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Hello, I recently was asked the following quesiton by my customer:"What is Cisco best practice for SPAN ports on VMWare envrionments?  As you know, we are running Nexus 1000v that allows for SPAN sessions.  However, my concern is that we will saturat...

I've been troubleshooting in a lab environment restoring a 1000v that will not allow the running-config to be copied 100% to the startup-config. This was a HA cluster and I've since resolved that and have the 1000v running in standalone mode. I've le...

What would the config of the Nexus 5000 look like with the example config given(see attached or below) in the 1000v Qos White Paper?version 4.2(1)SV1(4)class-map type queuing match-all vm_gold_classmatch cos 4class-map type queuing match-all vmotion_...

I have read the section on running VSM and VEM on same host within the N1KV config guide. However, I want to understand any other issues I should be aware of before placing this config into production? I.E shutting down host / cluster / VSM / vcentre...

Anyone any idea when we can expect version 1.5 of the nexus 1000V.Regards,John

Cisco CloudLab Portal is not working, giving me the message server not avialable? anyone got more information on the server or # for support?

Fellow Engineers,I know my question will be redundant, and I have done all I can to search the community, but I am very new to the 1000V deployment, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback/information in regard to the questions that i have.We rec...

I was wondering if anybody could help me with this one.I'm staging a new virtual infrastructure architecture for my company hosted onVMware ESX4.1 with N1KV 4.0(4) SV1 (3b)  solution on top.When testing the final design I've noticed that a VMware FT ...

HiThe VMware architect designing the ESXi 5 rollout wants to use Nexus 1000v but only for the 10Gb ports that will carry application data. For managment of the ESXi servers and vMotion etc plus mangment and control vlans for the VEMs he wants to use ...

HiIs it possible to mix a 1000v L3 and L2 deployment on a single 1010 appliance, that is have one VSM in L2 mode and another in L3 mode ? I have a customer that has a VMware deployment with a single data centre that includes two differnet security ar...

Hello,for selling the Nexus 1000v to our customers it is important to know how the future software upgrade procedure for the Nexus 1000v will be. This is in order to know - the steps involved for the network admin and server admin- to assess how easy...

Hello.I installed Cisco N1KV on my ESX 4.1U1 vmware cluster.Only vmnics for management are currently connected to the VSM.Each host is composed of 4 vmnics, each of them are connected to a different uplink Switch.I tried to configure but I'm not sure...