Cisco Cloud Services Platform (CSP) 5000 Series platforms are x86 Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) software and hardware platforms for the data center, regional hub, and colocation Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The platforms enable enterprise IT teams or service providers to quickly deploy any Cisco or third-party network virtual service with Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) or any other northbound management and orchestration system. Or they can be used standalone through a simple, built-in native web user interface, a Command-Line Interface (CLI), a Representational State Transfer (REST) API, and NETCONF/YANG interfaces. The Cisco CSP 5000 Series comes in either 1-rack-unit (Figure 1) or 2RU form factors to fit the requirements of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) and network-service chains in network and compute.