Hi, We use the CSR1000V on ESX as well. From my experience - the code that calculates the load of the router is most likely not aware it runs within a VM so the calculation are done in relation to 100% CPU utilisation, but since the number of allocated cycles might change the resulting number is relative. What ESX reports is probably closer to truth (but also take it with a grain of salt). In our tests we pushed over 2.5Gb/s through a single instance of CSR1000V and over 500k pps (AX licence, with pinned resources) for prolonged periods of time with no problems. I do not think you should worry about that process.
kind regards Pshem On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 at 08:35 Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2015, at 1:24, Robert Hass wrote: > > > I deployed Cisco CSR 1000V as edge router in DataCenter. > > Deploying any variety of software-based router at one's edges is a > mistake, and has been for many years. > > The Cisco virtual stuff is great for labs, training, testing, and so > forth - kudos to them for producing it, and I hope they do even more > with their virtual versions. > > That being said, there's no way I'd deploy any of it to route actual > packets on actual production networks. Nothing against Cisco nor their > virtual stuff, but in any kind of Internet-facing environment, > software-only doesn't scale. > > At some point in the future, this will change, as hardware-based > routers/switches/whatnots will take the 'nFV' trend even further, and > software hypervisor-based ones will gain direct, high-performance access > to serious hardware-based NICs, NPUs, et. al. But for now, I personally > think it's way too soon to be doing this in production environments. > > ----------------------------------- > Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
