Data Center Switches

Dear All,I had problem in change speed and duplex setting on nexus 1000.By default, my N1K interface speed is 10 and duplex half. I had tried to change the speed and duplex manually, but when I do "show interface status" the speed and duplex still 10...

Greeting allI understand that the best practice for vmotion with n1kv is to create a separate port-profile type vethernet and with an access vlan same as my control/mgmg/packet and use it for my vmotionBut is it possible to have the vmotion via a dif...

Hi,As the title suggests really, I'm trying to find out what ports and/or protocols the redundancy services utilises when you have the active and standby VSMs on a network? On fixed configuration Nexus switches this is normally facilitated by EOBC, b...

Hi there,my problem is that when i migrate vms from the standard vswitch to the nexus 1000V, some of them are loosing connection but the ports are up in the nexus.other vms (in the same vlan) keep their connection after being migrated in the same por...

HelloI was able to find the Cisco PCI solutions PDF but it doesn't mention the N1010anyone has information regarding the Nexus1010 PCI compliance?thank you all in advance.

I'm planning an upgrade and want to see if my plan makes sense.Current Configuration:dedicated 32bit vCenter Server 4.0 running on Win2003R25x HP dual socket 6 core hosts running ESX 4.0 and 1000V 1.3aWhat I Want:dedicated 64bit vCenter Server 4.1 ru...

Hi,I have 2 questions regarding these VLANs:Question 1. I have a ESX with 6 NICs:- 2 for Service Console- 2 for VMs traffic- 2 for VMotion.Only the 2 NICs used for VM traffic wil configured as Uplinks in Nexus 1000v (the other 4 NICs will remain in t...

Hi Guys,This might sound like a stupid question but if you have your Nexus 1000v environment up and running, everything is going well but someone accidental deletes the ACTIVE vsm, how do you recover from that making sure that the new VSM you build w...

Hello.I am having an issue adding hosts to the vNDS.The issue started after I removed the two original blade servers, brought 1000v up on the new blade server, completely rebuilt to two original blades and added them to the new cluster. Now that I ha...

I am having the same issue described in Cannot create any port profiles on n1k from VSMI am receiving the error: "Warning: Operation succeeded locally but update failed on vCenter server" when trying to create a port profile."  when trying to create ...

Hi,followed these steps to manally upgrade the VEMs host by host: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_0_4_s_v_1_3/upgrade/software/guide/n1000v_upgrade_software.html#wp53115At the moment i hang on Step 4 after i initiat...

what is the difference? Only limitations and restrictions?

Scenerio:One Esxi host with two 2 port 10g CNAs and two Nexus 5k switches up stream.One port of the CNAs are cable into the Nexus 5k and the following configs are place on the respective switchesNexus 1kvport-portfile type ethernet network-uplinkvmwa...

Following the steps to run the Nexus 1000 on a single host, I run into this problem which I wonder if you have guys seen.When I move the Packet and Control vlan off the vSwitch and onto the Nexus 1000, my VEM on the host powers downs. Any thoughts?

          I have noticed that the nexus 1000v does a reconfiguration of the vDS switch everyday at 7:00 AM. Could anybody tell my why this happens ? I inherited the environment and would like to know.Thanks,