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Ask me Anything Webinar: Migration of your Hyperconverged solution

Your Exclusive Ask me Anything webinar on the Migration of your Hyperconverged Solution has landed! Coordinated by our colleagues in the Insider Advocates team and to support customers here in the Cisco Community, Champions, and the Insider Advocat...

RFC1918 in a Data Center/Service Provider

Hello All,I work in a Data Center/SP in California. My management has recently been told that using RFC1918 addressing rather than public registered addressing will provide security/meet "best practices". We own several class B networks and have plen...

Resolved! Problem reset Nexus 5596

Hello, Some equipments Nexus 5596 from a customer have reinitiated and it seems to have been provoked by an OSPF problem although I am not sure. The logs from the equipment show: 2013 Jan 9 07:29:42 ROISBPRE2CN %BTCM-5-BTCM_LOG_L3_READY: system beco...

VSAN Isolation due to domain manager other side not responding

I am trying to configure VE port between Cisco nexus 7K and 5K switches but the vfc is not operational as VSAN isolation. I have bind the VSAN 100 to VLAN 100 and add vfc into vsan database, but the VSAN 100 is still operational down ...

Need some hints migrating to nexus

Hello,I am new to nexus world so I'm reading a lot of documents regarding nexus design and guidelines.I should propose and implement a Nexus solution in a server farm/campus currently made of catalys switches(6500).THe topology is made of two core 6...

Best way to start with Cisco Nexus

I have never touched a Cisco Nexus. I am holding an CCIP and I am thinking about converting into an CCNP Service Provider. What do you think is the best way to start with the Nexus series?---Posted by WebUser Marcel Paries from Cisco Support Communi...

VSS in 4500X with vPC to Nexus 7K issue

I want to know if I have pair of Cisco 4500X that form VSS and each of 4500X has 1 link to one of the N7K.Is it similar with a Server(pair of 4500X with VSS) using vPC to the N7K?What is the mac-address learning behaviour?

Mounting Nexus 7K

Recently purchased 2 Nexus 7009 Chassis for our datacenter. We are wanting to mount side by side in two post racks. Is this a supported mounting config since the 7009 uses side to side airflow. The clearance between the chassis is approximately 7 inc...

Apply ACL/Routemap to protect control plane

Can we use ACL or routemap to control/block the packets which is going to the control plane or management plane of ASR 9000 routers and how is it possible ?

Resolved! Air filter on Nexus 7010

I've yet to deal with maintenance on the air filter and I was wondering if anybody knows if the filter material (foam) can be cleaned or does it need to be replaced? I cannot find replacement filters on the Internets (I'm assuming that the $300+ pa...

Catalyst 6509, Nexus 7000, and vPC

Can I have two core nexus 7ks connected to a single catalyst 6509 (Sup720) using vPC?

Ask the Expert: Data Center and Cloud Security

With Naman LatifWelcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about different solutions and best practices around securing your physical and virtual environment in the Data Cente...

VXLAN Offload hardware

IS there any VXLAN offload NICS available in the market?

Resolved! PACKET TRACER for Datacenter boxes

Hello all,is there a packet tracer version that has nexus 7k, 5k, FEXs, Fiber Channel switches (MDS 9000 series) load balancers and the rest of R&S boxes?Thanks in advance,

Can not delete the ip igmp join-group command on NX2Ks.

Hi,I have 1 NX5K & 1 NX2K (FEX) and configured PIM on them -Release 5.2(1)N1(1).I configured on the NX2K's ports the ip igmp join-group command to statically bind a multicast group to an interface. The multicast PIM works fine but when I try to remov...

Resolved! Nexus 1010 HA Error

Hi,While I bring Up Secondary Nexus 1010 I am getting this error on primaryError in getting supervisor and internal state of other supervisor.sh redundancy status Redundancy role--------------- administrative: primary ope...