63,80 EUR

incl. 16 % VAT
(Net price: 55,00 EUR)

CHR, short for Cloud Hosted Router, is a new approach specifically made for Virtual Machines both locally and in the cloud. Optimised drivers, a new and more affordable licensing scheme, transferable licenses and more. CHR is a special installation image, which is available for free on our download. The Cloud Core product line will provide a viable alternative to the Juniper MX5 and Cisco ASR-900x series of routers for ethernet based enterprise and small ISP networks. It will also provide users with a Mikrotik supported platform that can provide over 10gigabit of throughput, where previously they were forced to use a 3rd party x86 server.

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Cloud Hosted Router (CHR):
Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version meant for running as a virtual machine. It supports x86 64-bit architecture and can be used on most of popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM and others. CHR has full RouterOS features enabled by default but has a different licensing model than other RouterOS versions.
CHR Licensing (there are 4 license levels):

• free
• p1perpetual-1 ($45)
• p10perpetual-10 ($95)
• p-unlimitedperpetual-unlimited ($250)

60-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels. To get the free trial license, you have to have an account on the mikrotik.com as all the license management will happen there.

Perpetual is a lifetime license (buy once, use forever). It is possible to transfer a perpetual license to another CHR instance.

A running CHR instance will indicate the time when it has to access the account server to renew it's license. If the CHR instance will not be able to renew the license it will behave as if trial period has ran out and will not allow to upgrade the RouterOS to a newer version.

Please take care, that the CHR is always connected with the Internet through licensing, the device should syncing with the Licensing-Server of Mikrotik every 4 weeks. If you pass this routine you have another 4 extra weeks to.

Please notice the official Mikrotik-Wiki: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CHR - You can also find this as PDF as attachment of this article

Downloads

• 1How to Install Cloud Hosted Router on VMWare Fusion
• 2How to Install Cloud Hosted Router on VMWare ESXi 6.5

How to Install Cloud Hosted Router on VMWare Fusion

Video instruction

Step by Step Instruction

Create a new virtual machine

• Step 1:

• Step 2:

• Step 3: Choose existing virtual disk

• Step 4: Select the file you downloaded from mikrotik.com download page

• Step 5:

• Step 6: By default VMWare uses 256MB RAM, adjust the size if needed, any size starting from 128MB can be used for RouterOS

• Step 7: Adjust the size of the RAM

• Step 8:

• Step 9: By default CHR disk image is 128MB. If bigger storage is desired, you can expand the virtual hard drive. Choose Customize Settings to do so. NOTE. IT MUST BE DONE BEFORE the 1st RUN.

• Step 10: Choose Hard Disk and set the new disk size

• Step 11:

How to Install Cloud Hosted Router on VMWare ESXi 6.5

Mikrotik Wireless Router

Quick example on how to use CHR on ESXi 6.5 via it's web interface and some cli.

Note: Steps will be similar in older ESX versions or when using vSphere client.

Step by Step Instruction

• Step 1:

Upload CHR image to your ESX/ESXi host.

• Step 2:

Connect to your ESX host via ssh and navigate to directory where you uploaded this image. Then convert image to one better suited for use with ESX.

Image location: /vmfs/volumes/(volume id)/

convert:

2.1. Expand image if needed.

Expand:

• Step 3:

Create new VM and attach it this existing image.

• Step 4:

Assign CHR image to VM as boot disk. Deepstatus.

Note: For system disk you must use IDE controller! Only additional disks can be attached to various supported SCSI controllers.

• Step 5: Start the VM.

See also

Mikrotik Cloud Switch