12-09-2009 10:34 AM
Hi
Hoping this is an easy question, I am being advised that the Cisco 100V Man Vlan needs to be the same as the same as the ESXi Man Vlan, I currently have a design that has these 2 interfaces on serperate Vlans.
Can anybody advise if they need to be on the same Vlan or can be seperate please.
Also is there any best practise's for installation of the 1000V switches..??
Thanks in advance for the help
Tim
12-10-2009 04:08 AM
The 1000v Management VLAN does NOT have to been the same VLAN as your ESX hosts use for Service Console/Management. As long as your Management VLAN of your 1000v is routeable to your vCenter server & ESX hosts, there's shouldn't be an issue.
For the current MV release 4.0(4)SV1(1), the VSM and VEM must be in the same Layer 2 domain for the control & packet VLANs. Next release, called "Aru Vaal" aka "MV" aka "4.0.4.SV1.2", you will be able to setup your Control connections as a Layer 3 routed address or Layer 2 VLAN.
Check here on this community board where we post various 1000v docs:
https://communities.cisco.com/community/products/nexus1000v?view=documents
This talks about best practices deploying 1000v on UCS, there may be some tips that can help you:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/white_paper_c11-558242.html
This also speaks about UCS and the Palo virtualized adapter, but you might find more info:
http://www.internetworkexpert.org/2009/08/11/cisco-ucs-nexus-1000v-design-palo-virtual-adapter/
There are formal best practice guides being written now. Should be publically available on CCO or this community site soon.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Robert
12-11-2009 03:01 AM
Hi Roberts
Thanks for the answer and the other usful info, all very usful.
CHeers
Tim
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