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Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Overview
About Cisco Catalyst 8000V
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software or Cisco Catalyst 8000V is a software-based, virtual router that combines the functionalities of Cisco Cloud Services Router (Cisco CSR1000V) and Cisco Integrated Services Virtual Router (Cisco ISRv) into a single image that is intended for deployment in on-prem branches, data centers, colocation data centers, and public clouds.
Cisco Catalyst 8000V supports NIM modules on Cisco ENCS platforms, runs on any x86 platform, and is supported on ESXi, KVM, NFVIS hypervisors. Further, you can deploy this router on public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Alibaba Cloud.
When you deploy Cisco Catalyst 8000V as a VM, the Cisco IOS XE software behaves similar to a traditional Cisco router (hardware platform). You can configure different features depending on the Cisco IOS XE software version.
Features
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Hardware independence: The Cisco Catalyst 8000V router uses the benefits of virtualization in the cloud to provide hardware independence. Since the Cisco Catalyst 8000V runs as a virtual machine, you can use this router on any x86 hardware that the virtualization platform supports.
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Sharing of host hardware resources: The host server hardware resources such as CPU cores, memory, and disk are managed by the hypervisor, and these resources are shared among the guest VMs. You can regulate the amount of hardware resources assigned to a specific Cisco Catalyst 8000V VM instance.
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Flexibility in deployment: You can easily move a VM from one server to another. Thus, you can move a Cisco Catalyst 8000V instance from a server in one physical location to a server in another physical location without moving any hardware resources.
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Enhanced software security - Secure Object Store: In Cisco Catalyst 8000V, storage partitions for NVRAM, licensing, and other data are created as object stores. The individual object stores are encrypted to ensure data security, and this product is Cisco Secure Development life cycle (CSDL) compliant. Further, Cisco Catalyst 8000V supports a 16G disk cycle profile.
Hardware Requirements
For hardware requirements and installation instructions, see the Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Installation And Configuration Guide.
Software Images and Licenses
The following sections describe the licensing and software images for Cisco Catalyst 8000V.
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Software Licenses
The Cisco Catalyst 8000V is licensed based on throughput, feature-set, and the licensing term. This product supports Cisco Smart Licensing Usage Policy as well as Cisco DNA Licensing. Based on whether you want to go for purchased licenses that go with the Cisco Catalyst 8000V instance, or a subscription-based license, choose one of the following options:
Subscription-Based Licensing via Cisco DNA
You can purchase a subscription license for Cisco Catalyst 8000V through the following three licenses that are available via Cisco DNA:
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Cisco Catalyst 8000V - Network-Premier
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Cisco Catalyst 8000V - Network-Advantage
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Cisco Catalyst 8000V - Network-Essentials
For more information on Cisco Catalyst 8000V DNA licensing, see Cisco DNA Software for SD-Wan and Routing Ordering Guide.
Bring-Your-Own-Licensing
You also have an option to purchase and use licenses with Cisco Catalyst 8000V as a Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) instance or as a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) instance.
To use a Cisco Catalyst 8000V - BYOL license, see Licenses and Licensing Models to know to how install and configure your license.
If you have upgraded to Cisco Catalyst 8000V from a Cisco CSR 1000V or a Cisco ISRV, you must use Smart Licensing Using Policy (SLP). Traditional licenses do not work after the upgrade.
Pay-As-You-Go Licensing
Cisco Catalyst 8000V supports the PAYG Licensing model with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Cisco Catalyst 8000V hourly-billed AMI or Pay As You Go licensing model allows you to consume an instance for a defined period of time. In this licensing model, you can directly launch the instance from the AWS or Azure Marketplace and start using the instances. The licenses are embedded in the image.
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For demo or evaluation licenses, contact your Cisco Account Team if you have a direct purchase agreement with Cisco, or your Cisco Partner or Reseller. |
For a more detailed overview on Cisco Licensing, go to https://cisco.com/go/licensingguide.
Software Image Nomenclature for Installation Files
The Cisco Catalyst 8000V installation file nomenclature indicates properties supported by the router in a given release.
For example, these are filename examples for the Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.13.1a release:
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c8000v-universalk9.17.13.01a.ova
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c8000v-universalk9.17.13.01a.iso
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c8000v-universalk9.17.13.01a.qcow2
The following table lists the filename attributes along with its properties:
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universalk9 |
Specifies the package that you are installing. Images with the universalk9 designation in the image name refers to a universal image that offers all the Cisco IOS features including strong payload cryptography features such as IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, and Secure Unified Communications. This image also supports security features like Zone-Based Firewall, Intrusion Prevention through the SECNPE-K9 license. |
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17.13.01a |
Indicates that the software image is mapped to the Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.13.1a release. |
Product Field Notice
Cisco publishes Field Notices to notify customers and partners about significant issues in Cisco products that typically require an upgrade, workaround or other user action. For more information, see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/field-notice-overview.html.
We recommend that you review the field notices to determine whether your software or hardware platforms are affected. You can access the field notices from https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/tsd-products-field-notice-summary.html#%7Etab-product-categories.
New and Enhanced Features for Cisco IOS XE 17.13.x
New and Enhanced Features for Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a
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Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a is the first release for Cisco Catalyst 8000V in the Cisco IOS XE 17.13.x release series. |
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Support for Intel E810 NIC for on-prem ESXi and KVM hosts |
Cisco Catalyst 8000V now supports Intel E810 NIC for on-prem ESXi and KVM hosts. This enhancement optimizes high-performance server workloads and helps improve network performance. |
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Cisco Catalyst 8000V now supports c6in instance types for AWS deployments. This instance type uses third Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors that provide greater network optimization and higher performance. |
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Support for Mellanox CX-5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS |
Cisco Catalyst 8000V now supports Mellanox CX-5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. |
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The Application Performance Monitor feature is a simplified framework that enables you to configure intent-based performance monitors. With this feature, you can view real-time, end-to-end application performance filtered by client segments, network segments, and server segments. |
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Cisco SD-Routing Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud extends enterprise WAN to public clouds. This multicloud solution helps to integrate public cloud infrastructure into the Cisco Catalyst SD-Routing devices. With these capabilities, the devices can access the applications hosted in the cloud. |
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This feature introduces support for configuring retry time intervals for GARP messages on the BD-VIF interface. You can configure this feature using the global ip arp nat-garp-retry and ip nat inside source static commands. |
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With this feature, you can upgrade the software image on the supported Cisco SD-Routing devices with an option to schedule the upgrade process at specified time. This allows you to avoid any downtime due to the software upgrade process. |
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The Configuration Group feature provides a simple, reusable, and structured method to configure the SD-Routing device using Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. |
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From Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a, Segment Routing is supported over the IPv6 dataplane for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) on L3VPN networks using On-Demand Next Hop (ODN). |
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Cisco SD-WAN Manager allows you to measure the network speed and available bandwidth between a device and an iPerf3 server. The speed tests measure the upload speed from the source device to the selected or specified iperf3 server, and measure the download speed from the iperf3 server to the source device. |
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This feature introduces an algorithm to ensure that the strength of the IKE (IKEv1 and IKEv2) SA encryption cipher is greater than or equal to the strength of its child IPsec SA encryption cipher. To enable this algorithm, use the crypto ipsec ike sa-strength-enforcement command. For more details, see Cisco IOS Security Command Reference. |
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Support for Flexible NetFlow Application Visibility on SD-Routing Devices |
The Flexible NetFlow (FNF) feature provides statistics on packets flowing through the device and helps to identify the tunnel or service VPNs. Also, it provides visibility for all the traffic that passes through the VPN0 on Cisco SD-Routing devices by using the Application Intelligence Engine (SAIE). |
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This feature allows you to capture the bidirectional IPv6 traffic data to troubleshoot connectivity on the SD-Routing devices. |
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From IOS XE 17.13.1a, the device maintains the neighbor information even after the session is terminated. To configure this, use the bgp listen persistent command for all dynamic neighbors and the bgp listen range peer-group persistent command for specific neighbors. |
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SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a solution designed to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control (MAC) architecture into Cisco IOS XE platforms. From Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a, SELinux is enabled by default in Enforcing mode for Cisco IOS XE platforms. |
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This enhancement introduces support for Suite B ciphers with GET VPN on Cisco Catalyst 8000V. |
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From Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a onwards, using RTP keepalive packets, CUBE supports media transmission in the NAT environment. |
Resolved and Open Bugs - Cisco IOS XE 17.13.x
Resolved Bugs - Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a
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Add verbose log to indicate grant ra-auto un configures grant auto in PKI server |
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Device QoS more than four remark with set-cos not work |
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NAT64 prefix is not originated into OMP |
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IOS XE router may experience unexpected reset while executing the show utd engine standard statistics command |
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Crash observed when exporting PKCS12 to terminal via SSH CLI |
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Static route keeps advertising via OMP even though there is no route |
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OMP to BGP redistribution leads to incorrect AS_Path installation on the chosen Next-Hop |
Open Bugs - Cisco IOS XE 17.13.1a
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C8000V crashes after changing NAT HSL configuration |
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C8000V throttles throughput to 20Mbps while it must be 250Mbps |
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WLC segmentation fault crashes with Network Mobility Services Protocol (nmsp) |
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SNMP unable to poll tunnel data after a minute |
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Endpoint tracker triggers a CPU hog |
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Tracker for TLOC extension is down even though TLOC is up and there is ICMP reachability |
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Failed to connect to device : x.x.x.x Port: 830 user : vmanage-admin error : Connection failed |
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Router crashes due to crypto IKMP process |
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Device FTM crashes with SIG enabled |
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SNMPbulkget cannot get loss, latency and jitter for ProbeClassTable & ClassIntervalTable OIDs |
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When RADIUS is down and there is an IKE-AUTH request received, the box stops replying to DPD packets |
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SNMPbulkget breaks the OID appRouteStatisticsTable after minute not returning the correct order |
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Device loses security parameter after upgrade |
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Device undergoes PKI related crash after failing a CRL fetch |
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IP SLA probe for endpoint tracker does not work once endpoint tracker is changed until reload |
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Device unexpectedly reboots due to QFP exception |
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Unexpected NAT translation occurs in a specific network |
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IOS XE:Traffic not encrypted and droped over IPSEC SVTI tunnel |
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20.13 SSE:401 Error thrown when switching from SSE to SIG |
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[SIT]: SSE tunnels don't come up with dialer interface relax check in IKE |
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Device unable to process hidden characters in a file while trying to use bootstrap method |
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IP SLA does not have checks for ICMP probes to be sent on source interface. |
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UTD deployment failing if deployed from remote server hostname rather than IP. |
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Device crash caused by continuous interface flap, interface associated to many IPSec interfaces |
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AAA: Template push fails when AAA authorization is set to local. |
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Device fails to upgrade due to CDB issue. |
Related Documentation
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Product Page
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Data Sheet
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Installation And Configuration Guide
Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software High Availability Configuration Guide
Troubleshooting Guide for Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software
Smart Licensing Using Policy for Cisco Enterprise Routing Platforms
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