Server Networking

Hi,I know it is well documented using IGP's, more specifically OSPF with 7K's and vPC's but when it comes to the same thing on 5K's I am still a little confused.My topology is:5K01 and 5K02 are connected and are vPC peers, I currently have a manageme...

Hi,I have installed a Cisco Nexus N2K-C2232TM-E Fabric Extender in a datacenter:I have connected servers with 1GE NICs and configured 'speep auto' OR 'speed 1000'When I connect some of the servers to the N2K-C2232TM-E, the ports do not come upWhen I ...

We just purchased and a trying to configure Cisco C240 M3 servers with Cisco Broadcom 57712 UCSC-PCIE-BSFP network cards and Nexus 5548 switches.  Our goal is to configure these cards with virtual interfaces as implied by the documentation, in to use...

Just to background, we are having two data centres with 6509 switches as netwrok. In main data centre two F5 (BIG IP 3600) devices in active & standby mode (source nat mode). In the process of upgrading the entire infrastructure within next 3-6 moths...

HiI am a little confuse with igmp querier on Nexus 5548UPI have the following configuration on both VPC peers: vlan configuration 208  ip igmp snooping version 2  ip igmp snooping querier 192.168.201.104 But the question is shell I use the same IP fo...

Has anyone implemented GRE on F248 module ? There is one document which says it is possible with LAN enterprise package:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps9494/ps9372/data_sheet_c78-437306.html (look under licensing chapter) - this...

     Is there any special setup that is recommended when a Highly Available Cluster solution is attached to Data Center Cisco Switches or is default settings for the switch ports sufficient? I do have each NIC split across seperate switches/blades (o...

Hi guys,We have just upgraded one of our ESX hosts cu 5.1 firmware (the others are still at 4.1 ) . Everything was fine after the upgrade and the VEM was back in the VSM as module 3. After that we restarted the ESX host and the VEM never came back on...

In ourde design we have a vpc in which some members are Hot-stanby in bundlesh port-channel summary interface port-channel 2Flags:  D - Down        P - Up in port-channel (members)        I - Individual  H - Hot-standby (LACP only)        s - Suspend...

Dear Forum Users,I have a C200 series server with RAID-1 configuration.Currenlty 1 of the disks has failed. Disk model is ST3500514NS (500GB SATA disk). My question are:1. Can i replace the disk with ST9500620NS (500GB SATA)?2. If can, then the repla...

I am building a DC where we decided each service is routed in its own vrf, then in separate FW context.Some services however, needs to communicate together, and that works fine via FW.In order to offload traffic from FW, we decided to use vrf import,...

Hi,I have cisco c22 m3s v02 rackmount server ,i want to install VMware vSphere ESXI but esxi doesn't find disk to install.I tried many custom cisco iso still same problem.I have LSI mega raid and configuration is raid 1.I try to install win2012 r2 se...

I really wonder why this very neat Cisco Nexus feature is so much buggy...I have configured switch-profiles on two Cisco Nexus 5596 that already had some configuration (mostly identical).In general it is working fine, I was able to import the require...

Hi,Need  some workaround wrt the Cisco UCS C22 M3 server, it keeps disabling the HDD after the EXSi 5.1 has been installed.However the UCS server did not come with hard drives, we had to use HDD from the Cisco Performance Manager ( not yet installed ...