Data Center Switches

Hello, I am running 1000v  version 4.2(1)SV2(2.1a) with VSG 2 (1.1). I have set my 1000v switch to Advance edition; but VSG does not recognize that and therefore I cannot enable the dhcp snooping/relay feature on VSG. I have already successfully enab...

I have both my vsms down and while my esxi hosts are up, the vms have no network connectivity via the 1000v portgroups in vcenterI thought vem are still suppose to forward packets even when both vsms are down.any idea?

I think I have a pair of 1000v that are not connected anymore together, one does not recognize the otherone should be active and one should be secondarysh system redundancy statusRedundancy role---------------      administrative:   secondary        ...

I am currently running esxi 5.1 on nexus 1000v 4.2(1)SV2(1.1a)before I upgrade esxi from 5.1 to 5.5, do I upgrade the nexus 1000v first before going to 5.5 or do I upgrade to esxi 5.5 first then upgrade the 1000v?what is the procedure?

Hello,I am interesting in Nexus 1000v Split-Brain Resolution. In documentation they speak about "proper configuration" during Split brain resolution.http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_2_1_s_v_2_2_1/high_availabili...

Hi,hoping someone can help. I am trying to deploy the Cisco Nexus 1000V Release 4.2(1)SV2(2.1a) on a new ESXi 5.5 infrastructure. 2 x ESXi 5.5 hosts in a cluster managed by a VCSA 5.5. I execute the java InstallerApp and proceed to select custom ins...

HiWithe a blade server (in this case a C7000 with HP22B FEX) connected via four 10Gb uplinks (two per FEX) to a pair of Nexus switches whats preferable using vPC and LACP to bind the whole lot into a single etherchannel or using mac pinning ?I am ten...

Hi all,I would like to get your opinion on this,On vSphere vDS, if you configure PVLANs, the requirement is that the upstream switch needs to PVLAN aware. Otherwise the following issue may happen :VMware KB: Private VLAN (PVLAN) on vNetwork Distribut...

Hello!I wanted to try to use N1K in both envirments: ESX and Hyper-V.So I tried to install the VSM for Hyper-V as a virtual machine on an ESX Host. This might seem a bit strange, but in some envirments it could be usefull.I wnated to keep the VSM sep...