Home Lab Series: Mini ESXi Hosts at The Network Edge
This all started when I saw that Cisco used to offer a product called SRE-V which was basically ESXi packaged up to run on their SRE
I purchased 4 of the Cisco SRE (Service Ready Engine) Service Modules SM-SRE-910-K9, these come with 8GB of RAM and 2 x 500GB SATA 5400RPM HDDs and an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo L9400 which is a dual core 1.86GHz CPU.
Router Configuration
interface Port-channel1
description Uplink to Cisco WS-C3750X Stack
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
channel-group 1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
channel-group 1
!
interface Embedded-Service-Engine0/0
description Cisco Integrated Management Controller Express v1.0.2
ip unnumbered 10.0.81.2 255.255.255.0
service-module ip address 10.0.81.1 255.255.255.0
service-module ip default-gateway 10.0.81.2
service-module enable
!
Links
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/1900-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/data_sheet_c78-553913.html
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/interfaces/software/feature/guide/ism-sm-sre.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/36689/intel-core-2-duo-processor-sl9400-6m-cache-1-86-ghz-1066-mhz-fsb.html
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/services-ready-engine-sre-modules/product_bulletin_c25-680185.html
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-express/installation_guide_c07-640002.html#wp9000412
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/sre_v/2-0/user/guide/install_configure_srev/software.html
Downloads
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/cimce/1-0/quick/guide/cimceqs.pdf
- https://developer.cisco.com/site/srev/documentation/ <– IOS, CIMCE and SRE-V v2.0.2 binary images are here too.