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With Mike Frase Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and High Availability for Data and Storage Protocols with Cisco expert Mike Frase. Mike Frase...

Hi,We are testing Nexus products before implementing them in our DataCenter.We are using two FEX 2248 Dual-Connected to two 5596.Actually, when we upgrade one 5596 5.0(3)N2.1 to 5.0(3)N2.2 using the "install all" command, both 2248 are upgraded then ...

Dear all,One of my customers has a pair of existing Nexus already.  They were wondering with the 4507R, can they use the 10G ports of the Supervisor Blade of 4507R (WS-X45-SUP7L-E) to link up with the Nexus 7k on its' 10GB ports?? And what cards do i...

This may be a dumb question but I would like to know why the uplink ports of a fabric extender are in amber color.when I issue the command show fex xxx detail and show diagnostistic it gives me this output:N5K# Show fex 102 detailFEX: 102 Description...

Hi,I am running 2 vrf on Nexus 7k 5.2(1) NX-OS.My external vrf getting ebgp route from bgp peer and I would like these route to import into shared vrf .Please see my config below, I am unable to import any route into shared vrf.vrf context external  ...

HiCan anyone clerify what is pixm?We got this message "PIXM-4-PIXM_SYSLOG_MESSAGE_TYPE_WARNING:"Please collect PIXM tech support using show tech pixm???Also is there is DOC about NEXUS architecture?Thanks

Hi all,   Is there any option to upgrade NX-OS forcefully with boot system command , if we face any problem in install all.? If it is there can you pls  share the step for that.Also pls share the recovery option if something goes wrong.Thanks in adva...

hi out thereI have been looking on the various io-modules for the nexus 7k - and I must admit - I am a bit in doubt what to select..I need a io-module which supports L3  at 10 Gig where I for a start will need 6-8 10 gig ports and 2-6 1 gig ports - I...

Is the N2148K connected to a the N7K M1 line card a supported configuration? I do not see it listed in the support matrix listed here, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps10110/data_sheet_c78-507093.html But from the N7K con...

With Lucien Avramov Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn about design, configuration and troubleshooting of the Cisco Nexus 2000, 3000, 5000 Series with cisco Expert Lucien Avramov. Lucie...

TeamPlease correct me if I am wrongSenario:Nexus 7000, top of the rack design. Fex can connect directly to 7000 via vpc link correct? Or do I need nexus 5k as end/ middle row for connectivity back to 7000.Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPhone App

Hi,I'm our Datacentre the number of servers is reaching the maximum available from the current network mask /24 and we would like to move to a larger mask, /22, without loosing service. At the moment we have 3 different vlans, service, management and...

Dear N7K expert,We are using N7K switch in our lab for performance testing, I have a issue that I couldn't figure out why, hope someone can help.Basically I found sometimes when I configure a port as trunked port, then add vlans to this port, but it ...