Cisco Modeling Labs

1- For Single user

 Personal has two licenses available:

Cisco Modeling Labs - Personal Allows 20 concurrent simulated nodes

Price :$199.00 Access Duration: 365 days

Allows 40 concurrent simulated nodes
Cisco Modeling Labs - Personal Plus
   Price :$349.00 Access Duration: 365 days

Cisco Modeling Labs: Personal and Personal Plus Features

Cisco Modeling Labs - Personal uses real Cisco IOS images — the same software in routers
and switches. This gives you a simulation tool with reliable models, whether you’re preparing
for your next certification exam or writing automation code for work.

Cisco Modeling Labs - Personal allows you to:

 Create models and what-if scenarios of real-world networks

 Connect virtual and physical environments
 Add nodes and change links in a running network simulation
 Start and view packet captures right from the UI

Cisco Modeling Labs – Personal supports the following Cisco images:

 IOSv and IOSvL2

 NX-OSv and NX-OS 9000v
 IOS XRv and IOS XRv 9000
 IOS XE (CSR1000v)
 ASAv

Cisco Modeling Labs – Personal also includes the following third-party and utility VMs:

 Linux VM with Cisco's Trex packet generator

 A WAN Emulator for creating WAN-like delay, jitter, and loss effects on links

 Desktop Alpine Linux image that provides a graphical, Xfce interface

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  Tiny Core Linux server image

 Full-featured Ubuntu server image using cloud-init YAML configuration

 CoreOS Linux container-focused OS using cloud-init YAML configuration

Cisco Modeling Labs - Personal is distributed as an OVA file for you to deploy as a virtual
machine on supported VMware products or as an .ISO file for bare metal installation.

2- For Teams
Streamline your NetDevOps experience with network simulation on
actual IOS images.
Teams has two licenses available:
 Enterprise

- is a multi-user solution that allows your team to share virtual labs and build their own
labs.
- For organizations with many users
- Ships with 20 Cisco nodes and can expand to 300 nodes 
- Multi-user Functionality Community and TAC support 

 Higher Education

- enables educational institutions to provide students with a way to practice networking

skills for real-world jobs.
- For educational organizations
- Designed for colleges, universities, and community colleges
- Price point enables many students to practice and learn
- Licensing per concurrent user instead of per node

Cisco Modeling Labs Enterprise

 New multiuser feature controls lab access

- Create and manage groups from a new system administration section to control lab
access
- Persistent browser and session

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 - Table view to search for users by username
- Ability to display link labels in the CML Canvas
- Group membership for each lab in the dashboard list view

 Automate simulations with a scalable platform, comprehensive API

- You can share labs among engineers or keep private labs for individuals.
- You can add devices and change configurations easily in running labs via an intuitive
HTML5 GUI.
- The external connectivity model is as simple as a drag-and-drop, with under 5 minutes
of configuration to create either a Network Address Translation (NAT) or Bridged
connection external to your simulation. Cisco network platform support is built into
Cisco Modeling Labs.
- Today we support most of the major IOS variants, including IOS, IOS-XRv, and NX-
OS.
- Cisco Modeling Labs also includes utility images such as Linux hosts, a WAN
Emulator, and the Cisco TRex traffic generator

Following are things VIRL can do:

CML Corporate Edition: The Commercial VIRL

 Product support (Cisco TAC) – bug fixes, new software, help making it work
 Licensed OS images
 Support for Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR now
 Support for NX-OS in Beta
 Support for some kind of layer 2 IOS image (think derivation of IOS for Catalyst
switches) is being worked on
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  Multiple users: OS images run on a server; multiple users (clients) can access the test
network
 The CML network can connect to physical networks
 Design a complex network topology with different routers, switches, servers, firewalls
etc.
 Generate configurations automatically. For example, we can specify routing protocol
properties for each node and the configurations gets generated automatically.
 Visualize networks at different layers including physical, L2, L3.
 Being able to change network configurations on the fly and see how the devices
respond.
 Connect virtual devices to physical devices and create a unified network. Physical
devices wont know that its talking to virtual devices.
 Packet forwarding at IP, L2, MPLS.

Following are things VIRL cannot do:

 Emulating ASICs, FPGA and other physical devices of router/switches.
 Since packet forwarding is done in software, VIRL cannot be used for performance
and throughput tests.

System Requirements

Memory 8 GB

CPU 4 (physical cores)

Intel processors must support VTx and EPT.

AMD processors must support AMDv and RVI.

Network 1 Interface

Hard Disk 16 GB or more

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