Introduction
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I was personally curious as to whether it was possible to build a Cisco Catalyst 8000V for SD-WAN & Routing environment on AWS, so I did some research.
After trying out a few things on the Market Place(AWS), I found Cisco Catalyst 8000V for SD-WAN & Routing as something that looked like it could be built, so I would like to try that out.
from Japanese
There was also a license for the Free Plan of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN C8000v (virtual router), but it seems that users in Japan could not set it up due to a violation of the license terms.
Target audience
- Those who have unavoidable circumstances and want to test Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- A rare person who wants to try using a Cisco router on AWS
- Looking for people with extensive networking experience
Goals
- Deploying Cisco Catalyst 8000V in an AWS environment
- Verify that you can run basic commands
The following is not covered:
- Building the Manager, Controller, and Validator required for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Configuring physical devices such as cEdge
Cisco Documents
https://www.cisco.com/c/ja_jp/td/docs/solutions/CVD/SDWAN/cisco-sdwan-design-guide.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/ja_jp/td/docs/routers/C8000V/AWS/deploying-c8000v-on-amazon-web-services/overview.html
Hands On
- Enter "Market Place" in the search box at the top of the AWS console screen
- The screen will change, so click Detect Product on the left pane.
- After clicking, enter Cisco Catalyst 8000V for SD-WAN & Routing in the center input box.
- Search results will be displayed, so click on the search result
- The Cisco Catalyst 8000V for SD-WAN & Routing Marketplace screen will be displayed, so click the View purchase options button.
Market Place URL：https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-rohvq2cjd4ccg
- The screen will change, so click the Continue to Configuration button.
- ※Clickable after a certain period of time
- After clicking, the Config setting screen will be displayed.
- Change the Region to Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and click the Continue to Launch button.
- The screen will change, so change the drop-down menu under Choose Action to Launch through EC2.
- After making the changes, click the Launch button.
- Enter an appropriate instance name to transition to the EC2 setting screen.
- Select the desired key pair and click the Launch Instance button.
- After a certain period of time has passed, the message "Instance startup has started successfully" will be displayed.
- Click the Show All Instances button
- After a certain amount of time has passed, when the instance status shows 3/3 checks were successful, construction is complete.
- Please connect to the instance using Teraterm.
Commands Check
Now that I've managed to build the C8000V, I'd like to try executing some commands.
Command Refenece：https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/sd-routing/command/reference/sd-routing-cr-book/dapr-cr-book_chapter_01.html
show version
ip-172-31-34-128#show version
Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 17.15.02a
Cisco IOS Software [IOSXE], Virtual XE Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 17.15.2a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc7)
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ROM: IOS-XE ROMMON
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Uptime for this control processor is 15 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload
System image file is "bootflash:packages.conf"
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Technology Package License Information:
Controller-managed
The current throughput level is 20000 kbps
Smart Licensing Status: Smart Licensing Using Policy
cisco C8000V (VXE) processor (revision VXE) with 1892243K/3075K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 9NRP91KBRS6
Router operating mode: Autonomous (SD-Routing)
1 Gigabit Ethernet interface
32768K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
5000596K bytes of physical memory.
11526144K bytes of virtual hard disk at bootflash:.
Configuration register is 0x2102
ip-172-31-34-128#
show running-config
ip-172-31-34-128#show running-config
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 6572 bytes
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! Last configuration change at 14:13:07 UTC Mon Mar 31 2025 by ec2-user
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version 17.15
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
service password-encryption
platform qfp utilization monitor load 80
platform sslvpn use-pd
platform console virtual
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hostname ip-172-31-34-128
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boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
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vrf definition GS
rd 100:100
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address-family ipv4
exit-address-family
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logging persistent size 1000000 filesize 8192 immediate
aaa new-model
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aaa authentication login default local
aaa authorization exec default local none
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aaa session-id common
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login on-success log
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subscriber templating
ipv6 unicast-routing
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crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-3782309302
enrollment selfsigned
subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-3782309302
revocation-check none
rsakeypair TP-self-signed-3782309302
hash sha512
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crypto pki trustpoint SLA-TrustPoint
enrollment pkcs12
revocation-check crl
hash sha512
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crypto pki certificate chain TP-self-signed-3782309302
certificate self-signed 01
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31312F30 2D060355 04030C26 494F532D 53656C66 2D536967 6E65642D 43657274
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34375A17 0D333530 33333131 34303534 375A3031 312F302D 06035504 030C2649
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30393330 32308201 22300D06 092A8648 86F70D01 01010500 0382010F 00308201
0A028201 0100A2BD 2092EB3F 3A9C1C18 F3F04F95 847A5122 82DD97E0 55AC1145
AC91A238 620E6EF8 7994251E F609513A 83229BD3 205F856F 9A229B82 637893F6
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71537E61 75616E30 BC71A24D 67055E3E 69161F5D 285605B6 B21DFB4A 66373B21
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300D0609 2A864886 F70D0101 0D050003 82010100 77AB683C BF306342 7404BD3A
7F54A538 B94BC65C 6491D762 37152441 D4E81FCE 5E25057E E1CDA101 E2C22105
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6377A712 A80CEE5A 2AEC5738 45D37228 D8C63C7C C256B62B E338558D D942B9A2
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0DAE6D79 6DC7D626 4B60001B 9273BE1E 3AA1B4E1
quit
crypto pki certificate chain SLA-TrustPoint
certificate ca 01
30820321 30820209 A0030201 02020101 300D0609 2A864886 F70D0101 0B050030
32310E30 0C060355 040A1305 43697363 6F312030 1E060355 04031317 43697363
6F204C69 63656E73 696E6720 526F6F74 20434130 1E170D31 33303533 30313934
3834375A 170D3338 30353330 31393438 34375A30 32310E30 0C060355 040A1305
43697363 6F312030 1E060355 04031317 43697363 6F204C69 63656E73 696E6720
526F6F74 20434130 82012230 0D06092A 864886F7 0D010101 05000382 010F0030
82010A02 82010100 A6BCBD96 131E05F7 145EA72C 2CD686E6 17222EA1 F1EFF64D
CBB4C798 212AA147 C655D8D7 9471380D 8711441E 1AAF071A 9CAE6388 8A38E520
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D697DF7F 28
quit
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license udi pid C8000V sn 9NRP91KBRS6
memory free low-watermark processor 189210
diagnostic bootup level minimal
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username ec2-user privilege 15
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redundancy
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interface VirtualPortGroup0
vrf forwarding GS
ip address 192.168.35.101 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
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interface GigabitEthernet1
ip address dhcp
ip nat outside
negotiation auto
ipv6 address dhcp
ipv6 enable
ipv6 nd autoconfig default-route
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iox
ip forward-protocol nd
ip tcp window-size 8192
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ip http server
ip http secure-server
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 GigabitEthernet1 172.31.32.1
ip route vrf GS 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 GigabitEthernet1 172.31.32.1 global
ip nat inside source list GS_NAT_ACL interface GigabitEthernet1 vrf GS overload
ip ssh bulk-mode 131072
ip ssh rsa keypair-name ssh-key
ip ssh pubkey-chain
username ec2-user
key-hash ssh-rsa 20F55DF574092980C9981FCF4472EB7C
ip ssh server algorithm publickey ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 ssh-ed25519 ssh-rsa x509v3-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 x509v3-ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 x509v3-ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
ip scp server enable
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ip access-list standard GS_NAT_ACL
10 permit 192.168.35.0 0.0.0.255
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control-plane
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line con 0
stopbits 1
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
transport input ssh
line vty 5 20
transport input ssh
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app-hosting appid guestshell
app-vnic gateway1 virtualportgroup 0 guest-interface 0
guest-ipaddress 192.168.35.102 netmask 255.255.255.0
app-default-gateway 192.168.35.101 guest-interface 0
name-server0 8.8.8.8
netconf-yang feature candidate-datastore
sd-routing
end
show vlan brief
ip-172-31-34-128#show vlan brief
VLAN Name Status Ports
---- -------------------------------- --------- -------------------------------
1 default active
1002 fddi-default act/unsup
1003 token-ring-default act/unsup
1004 fddinet-default act/unsup
1005 trnet-default act/unsup
I was unable to execute commands related to show sd-router,
so I suspect that registration with vManage may be required.
Benefits of this article
You can touch the Cisco Catalyst C8000V without purchasing a license from Cisco
☞☞It lowers the hurdle for verification in personal environmentsExpand the scope of network design using AWS
☞☞Flexible operation is possible because Cisco routers can be built in a WS environment.
However, since this is not the currently released 17.16.X, you will need to take into account the differences with the actual environment.
（Personally, I think it would be better to create a CDK template since it would be nice to be able to test Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN-related items.）
Thank you for reading the article to the end.
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