MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router (CHR), RouterOS as VM, 64Bit capable | mikrotik-store.eu

What is Cloud Hosted Router (CHR)

Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version that is designed to run as a virtual machine. It supports the x86 64-bit architecture (the RouterOS ISO installation media only supports 32-bit) and can be used on most common hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM and others. CHR has all RouterOS features by default, but has a different licensing model than other RouterOS versions.

What about the licenses - RouterOS vs CHR?

With RouterOS, everything is usually tied to the hardware. Once purchased hardware or installed RouterOS loses its license if the data carrier is destroyed or deleted. A new license must then be purchased. There are also differences at levels 4, 5 and 6, e.g. how many tunnels can be opened for PPPoE, OVPN and co: RouterOS Licensing

With CHR, you can delete a CHR instance, operated with a P1 license, for example, on a virtualization environment and reactivate it elsewhere (don't forget backups) without losing the license. The license is transferred from the seller to the user's account at MikroTik (mikrotik.com/client), which is stored in the CHR instance. The upload is also limited for the existing license levels (per port: P1: 1Gbit/s upload, P10: 10Gbit/s upload and P-Unlimited: Unlimited upload) and the update capability of the system is also related to the existing license itself: CHR Licensing

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