Release Notes for Cisco IOS XRd, IOS XR Release
XRd is a powerful IOS XR virtual platform that supports a wide variety of technology roles such as virtual route reflector (vRR), virtual cell-site router (vCSR), and virtual provider-edge (vPE). It is available in a containerized form-factor enabling both standalone and Kubernetes-based containerized network deployments.
Cisco IOS XRd Overview
XRd is the latest virtual platform from Cisco that brings the highly scalable, feature-rich, and reliable IOS-XR operating system to containerized network deployments. With XR control plane pedigree shared with the likes of Cisco 8000 and data plane capabilities that are derived from the powerful XRv9000, XRd brings the best of both worlds - enabling high scale control plane use cases such as virtual route-reflector (vRR) and high throughput requirements in virtual provider edge (vPE).
XRd is available in two formats:
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XRd Control Plane
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XRd vRouter
Cisco IOS XRd Licensing Model
The Cisco IOS XRd platform offers two types of licensing schemes. This table lists details of Cisco IOS XRd Router's software licenses or entitlements, arranged according to licensing PIDs.
The Cisco IOS XRd instances are pre-loaded with an evaluation license valid for 90 days. For licenses post the evaluation period, you can purchase the XRd licenses using Cisco Smart Licensing.
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Description |
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XRD-VR-CP |
XRd Control Plane |
What's New in Cisco IOS XR Release
Software Features Introduced
The following user scenarios are supported with this release:
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vPE |
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vRR |
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vCSR |
VMware Tanzu based K8s |
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Simulation |
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Cisco is continuously enhancing the product with every release and this section lists key features. It also includes links to detailed documentation, where available.
Cisco IOS XRd supports majority of the Cisco IOS XR technologies.The following sections detail the feature set per user scenarios:
vPE
| Feature | See the Following Documentation |
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L3VPN |
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HSRP |
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VRRP |
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LDP |
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RSVP |
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MPLS TE |
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MPLS OAM |
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MPLS SR |
Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers |
vCSR
| Feature | See the Following Documentation |
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L3VPN |
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HSRP |
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VRRP |
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LDP |
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RSVP |
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MPLS TE |
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MPLS OAM |
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MPLS SR |
Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers |
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EVPN-VPWS |
vRR
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ORR for IPv6 Unicast AF for the single ISIS topology case
XRd: Generic features
| Feature | See the Following Documentation |
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SSH |
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NETCONF |
Use NETCONF Protocol to Define Network Operations with Data Models |
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gNMI |
Use gRPC Protocol to Define Network Operations with Data Models |
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Telemetry |
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Syslog |
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SNMP |
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Flex-CLI |
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ZTP |
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ACLs |
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Call Home |
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Smart Licensing |
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BGP |
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RPL |
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IS-IS |
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OSPF |
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PCE |
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BMP |
Host Requirements
This section details the host requirements for XRd Control Plane :
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XRd Control Plane Host |
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CPU |
x86-64 CPU with at least 2 cores |
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RAM |
4 GB |
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Linux kernel |
Version 4 and above
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Linux cgroups |
Version 1
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XRd Control Plane instance on the host |
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CPU |
1 core minimum |
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RAM |
2 GB minimum |
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Inotify user instances and watches |
4000 |
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XRd Control Plane on AWS EC2 instance |
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Instance Type |
m5.2xlarge |
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Number of threads per processor core |
1 |
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Minimum Disk Size |
8 GB
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Operating System |
Amazon Linux 2 with EKS Optimizations |
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Kernel Settings |
4000 inotify user instances and watches per XRd instance |
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 Note |
For using Docker to run the containers, you need Docker version 18 or above with permission to run Docker containers. |
Note |
Cisco IOS XRd is not supported for production networks on Linux, including Ubuntu or any other distribution. Carefully consider this restriction when planning deployments to avoid potential issues. |
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