Release Notes for Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router, IOS XR Release 24.4.2

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Overview

The Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router is based on Cisco IOS XR software, so it inherits and shares the wide breadth of routing functionality available on other IOS XR platforms. The IOS XR features available on the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router are discussed in Supported Cisco IOS XR Technologies section.

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Appliance supports the same look and feel as Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and North-bound APIs. Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router does not support hardware specific configurations. The configuration commands for control plane and data plane features follow the same syntax as the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. See Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers command references for more information on configuration commands.

What's New in Cisco IOS XR Release 24.4.2

Cisco IOS XR Release 24.4.2 is a new feature release for Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Appliance model.


Note

The Cisco IOS XR Release 24.4.2 does not support XRv 9000 Router virtual machines hosted on AWS, VMWare ESXi, or Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM).

For more details on the Cisco IOS XR release model and associated support, see Software Lifecycle Support Statement - IOS XR.

Software Features Enhanced and Introduced

Feature Description

System Setup and Software Installation

UCS C220 M7 based Appliance Support on XRv9000

The Cisco UCS C220 M7 Rack Server is designed for high-density performance, catering to virtualization, collaboration, and bare metal applications. The M7 based appliance features a 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPU with 28 cores and 128GB of RAM. Key enhancements include PCIe Gen 5.0, a DDR5 memory bus, and the ability to utilize 480GB M.2 Bootable SATA Intel SSD drives. Furthermore, we now provide M7 appliance support for both 25G and 100G models, effectively succeeding the end-of-life M5 UCS Server.

The Cisco UCS C220 M7 appliance now supports two NICs:

  • XRV-M7-APLN-25G: The Cisco-Intel E810 NICs support 10G/25G speeds and handle throughputs up to 25Gbps.

  • XRV-M7-APLN-100G: The Cisco-Mellanox ConnectX-6 NICs handle up to 100Gbps throughput.

System Requirements

Appliance Model

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Appliance is the pre-installed Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router software that is sent from the factory on a bare metal UCS server hardware. It supports hyper scalability as it can scale to 70 Million route prefixes when run as a Virtual Route Reflector. Therefore, the extra layer of software (hypervisor) is not required.

The Appliance also supports Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) which allows easier insertion into existing networks.

Table 1. Specification of the Cisco XRv 9000 Appliance

Parameters

Supported

Form Factor

1 RU

Processor

4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor

Intel I5420+ 2GHz/205W 28C/52.5MB DDR5 4400MT/s

Memory size

128GB (8x16GB DDR5-4800 RDIMM 1Rx8)

Internal storage

480GB M.2 Boot SATA Intel SSD

Software version

Cisco IOS-XR version 24.4.2 and later

Firmware version

BIOS version: C220M7.4.3.5a.0_XRV9K

BMC version: 4.3 (5.240021)

Physical NICs

  • Cisco-Intel E810XXVDA4L 4x25/10 GbE SFP28 PCIe

  • Cisco-MLNX MCX623106AS-CDAT 2x100GbE QSFP56 PCIe

Firmware Update Available for UCS M7 Appliance (xrv9k-ucs-c220m7-huu-container-4.3.5.250001.tar.gz)

A firmware update package, xrv9k-ucs-c220m7-huu-container-4.3.5.250001.tar.gz, is now available for the UCS M7 appliance. This package includes firmware for both the CIMC and BIOS, incorporating a mandatory security fix.

The SHA256 checksum for the package is:

fbc684125becb2918191481637dcc3421d01c87b9063e8432843a5c256b0361f

The SHA256 checksum for the CIMC and BIOS binaries are:

  • bios.pkg 16b8640249ec199cf096f462601dc587deed9346442a2f2081548da7dab5a4f0

  • cimc.bin 8f932da5114bfbd220dad06b9ec74a3bc45fcbf69a5d732519231f4970040ef8

For detailed instructions on extracting and installing the firmware, please refer to the documentation at Firmware Files.

Optic Support

Product

Product Code

Producr Recommendation

Cisco 100GBASE LR4 QSFP Transceiver, LC, 10km over SMF

Cisco QSFP-100G-LR4-S

XRv9000 Appliance with UCS-C220 M7 server - 4X10/25G

Cisco 100GBASE SR4 QSFP Transceiver, MPO, 100m over OM4 MMF

Cisco QSFP-100G-SR4-S

Cisco 10GBASE SFP+, Short Range

Cisco SFP-10G-SR

XRv9000 Appliance with UCS-C220 M7 server, 2X100G

Cisco 10GBASE SFP+, Long Range

Cisco SFP-10G-LR

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Licensing Model

The Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router supports activation using Cisco Smart Licensing. By default the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router (without license) is rate limited to 200 Kbps.

For more information on licensing model supported on Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router, see the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Smart Licensing chapter in the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Installation and Configuration Guide.

See Cisco Smart Software Licensing Overview for more information on Cisco Smart Licensing.

License Ordering Information

The Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router offers a flexible licensing scheme, with multiple tiers to choose from, such as Scale, and Throughput. This table lists details of Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router's pool of software licenses or entitlements, arranged according to licensing PIDs.


Note

The XRv9000 router only consumes and reports VPE licenses. VRR licenses are not consumed or reported.
Table 2. Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router UCS M7 Based Appliance PIDS

License PID

Description

XRV-M7-APLN-25G

XRv9000 Appliance with UCS-C220 M7 server, Quantity 1-4X10/25G NIC

XRV-M7-APLN-100G

XRv9000 Appliance with UCS-C220 M7 server, Quantity 2-2X100G NIC

Supported Cisco IOS XR Technologies

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router supports selected Cisco IOS XR technologies.

This table lists the major Cisco IOS XR technologies Cisco IOS XRv 9000 supports. Not all features in a given technology may be supported. To verify support for specific features, use Cisco Feature Navigator.

Table 3. Cisco IOS XR Technologies Supported on the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router

Feature

See the Following Documentation

Introduced in Release

  • BFD over Logical Bundle

Release 6.1.2

  • Bi-directional Policing and Marking

Release 5.4.0

  • BGP Persistence

Release 6.2.1

  • BGP Optimal Route Reflector

Release 6.0.1

  • Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) IPoE

Release 6.3.1

Customize Installation using Golden ISO

Customize Installation using Golden ISO

 Release 7.3.1

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Deployment on AWS

Release 6.3.1

Create User Profiles and Assign Privileges

System Setup and Software Installation Guide for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers

Release 7.1.1

  • Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IPv4

Release 6.3.1

  • Hierarchical Policers (including conform aware)

Release 6.0.1

  • IPv4 Routing

  • IPv6 Routing

  • OSPF

  • ISIS

Release 5.4.0

  • IPSLA

  • Platform Automated Monitoring

Release 6.0.0

  • IPv4 and IPv6 ACL

Release 5.4.0

  • IPv4 L3VPN

  • 6PE, 6VPE

Release 5.4.0

  • Link Aggregation Group (LAG)

Release 6.1.2

  • LDP

Release 5.4.0

  • LPTS

Release 5.4.0

  • MPLS

Release 5.4.0

  • MP-BGP, EBGP PE-CE

Release 5.4.0

  • RT Constriant

Release 6.2.1

  • Segment Routing over IPv6

Release 6.6.1

  • Telemetry

Release 6.0.0

  • The Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)

Release 6.0.1

  • VRF Support on Docker and LXC Containers

Release 6.3.1

  • SRv6 Traffic Engineering

Release 7.3.2

Generic Route Encapsulation using IPv6

MPLS Layer 3 VPN Configuration Guide

Release 7.3.3

  • Running High Availability (HA) redundancy application for AWS

  • QoS on IPv4 Release GRE Tunnels

  • Increase in BFD scale limit and BFD sessions

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Installation and Configuration Guide

Release 7.3.3

  • Updated DPDK Driver Version

  • Enhanced router performance and scales

  • ACL Based Forwarding (ABF)

  • Redirect IPV4 and IPv6 traffic using PBR

  • Support for IPv6 over SR-MPLS through a GRE Tunnel towards an IPv6 Next Hop device

  • BFD on GRE Tunnel Interface

Release Notes for Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Routers, IOS XR Release 7.3.3

Release 7.3.3

gNMI Bundling of Telemetry Updates

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router Installation and Configuration Guide

Release 7.8.1

Auto-Save and Copy Router Configuration Using Public Key Authentication

General Administration on Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers

Release 7.10.1

Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH

System Security Configuration Guide for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers

Release 24.1.1

Caveats

There are no caveats in this release.

Other Important Information

  • For the XRv 9000 platform, minimum transmission period supported for the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is 200 milliseconds.

Upgrading Cisco IOS XR Software

Cisco IOS XR Software is installed and activated from modular packages, allowing specific features or software patches to be installed, upgraded, or downgraded without affecting unrelated processes. Software packages can be upgraded or downgraded on all supported card types, or on a single card (node).


Note

The FPD related commands are not supported on IOS XRv 9000 Appliance. That includes fpd auto-upgrade command.

Cisco IOS XR Error messages

To view, search, compare, and download Cisco IOS XR Error Messages, refer to the Cisco IOS XR Error messages tool.

Cisco IOS XR MIBs

To determine the MIBs supported by platform and release, refer to the Cisco IOS XR MIBs tool.