Win 7 has not gone through WHQL certification however like you mentioned it may run on SRE as a virtual machine using VMware ESXi hypervisor / SRE-V technology.
As long as 3rd party app is capable of running on ESXi 5 it would run on SRE hardware. Cisco doesn't prevent these apps from running even if they are competitive. From a support perspective Cisco TAC will not take any support calls for these applica...
Technically router isn't supposed to act as a switch. Routers are supposed to break broadcast domain else broadcast packets will keep on circulating forever. With that said, you can configure ip helper address so that a broadcast is not dropped when...