Data Center Switches

Dear Experts, I am new to DC switching. As per my understanding and limited research, vdc's are only supported in Nexus 7ks. They are not supported in N9k. So is it a technology with very limited use cases? actually i am confused as to why in a priva...

hi guys, I have to choose server farm switch but i dont have enough experince for that. My environment : 10 servers in VCenter cluster, brocade SAN switch for storage Tech spec:- 10G- standart L3 switch- non stoping Upgrade- may be MPLS for connect D...

We have a N3K-C3524P-XL with 24 port enable by default; And we need additional 24 port license recently.How do we apply the license? using command install license xxx is ok? and do we need reboot the box, or do we need downtime? 

One of our N7K's has stopped logging to logfile.  When I checked /var/log is showed to be at 100%.  So I cleared the file and soon after, it stops logging.We've had these 7Ks up and running for 4.3 years (v6.2(14)) and this just started happening rec...

I have a EVPN layer2 only lab setup and I'm trying to do something simple which is not working. Example 2 spine 8 leaf, nexus 9300Everything is layer 2 except on leaf#8 i add vlan SVI: vlan 100vn-segment 10100 int vlan 100ip address 60.0.0.1/24 The i...

Hi,How is it possible to log login attempts on a Nexus9k?The IOS command login on-success log does not seem to be supported.Thanks,Chris

Is there any procedure or document shared by Cisco to monitor or add the MDS SAN switches under Check_MK to monitor the switch over port level.MDS Switch Monitoring

Folks,I have a transparent traffic shaper appliance I need to introduce into a network.  Attached is a diagram.  How I control trafficflow to come in port 2 and go through port 15 (the in of the shaper) and onto the router? The reason this is happeni...

Hi All, There's an oracle convergence system namely PCA using 4 unit of cisco 9300 for connectivity, 2 as spine, 2 as leaf. Default setup, the spine switch already load with factor configuration, and i need to connect this spine switch to another dat...

Hello Expertswe are new to DCNM and also using DCNM to building a new VXLAN with nexus 9Kwe need to have a use case to create HSRP on the SVI, since DCNM not allowed us to do freedom config in NETWORKS, I tried to apply like normal like below, howeve...

I am facing an issue in getting a physical link up between the Nexus 7700 and a Palo Alto firewall. I wanted to tweak around with speed/negotiation of the interface but dont find any commands there. Is there anything you need to enable for QSFP? How ...

Is it recommended to connect Nexus 9504 chassis with X97160 line cards with Cataylst switches (9400/6500/4500).  I am thinking of using 10G-CU SFP+ 5 meter cables instead of standard 10Gb SFP SR modules.  I understand that it has to meet the distance...