Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Overview
vNIC Requirements for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
vNIC Hot Add Support
vNIC Hot Remove Support
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
Hypervisor vNIC Requirements for Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3
vNIC Requirements for VMware ESXi
NIC Types Supported
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
vNIC Hot Add Support (Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver)
vNIC Hot Remove Support (Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver)
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
vNIC Requirements for Citrix XenServer
NIC Types Supported
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
vNIC Hot Add Support
vNIC Hot Remove Support
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
vNIC Requirements for KVM
NIC Types Supported
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
vNIC Hot Add Support
vNIC Hot Remove Support
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
vNIC Requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
NIC Types Supported
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
Value
8 (See
latest/UserGuide/
using-eni.html#AvailableIpPerENI)
No
No
No
Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Software Configuration Guide
Hypervisor Support
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/
Value
VMXNET3ixgbe (Intel 10Gb PCI
Express NIC Driver) ixgbef
10
Yes
No
Yes
Value
VIF-netfront(pmap)
7
Yes
No
Yes
Value
Virtio, ixgbevf, ixgbbe
26
Yes
No
Yes
Value
NetVSC
8
17