Data Center Switches

Could somebody please explain, or point me to a document that explains, the relationship between the system vlans defined within svs-domain and how they are applied to port-profiles?  Is there a relationship at all?  Or does the "system vlan" command...

I'm having a strange issue now that I have valid licenses installed on my VSM. I got 4 of my hosts added to the VSM with the new licence just fine. However I'm getting the following errors now with the other two hosts I'm trying to add. Consequently ...

Hi all,Quick question regarding something I am seeing.We are running 1000v version 4.0(4)SV1(2), and we have a SPAN session setup between two VM guests, both running on virtual ethernet interfaces. The problem we seem to be running into is that when ...

I have an ESXi 4.1 cluster that already runs a distributed virtual switch. No standard vSwitches exist on the hosts. When trying to install the VSM I get an error message saying no vSwitches could be found. However when you read the installation guid...

Hi All,I'm in the middle of replacing the vSwitches and DVS's in our ESX environment to purely Cisco Nexus 1000v's. Our environment is a mixture of vSwitches and DVS's.Is there any prerequisites I need to be aware of before to perform this migration?...

thank you so much in advance.i am trying to find out how many CPU the following license can support?Remove PAKProduct SKU Option SKUDescriptionLicenses to RegisterOrdered:FulfilledAvailableQtyL-N1K-VLCPU-VMELA= L-N1K-VLCPU-VMELA= : Nexus 1000V CPU Li...

Hi everyone,first time posting here.i have an issue that i can't seem to figure out. here's my environment::nexus 1000v (4.0.1.SV1.2) running on ESX version 4.0 Update 1:2 x nexus 2000; 2 x nexus 5000 (i'm not the cisco engineer at my work so i don't...

Is it possible to disable http acces on N1K ?In case is is possible to configure Authentication ?

During the GUI configuration of the Nexus 1000v one of the VSM config options is "vSwitch0 Native Vlan". In our configuration we have trunked ports from our 5010, through HP virtual connect, to the server's pNICs. All VLANs are tagged as we use VST m...

Nexus 1010 itselft does not have a packet vlan, only have management , control and data: Options 1,2,3 and 4 ONLY select interfaces for management, control and data.Nexus 1000v VSM module installed on the 1010 have management, control and packet VLAN...

Hi,We have a UCS attached to NetApp storage, all NFS-based. We use NetApp's multi-tenancy functionality(MultiStore), which means a an NFS datastore on a separate VLAN for each tenant. When you have 20+ tenants x a growing number of blades you can't c...

Host loses connectivity to SAN after adding both adapters to system_uplink.Qlogic dual port CNA cards - ql8152vsphere 4.1VEM/VSM 1.3(b)Found I can resolve by not binding the mac address to the vfc, but rather to the port channel - however I can no lo...

Turning off the vethernet is not reflected in the VM?This it's my config:port-profile type ethernet vm-uplink   vmware port-group   switchport mode trunk   switchport trunk native vlan 1   switchport trunk allowed vlan 2,40,113   system mtu 9000   ch...

Hi there,does anyone have experiences on running two Nexus 1010 appliances each in one  data center location for redundancy reasons?We are planning a Nexus 1000v Implementation for two data center's which are appr. 100km apart and couldn't find any i...

anyone can explain that please. thanks in advancehttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_0_4_s_v_1_3/getting_started/configuration/guide/n1000v_gsg_1overview.html