Server Networking

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 ...

I got a few B200 M2 Blades that have no CPU/RAM, since these are EOL/EOS I am just going to get CPU/RAM from good ol' eBay.The product documentation states they are 5500 based, but all the CPU choices for the B200 M2 are X5600 based.Anyone running th...

Hi,I need to transport traffic from a span session composed from several ip-phones to a a VM that is running over an Hyper-V running on a B-Series chassis in End-Host mode, so basically I need to confirm that It's possible to transport this traffic u...

HiWe are coming up with an effort to change the Vcenter server to physical to virtual. Is it a best practice to keep the same IP address on the Vcenter server -> shut the physical and bring the virtual up, to keep the SVS config consistent on N1KVs ?...

Our customer have a 5548P pair with 3 dual-homed N2000 fex.The switch-profile looks to be out of sync between them. one has rev 47 and the other one 44.Doing show switch-profile status give the following result in the one with revision 47switch-profi...

On the Nexus 7000 you need to disable OMF for each VLAN with IPv6 traffic. Otherwise IPv6 Neighbor Solicitations and all other IPv4/IPv6 source-only groups are not flooded within the VLAN.Q1: In my eyes the better workaround is to enable MLD snooping...

Hello, I'd like to consult with you guys regarding an issue I have on an N5K device: I have an N5K device running software version 5.1(3)N2(1), to which the SSH access is being locked out every couple of days.When the issue occurs, I connect it using...

Hello guys! I was wondering is this the right place to ask my questions, but thought should be fine. As I am a newbie to the LISP world, I’ve been reading a lot about it recently, but really got stuck on some fundamental bits & pieces. Being reading ...

Hi,is it possible to use a Vlan interface (SVI) for syncing the switch profile on two 5596? I tried this:2 x 5596UP with NX-OS 5.2(1)N1(3)Connected with 2 x Twinax on ports Eth1/15 and /16, portchannel 3.The Po3 is a trunk, allowed Vlan is 439. Both ...

Hi All,In the event that my entire data centre were to shut-down, is it recommended that the VLANs for AD, vCentre, vCentre DB be configured as System VLANs so that when everything powers up the VEM modules can actually communicate with these systems...