Data Center Switches

I never really paid attention to the overdraft licenses until today, when I installed a license that actually does not cover all the VEMs. The display still shows, all VEMs are licensed by using 2 overdraft licenses, which obviously are part of the l...

HiI have a customer who has been running 1000v for a year. They have recently upgraded to VMware 5.1 and have not upgraded 1000v to 2.1. They now however wish to deploy a DMZ running VSG which will require 2.1. Is it possible to to run a seperate VSM...

Hi,I have a simple lab environment running VMware vSphere 5.1.0 with two ESXi hosts, a Nexus 1000V 4.2(1)SV2(1.1a), and 2 VMs running Centos5.    All of this is running as a vApp within vCloud.I have a question about mac address learning on the N1000...

I am getting the following error while adding a host into 1000v as shown below(vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault)exceptionI am running Vcentre, 1000v as well as esxi 5.1 in evaluation mode. The server is 1950 dell with standard netwrk card.Can any one he...

Hi,I must connect a Netapp Filer with FC and UCS with FcoE on the same Nexus 5548UP, to communicate between the Netapp and UCS over N5k!Topology: Netapp-> FC -> N5k <-FCoE<-UCS Is this a supported design and how to configure it?Thanks to all

Hi,I am trying to use the nexus1000v with VXLAN as part of a vCloud Director setup, when i come to use the network pool for a VM i receive the following error on the 1000v switch.2013 Mar 25 14:47:17.720 blob %NSMGR-3-NETWORK_CREATE_FAILED: Network '...

I am a newbie with the 1000V switch, and have a question regarding an odd behavior I see...With a physical switch, I can get the mac address of the host I'm trying to locate ('show ip arp' on the gateway router/switch) and then do a 'show mac address...

Hello! Installing orchestration software on top of our new Vblock 700 and looking to add vlan1000-2000 for orchestration LAN deployment on Vdc's. With this would need seperate port profiles for each vlan.  I can't seem to find anywhere or method to a...

All,There are a lot of posts on here, so apologies if this has been asked. Our environemnt is growing rapidly, and with the limitation of 2000 vETH ports on the 1kv, I'm looking for solutions for properly deploying another instance of the 1kv within ...

I have a question regarding multi-nic vMotion and the Nexus 1000v. I know how this would be configured using standard or regular distributed switch in vCenter. I would create a two vMotion vmkernel ports and make vmnicX active and vmnicY standby and ...

I've attached a visio diagram of the configuration for reference.I'm having two problems:1.  I cannot ping the VIP 10.10.1.1 on the MS NLB servers from other subnets on their ODD numbered IPs.  For instance 192.168.1.1 cannot ping the VIP while 192.1...

HiI made a coupel of changes to a 1000v config (to do with VSG) and all seemed well. As the system is not live yet we decided to do a quick power off test.So I hit power off on teh standby VSM VM and teh same on the primary VSM VM. Then pwoered them ...