Data Center Switches

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...

Hello,Is VMware Enterprise plus Licence necessary to work with Nexus 1010 Appliance?orCan I use the "VMware Enterprise License" only?Regards,

hi guysi have HP bl 620G7 with 1000v and vsphere 4.1. . when a physical upstream switch port  goes down , my cisco 1000v doesnt notice that its down and when we bring back up the upstream port the vsm port attached to the physical nic does not come u...

Hi All,Just been doing some more 1000v implementing, and currently build a port-channel with 2 interfaces, but for some reason the duplex its picking up is 'half' and I have tried to set it manually in the nexus1kv side, and I get the following messa...

I have a customer lookiing to upgrade from vCenter 4.1 to 5. They are currently on 1.3b of the VSM. Does VSM 1.3a work ok with vCenter 5?They are planning to start updating their VEMs but due to timing they will not finish that until after the vCente...

Greetings,What do we tell an extremely sophisticated Silicon Valley customer when he’s very concerned that there have been issues in the past where if both VSMs are lost, the 1000V will still continue to forward traffic but will fall into a “read onl...

Hi all,I have two Cisco 2960 connected each other, and two hosts  ESXi 4.1 with one uplink to each switch.With the Vmware Standard vSwitch all VMs work properly, but with nexus 1000v only the VMs that were pinned to first uplink work have access to m...

Hi All,We are currently getting this error message after I attach a vmnic to the cisco 1kv :%VEM_MGR-SLOT3-2-VEM_SYSLOG_CRIT: VLAN_MISCONFIG : Multiple uplinks/port-channels with common VLANs detected. This can cause packet loops. Ensure that channel...