ESX6.5: Cisco CSR1000V OVA deployment problem (CSCve43726)

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Workaround for Cisco bug CSCve43726: CSR1000V: ova install fails on ESXI 6.5: rasd:ResourceSubType VMXNET3 virtio Update

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCve43726/?referring_site=bugquickviewclick

Fix the downloaded OVA using the COT (https://github.com/glennmatthews/cot) tool running in Docker (https://store.docker.com/community/images/safenetlabs/cot)

1) Change directory to folder that contains the problematic OVA
2) Given the downloaded file 'csr1000v_orignal.ova' execute:

 docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/data safenetlabs/cot  edit-hardware --nic-types vmxnet3 -o /data/csr1000v_patched.ova /data/csr1000v_original.ova
 
 3) use the patched ova in esx6.5
 
 example:
 docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/data safenetlabs/cot  edit-hardware --nic-types vmxnet3 -o /data/csr.ova /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova
    INFO: Loading '/data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova' as OVF
    INFO: OVF version is 1.x
    INFO: OVF product class com.cisco.csr1000v --> platform CSR1000V
    INFO: Updated ethernet ResourceSubType to ['VMXNET3'] under None
    INFO: Writing out to file /data/csr.ova
    INFO: Copying csr1000v_harddisk.vmdk directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file
    INFO: Copying bdeo.sh directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file
    INFO: Copying README-OVF.txt directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file
    INFO: Copying README-BDEO.txt directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file
    INFO: Copying cot.tgz directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file
    INFO: Copying csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.iso directly from /data/csr1000v-universalk9.16.03.04.ova to TAR file