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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...

We're looking at upgrading the code in our production Nexus 1000v environment. Currently running version 4.2(1)SV1 in Production.Looks like I have a couple of options. 4.2(1)SV2(1.1a)4.2(1)SV2(2.1)We're using 4.2(1)SV2(2.1) in a small LAB.I would lik...

Hi all -So i'm getting these log messages repeatedly:2012 Oct  8 07:01:17 vsm-01 %VMS-5-CONN_CONNECT: Connection 'vcenter' connected to the vCenter Server.2012 Oct  8 07:01:17 vsm-01 %VMS-5-CONN_DISCONNECT: Connection 'vcenter' disconnected from the ...

Hi,Wondering if anyone has seen this problem before: We have quite a large distributed VMware environment where we have the multiple Virtual Centers located at HQ managing about 200 remote global sites where each site has 2xESX server running the 10...

Hi,From the Q&A Nexus 1000V below an excerpt of the requirements on ESXi. What I wonder, when I have 50 VEMS (or 50 physical hosts) do I need 2G memory (VSM) and 50*150M or 7.5G for the VEMs, so total 9.5G? Or does the 150M sit as process in the phys...