The Cisco CSR 1000V Series lowers the barriers to enterprise adoption of a hybrid cloud model by extending the enterprise WAN to provider-hosted clouds.
Primary features include:
  • Flexible virtual form factor designed for multi-tenant, provider-hosted clouds
  • Complete, hypervisor-isolated, multi-service router instance for each tenant
  • Proven, familiar, enterprise-class Cisco IOS Software networking services
  • Feature and operational consistency with Cisco physical form-factor routers
  • Component of end-to-end WAN architecture with Cisco Integrated Services Routers and Cisco Aggregation Services Routers
Primary use cases include:
  • Secure VPN gateway
  • MPLS WAN termination
  • Data center network extension
  • Control and traffic redirection
Primary Benefits:
  • Direct connectivity improves the response time of cloud-hosted applications
  • Private WAN integration improves security, performance, and predictability
  • Enterprise control, visibility, and policy consistency reduce security risks
  • Feature consistency and product familiarity improve operational efficiency
  • Extension of the data center network to a cloud simplifies application on-boarding
1. Download CSR 1000v Software:
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you can start to download either one of following package from this page (Cisco IOS XE Software Link)

  • csr1000v-universalk9.03.12.00.S.154-2.S-std.ova
  • csr1000v-universalk9.03.12.00.S.154-2.S-std.iso

Keep this in mind, CSR1000v itself comes with a 60 day license for 50Mbps throughput. After that expires it drops to 2.5Mbps.

2. Creating VM
Serial connection has to be redirected to named pipe when loading into Vmware workstation. Also four Interface has been added into VM.