Chapter 8. CSR 1000V Automation, Orchestration, and Troubleshooting

You already know to install a CSR on different hypervisor environments. In a large-scale deployment, manual processes increase the operational complexity of managing an NFV infrastructure. Automation in provisioning and management plays a major role in adopting NFV services in the data center or cloud environment. In this chapter you learn about the various tools available for simplifying orchestration and management of the CSR 1000V.

The terms orchestration and automation are sometimes used interchangeably. However, they are different. Automation involves achieving the completion of a single task, such as configuring a service on a router. Orchestration, on the other hand, involves ...

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