Data Center Switches

Hello! I just started working as Office/IT admin of a start up Datacenter. We've purchased two blocks of IPv4 addresses from local fiber ISP. We want to make sure the servers secure. ISP advised us to set up IP Unicast. We are using a subnet mask of ...

Hi,   in a customer environment we need to change the path cost method from short to long. The core switches are currently 2 VSS and the other are N9K and N5500 switches.  I noticed starting from the root will be a best practice. Does anyone has expe...

Good mornning, I have seen that it is not possible to upgrade from DCNM OVA Release 10.2 (1) to 11.0 (1) directlly, first one should be upgrading from 10.2 (1) to 10.3 (1), then from 10.3 (1 ) to 10.4 (2) and finally from 10.4 (2) to 11.0 (1)I find i...

I am specifying some refurbished hardware for use in a test lab but am struggling to find the difference between the Nexus 3064PQ and 3064X. Looking for the 3064 which has 48 x 10Gbe SFP ports and 4 x QSFP+ slots able to run in 4x10 or single 40gbe m...

Hi,    I am looking for a platform that can do static NAT in hardware, Here are the requirements:   1) Up to 512 static one to one NAT entries, NAT translation implemented in hardware, i.e. wire speed NAT translations, we only need static NAT transla...

Hi dear all,   recently I got an issue about NX-OS 8.2(1) in 7700 and would like to know some of the policy such as ACL or Route-map doesn't work very well and these rules couldn't filter or redirect traffic as my wish. This is my configurations on F...

I'm confused on the nexus 3548X software upgrade proccess. Following the official upgrade guide, but after software upgrade has completed, I don't know if the bios information is shown correctly to proceed with it.   "show install all status" output ...

I'll try keep this simple using pictures... We want to get from this:  To this:     The basics are: We are consolidating DC locations for this company/branch as part of a bigger picture strategy.No redundancy with switches at either of these sites e...

Hello!   I digged around the documentation, but couldn't find the TCAM size and layout for Nexus 31108PC-V (checked here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/9-x/security/configuration/guide/b_Cisco_Nexus_9000_Serie...

Hi All,     I want ask something about OTV, I have multi AED or dual OTV on one site. Assume, the first box with hostname DC-OTV1 and the second box with hostname DC-OTV2. Ok the question is: 1) I know the higher system id is always for ODD vlan, but...

Hi. We are installing a IE-2000U-16TC-GP and adding a separate AC power source connected to the switch:PWR-IE170W-PC-AC. This will allow the 4 PoE ports to receive power.Your problem is that total budget available POE is 65W instead of 170W. Is there...

Hi All,   Need some help to find out how to check the number of VSA's in 1000v.  Thanks in advance!!   Best Regards Ashish Solanki

Hi All,   What's the default method of Spanning-tree Calculation of Cost (Pathcost Method Long 32 bits or Pathcost Method Short 16 bits) in Cisco Nexus Switches ? As I understand, if we have > 1 G links in our Architectures (LANs, DCs, ...) and nowad...