Data Center Switches

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...

Is it possible to successfully build a vPC domain between a Nexus 7010 with Sup 1 and a 7706 with a Sup 2?  This is for migration purposes only.  Client has 7010's with Sup 1 currently and migrating to the 7706s with Sup 2.  They are looking for mini...

HiIs there a doc any where that shows the right way to add a an ESXi host back into a 1000v vDS after it has had to be rebuilt.We have had to rebuild a ESXi host within a VMware eviroment that has the 1000v switch install. After the rebuild and conne...

Hello, I need help with setting up Cisco 1000v Switch in vmware vCenter.What i want to do with it:My goal is to run TRILL (Cisco's FabricPath) between few (let's say 4) switches to verify my simulation model of TRILL.Current stateI have been able to ...

Hi,We have a network consisting of 7Ks with 5Ks on leaf, on two sites. Between the sites, we have fabricpath enabled. The 7Ks run 4 VDC's each and vlans are separated using topologies.One of the VDC's is up and running, however the second one has som...

In which cases would I configure same STP priority for both Nexus 55k placed as Aggregation switches in a data center

Hi , Please can i have some guidance.Current Setup 2 x 4507R core switches with 1 HP Server cluster with passthru modules (Please see attached diagram)4 x ESXi hosts on the cluster.ESXi hosts disconnect and VM's become isolated, this only happens to ...

We have two datacentres with a VBLOCK in each and within each VBLOCK is a Nexus 1000V VSM.  We have run into an issue when trying to add them into our management platform (CA Spectrum) using SNMP v3.  When we have investigated we can see that both ou...