Data Center Switches

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...

Hello I am new to nexus 1000v I have an Nexus 1000v DVS configured in my DC. How can I configure an ServiceConsole and VMKernel Port-Group (of type vethernet port-profile) and migrate my service console from vswitch0 to DVS.I created a vlan 300 as my...

Hi all,based on pic belowat this time and with current releases of NX-OS for N7k N5k and N1K, is it possible to link Host nr 2 in vPC Host mode (with mac pinning or not) through Nexus 1000v using two fex dual-homed in a double-sided vpc topology ?All...

Hello,I just upgraded the N1K to 4.2(1)SV1(4a) and I noticed that the hostname switchover problem is still there.It happends that after a VSM switchover the name on VSphere Client change from the name configured on VSM to "switch". To change the name...

Discosure: I am on the VMware side of the house helping our Network guys with the transition. I have a few install questions.ESXi 4.1 environmentNexus1000V-4.2.1.SV1.4We have 10GbE interfaces. Hosts are plugged directly into a Nexus 5KWe have created...

Hi , Iam not able to ping one of the VM from the nexus 1000v, but the vethernet is showing UP, also mapped to correct VLAN. I had tried to disable & enable the interface ( Shut & no Shut ), but after doing also i was not able to ping the VM. In the V...

Hi all,Very new to the Nexus 1k, and actually still digging through a lot of documentation and finding things out. Figured this was a good place to drop this... though pardon me if it seems extremely basic or way off the mark. We are going to run our...

Hello, I'm getting ready to ugrade from 4.0(4)SV1(3) to 4.2(1)SV1(4a).I read that first we have to upgrade VEMs and afterword VSMs.Let say that I'm upgrade only the first VEM module for some days to see if everythings is working fine. What can be the...