Data Center Switches

Dear All, Thanks in Advance.Is there any way where I can avoid downtime (Zero Downtime) for Data traffic while upgrading Firmware / NX-OS  of Nexus 9300 Series switches?  Regards   

Hi, We're planning a software upgrade for the Nexus 9300 (93180YC-EX) switches in our 2 data centers.  However, I'm having a hard time to predict downtime and/or data plane behaviour. We're using a straight-through FEX design with N2K devices.  Both ...

Dears, I am wondering, if it would be possible to create a vPC domain including VLAN SVIs, utilizing for instance HSRP for HA, on a pair of Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP. From the NX-OS documentation, it seems that there is no difference in software and lic...

Helle every body. I would like to know if nexus 3000 series are autonomous switches.Like 5000 series.If i can create a vpc domain ,  put svi , ect..... Thank you !

Hi everyone, I was hoping to find some advice or thoughts on an issue we've been experiencing with our newly purchased Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches and Dell Compellent SC5020.We have a new Dell Compellent SC5020 equipped with 2 "Chelsio T6225 Dua...

Hello Guys.Is there a limit of active port members on a Port-channel using Cisco Nexus 5K with FEX (Nexus 2K)?I have 2 Switches Nexus 5K on VPC and both of them have 2 FEX attached.The thing is that there is a need of connecting a Switch from another...

Hi expert There are lot of information about how could we stretch VLAN including L2TPv3, VPLS, OTV etc.However, why do we need to stretch the VLAN? Why dont we just use normal layer 3 routing to send traffic?Any example/case of using stretching VLAN?...

 I have three DCs that I am preparing a configuration for. The plan is to use ISR4000-series routers and interlink the three sites with OTV. Initially was planning on using the Unicast-OTV mode. Staging a simplex setup, with no redundancy yet. Mapped...

Hi,  I am trying to upgrade DCNM from 11.1.1.0 to 11.3(1) on my windows 2016 server and after reading release notes for 11.3(1) it appears that I can do an in place upgrade, see below. After trying multiple times I an unable as the installer states t...

Hello everyone, Does C93180YC-FX with NXOS 924 support N2K-C2248TP-1G? I am not able to find the answer. Please help me. Thanks

Just looking to see if anyone else has run into this issue. Has anyone used 25G AOC SFP on the NEXUS 93180YC-EX? We have several DACs that work fine but can't seem to get the port to come up when using the SFP-25G-AOC7M.We are running NXOS mode ver 7...

I just got a Cisco Catalyst 2960 and am trying to get my network running.2 problems1) My computer is hardwired to the switch-I can get access to a few websites (eg gmail; outlook mail) but most others I can't connect to - just times out 2) I have 3 N...

Hi there, I'm trying to get it four Nexus 3524-X to login authenticate with windows 2019 NPS via radius protocol, but so far no luck.I see in the NPS logs there 2 of the switches are sending radius requests, but somehow NPS doesn't like them, i have ...