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1000v Design & Conifg Feedback

Hello Everyone,Please need your valuable feedback regarding Nexus1000v design. please see attached digram.Will be using standalone server with 2 dual 10G to dual Nexus7000 for VM traffic, but using 1G connection for Nexus1000v management, vMotion but...

Port Profiles - link speed for VMs and vMotion

Hello,I'm a bit new to this portal, but I did do some reasearch on the forums and came up empty for an answer to this question:When you create a port profile on the 1000V how do you specify what link speed are those ports operating at?I mean say I'd ...

4.0(4)SV1(4) status

Does anyone know the current ETA on Nexus 1000v 4.0(4)SV1(4) ?Is there a list of committed features? ISSU and Queueing?

N1K How control PO number assignement

Hello,let's take this port-profile (port-Channel) as exemple:!port-profile type ethernet Channel-VLAN1601 description Channel Uplink Access to VLAN1601 vmware port-group switchport mode access switchport access vlan 1601 channel-group auto mode ...

1000v System VLANs - Clarity Requested

Could somebody please explain, or point me to a document that explains, the relationship between the system vlans defined within svs-domain and how they are applied to port-profiles? Is there a relationship at all? Or does the "system vlan" command...

Unable to Add VEM to VSM

I'm having a strange issue now that I have valid licenses installed on my VSM. I got 4 of my hosts added to the VSM with the new licence just fine. However I'm getting the following errors now with the other two hosts I'm trying to add. Consequently ...

Problem with SPAN ports after vMotion

Hi all,Quick question regarding something I am seeing.We are running 1000v version 4.0(4)SV1(2), and we have a SPAN session setup between two VM guests, both running on virtual ethernet interfaces. The problem we seem to be running into is that when ...

Cannot install 1000v without vSwitch present

I have an ESXi 4.1 cluster that already runs a distributed virtual switch. No standard vSwitches exist on the hosts. When trying to install the VSM I get an error message saying no vSwitches could be found. However when you read the installation guid...

HOWTO: Migrate from vSwitch and/or DVS setup to Nexus 1000v setup

Hi All,I'm in the middle of replacing the vSwitches and DVS's in our ESX environment to purely Cisco Nexus 1000v's. Our environment is a mixture of vSwitches and DVS's.Is there any prerequisites I need to be aware of before to perform this migration?...

Need help please

thank you so much in advance.i am trying to find out how many CPU the following license can support?Remove PAKProduct SKU Option SKUDescriptionLicenses to RegisterOrdered:FulfilledAvailableQtyL-N1K-VLCPU-VMELA= L-N1K-VLCPU-VMELA= : Nexus 1000V CPU Li...

VM can't communicate with Physical server

Hi everyone,first time posting here.i have an issue that i can't seem to figure out. here's my environment::nexus 1000v (4.0.1.SV1.2) running on ESX version 4.0 Update 1:2 x nexus 2000; 2 x nexus 5000 (i'm not the cisco engineer at my work so i don't...

How Disable http services on Nexus 1000V

Is it possible to disable http acces on N1K ?In case is is possible to configure Authentication ?

1000v install: vSwitch 0 native VLAN?

During the GUI configuration of the Nexus 1000v one of the VSM config options is "vSwitch0 Native Vlan". In our configuration we have trunked ports from our 5010, through HP virtual connect, to the server's pNICs. All VLANs are tagged as we use VST m...

Nexus 1010 design question

Nexus 1010 itselft does not have a packet vlan, only have management , control and data: Options 1,2,3 and 4 ONLY select interfaces for management, control and data.Nexus 1000v VSM module installed on the 1010 have management, control and packet VLAN...

Scripting vmkernel port creation - UCS, Nexus 1kv and NFS storage

Hi,We have a UCS attached to NetApp storage, all NFS-based. We use NetApp's multi-tenancy functionality(MultiStore), which means a an NFS datastore on a separate VLAN for each tenant. When you have 20+ tenants x a growing number of blades you can't c...

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1000v Design & Conifg Feedback

Port Profiles - link speed for VMs and vMotion

4.0(4)SV1(4) status

N1K How control PO number assignement

1000v System VLANs - Clarity Requested

Unable to Add VEM to VSM

Problem with SPAN ports after vMotion

Cannot install 1000v without vSwitch present

HOWTO: Migrate from vSwitch and/or DVS setup to Nexus 1000v setup

Need help please

VM can't communicate with Physical server

How Disable http services on Nexus 1000V

1000v install: vSwitch 0 native VLAN?

Nexus 1010 design question

Scripting vmkernel port creation - UCS, Nexus 1kv and NFS storage

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