Which two image formats are supported for controller code?
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Correct answer: .qcow2, .ova.
Why this is the answer
Cisco SD-WAN controllers (vManage, vSmart, vBond) are typically deployed as virtual machines. The two supported image formats for these virtual machine deployments are .qcow2 and .ova. .qcow2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write) is a disk image format commonly used with QEMU and KVM virtualization platforms. It's efficient for storage and supports features like snapshots. .ova (Open Virtual Appliance) is a tar archive of an OVF (Open Virtualization Format) directory. It's a single file distribution of a virtual machine, making it easy to import into various hypervisors like VMware ESXi, KVM, and VirtualBox. .nxos is an operating system for Cisco Nexus switches. .iso is a disk image for optical media (CD/DVD) and is not used for controller VM images. .bin is a generic binary file format and not specific to VM images for Cisco SD-WAN controllers.
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