1000v Sanity check

[visitor68]

Can the 1000v be deployed in a non-Cisco networking environment? lets say we have HP blades and a Juniper ToR switch.

With the UCS system, the 1000v CLI is accessed via UCS Manager ( I think Im right about that). The UCS manager resides on the 6100s.

In a non-Cisco envirnoment, how does the 1000v CLI get accessed and managed?\

Thanks

[Chad Peterson · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The 1000v can be used in any vendor environment.  The only required vendor at the moment (besides Cisco for the 1000v) is VMWare.

When you don't use UCS you just telnet/ssh to the 1000v to access the CLI.  You will be accessing the mgmt0 port, so during the setup you will configure its IP address etc.  But initially you'll access the 1000v using vSphere/vCenter conosle

Check out this installation guide, it shows the first few steps of bringing the 1000v online:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_0/install/software/guide/install_n1000v.html#wp92772

Hope that helps

Chad

[visitor68]

Chad, good stuff. Appreciate it.