Data Center Switches

Hi,I have not find best practices about vCenter location. It is better that the vCenter is on an ESX not manage by the Nexus 1000v ?On cisco documentations, logical figures show the  vCenter out of VEM but some cases studies migrate the vCenter on th...

HiWe have setup some servers with 4 10gb Ethernet cards all running FCoE.Two 10gb NICs are configured in a port channel for production VMs and two in a second portchannel for non production VMs.We have Vmotion,Vmware FT and VEM L3 ctrl running on the...

Dear all,We will move soon to a complete and new architecture like esxi(vm) - UCS blade - n1k - m81kr – 6248 - n5k – 3560.I found a lot of documentation about the QOS but no one who explain a policy from end to end, I understand that most of device r...

Can 2 different 1000v join the same vxlan.With the limit of 64 ESXi host per 1000v I can see wanting to connect spread vxlans accross 1000v switchs?From what I understand of how it works it should work as long as the vnlan/host are configured on the ...

I am getting the following error when running the "no vmware dvs" command:vDS vsm port 0 is connected to entity xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Virtual NIC vmk1, type:hostVmkVnicDoes anyone know how to remove?Thanks

Hello Cisco,I have a question about VSM performance. In our largest n1v environment (44 hosts,  432 vnic, 172vmnic) we see that the VSM (version 4.2(1)SV1(4a) ) has often a very high CPU load. The vcenter shows that the average VSM load is always ~75...

What's the best way to upgrade a vSphere 4 environment with a 1000v to a vSphere 5 environment with a 1000v? I'd like to do the upgrade without having any VM downtime.Is there any way to upgrade the VEMs and VSMs without requiring host restarts when ...

HiI just installed a new VSM on my 1010 pair and the secondary suddenly died.When I ssh to the CMIC and connect to the 1010 it is at the "loader >" prompt.If then issue a "boot nexus-1010-kickstart-mz.4.2.1.SP1.4.bin" it starts loading it but after a...

During my Nexus 1000v class, I got this question can you see what Lvethernet is used when the Vethernet is being created.This customer seems to have an issue with "old" settings when he wants to use a new port profile

Does anyone have any content or information comparing VSG with vShield or any guidance on where one may be preferred to the other?JES

I have been looking at designs for the use of Appliance Ports for directly attaching a NetApp NAS device to Cisco UCS.The basic design seems a little flawed and requires additional NIC's on each host and 4x Connections on each Controller to be able t...

Im trying to test the followingSETUP; -Two 5ks- Two 2Ks- one 2K has a dual home connection to each 5K- the other 2K has a single home connection to the 5KI have 3 connections from the 1K going to each 2KPrimary VSM is on ESX1Standby VSM is on ESX2the...