Data Center Switches

Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and clus...

Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and clus...

I have  a card in Minor alarm on a Cisco 7000 and wanted to know if issuing no hardware ejector enable command will allow me to reset the buttons and levers without an issue.

Friend,    I have an VM setup , in which an blade is connected to Nexus 7K switch. VM1 and VM2 are in the same subnet. VM1 and VM2 are able to ping each other, but unable to ping from VM1 & VM2 to gateway or from Nexus switch to VM1 & VM2. Kindly pro...

I have installed a nexus 2k with 5k, but the nexus 2k has LED ID on blue. what is the meanning of that??

All,I have a port profile this is in production and we would like to reassign the access VLAN.  we can take a small out age to change the 1000v but I would like to avoid changing 100's of vm network settings. What is the process for this, I believe t...

We have a pair of 6504's in VSS Mode connected to pair of Nexus 5600's in VPC mode.  We have Nexus 2000 Fex's connected to the 5600's.  All of our data center access switches and client access closet switches are also connected to the core.  I've att...

Hi,We currently have a pair of Nexus 5k's using FCoE.Switch 1 is using vsan 11 (vlan 11) and Switch 2 is using vsan 12 (vlan 12), this is serving FCoE to the UCS system.We have a physical server that we need to connect to the Nexus 5k's via FC. Can w...

Hi,I'm having issues with connectivity from my VSM to vCenter. I have active/standby VSM's. Every so often the connection from the VSM to vCenter drops off & later reconnects. The VEM's stay online and the VSM's stay online. There appears to be conne...

Hi community,a customer of us just removed one of his two ports used to link a FEX to it Nexus5K. Because he wanted to change the cabling a bit.His idea was, since he has two "uplinks" to the bigger switch, all should be fine.For sure, a FEX is no sw...

Is this the correct place to see if anyone knows where I can get my hands on some training materials for the ACI for field engineers test?

Hi all,We deployed a new pair of VSM in HA. After that, we powered-off VSM and others VMs to restart ESXi hosts.After reboot 1000v changed its extension-key so we cannot connect it to vcenter server. VEMs cannot connect to vsm, vms veths were down fr...

Hello,We are in a project to replace the core switches infrastructure, in an existing datacentre, with Nexus 9504.We would like to use the design as describe in the document 'Design and Configuration Guide-Best Practices for VPC on Cisco Nexus7000' i...

Here's an example scenario:1 vSphere ESX cluster containing 30 ESX hosts.1 HA-pair of Nexus 1000v VSM.1 VEM installed on each of the 30 ESX hosts.600 Virtual Machines distributed throughout the ESX cluster.300 active VLANsAccording to the Cisco Nexus...

HiI am dual VM with version - version 4.2(1)SV2(2.1ai have had a failure of one of the VSM with the following error switch(boot)#if i issues load bootflash:it returns the error could not load image: corrupted image.what is the fastest way to get this...