Cisco CSR 1000v Series

If you manually create the VM and you plan to use the Cisco CSR 1000v REST API, you must configure
the HTTPS port using the Cisco IOS XE CLI.
Note
Figure 5: Task Overview for Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v VM
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Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v in VMware ESXi Environments
Overview of Tasks for Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v VM