if another option is not selected within the 5 second timeframe. The Cisco CSR 1000v starts the boot process. |
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(Optional)Select 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 Creating Serial Console Access in VMware ESXi. If you are installing in KVM environments, see Creating the Serial Console Access in KVM. If you are installing in Microsoft Hyper-V environments, see Creating the Serial Console Access in Microsoft Hyper-V.
The Cisco CSR 1000v starts the boot process. |
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Telnet to the VM using one of the following two commands: telnet:// host-ipaddress : portnumber or, from a UNIX xTerm terminal: telnet host-ipaddress portnumber The following example shows the Cisco CSR 1000v initial boot output on the VM. Example:
The system first calculates the SHA-1, which may take a few minutes. Once the SHA-1 is calculated, the kernel is brought up. Once the initial installation process is complete, the .iso package file is removed from the virtual CD-ROM, and the VM is rebooted. This enables the Cisco CSR 1000v to boot normally off the virtual Hard Drive.
The time required for the Cisco CSR 1000v to boot may vary depending on the release and the hypervisor used. |
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After booting, the system presents a screen showing the main software image and the Golden Image, with an instruction that the highlighted entry is booted automatically in three seconds. Do not select the option for the Golden Image and allow the main software image to boot.
You can now enter the router configuration environment by entering the standard commands enable and then configure terminal. The following should be noted for the initial installation: When the Cisco CSR 1000v is booted for the first time, the mode the router boots in depends on the release version. For Cisco IOS XE 3.13S and later, and IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 and later, the Cisco CSR 1000v boots with the AX package set of features and throughput is limited to 100 Kbps. For Cisco IOS XE 3.12S and earlier, the Cisco CSR 1000v boots in a limited mode that provides limited feature support and throughput is limited to 2.5 Mbps. You must install the software license or enable an evaluation license to obtain the supported throughput and features. Depending on the release version, you must enable the boot level or change the maximum throughput level, and reboot the Cisco CSR 1000v. For more information, see Installing Cisco CSR 1000v Licenses. For Cisco IOS XE 3.13S and later, and IOS XE Denali 16.3.1 and later, the installed license technology package must match the package level configured with the license boot level command. If the license package does not match the configured setting, throughput is limited to 100 Kbps. (VMware ESXi only) If you manually created the VM using the .iso file, then you need to configure the basic router properties. You can use either the Cisco IOS XE CLI commands or you can manually configure the properties in the vSphere GUI. For more information, see Editing the Basic Properties of Cisco CSR 1000v using vSphere. |