Server Networking

Hi,I'm designing a Cisco UCS Blade server enviroment and want to use Cisco VM-FEX. I also have Cisco Nexus 5548UP and Nexus 7009 & 7004 datacenter switches. I need advice on the following:What is the Parent switch for Cisco VM-FEX? Is it:Cisco 6200 F...

Hi.How i can check the port utilization in Nexus 5k?Thank you.

Hello all,According to Design and Configuration Guide : Best Practices for Virtual Port Channels (vPC) on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series SwitchesAssumptions: peer-swtich is not enabled here.In vPC deployments, STP is actually running on both peer devices. A...

Hello,Working on a project to deploy VXLAN for vCloud Director which requires IP multicast for overlay encaps. All host blades are running ESXi in UCS chassis. We've dedicated a VLAN ID 4050 for mutlicast VXLAN traffic where VLAN 4050 does not curren...

Hi everybody.I found the nexus 7700 Fabric datasheet there was 220G per slot.For example, the nexus 7710.There was 220G per slot per fabric module and result is 6*220G*8=10560G, duplex is  21120G=21T.How does the 42T came from?

Please help!Could anyone out there please assist me with basic configuration between Nexus Switch and Catalyst Switch, so that devices connected on the catalyst switch can talk to devices connected on nexus switch and vice-versa? In my current setup ...

Hello everyone, We are currently running a datacenter with 2 7K switches and re route to our existing DR site which is a different network. We are building a new data center close by and will have 2 10 Gig links <1 MS latency. I have heard that OTV m...

Went looking through my Nexus 4001i logs today, and started noticing a bunch of STP role and port change messages:2013 Jul  5 14:40:31 N4k-SLOT7-SW1 %STP-6-PORT_ROLE: Port Ethernet1/1 instance MST0000 role changed to designated2013 Jul  5 14:40:31 N4...

DNS is what I'm using for most of my subnets. The problem is that I have a handful of subnets that have devices that are under the control of an outside agency. Those devices access a server in my DC by pointing to the IP Address. If I performed a fa...

Hi - I get this cycle of message regularely on my N5K pair;%FWM-2-STM_LOOP_DETECT: Loops detected in the network for mac bf80.5bee.2a60 among ports Eth101/1/19 and Eth101/1/20 vlan 120 - Disabling dynamic learn notifications for 180 seconds %FWM-2-ST...

Hi all,I'm trying to configure N1KV for Hyper-V using REST API and Powershell. To do it, I'm following this guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/hyperv/sw/5_2_1_s_m_1_5_1/rest/api/guide/n1000v_rest_api-getting_started....

Hi Guyz,Does new Nexus 2K such as 2248PQ, 2232 support native FC on fex host Ports.?Thanks,Mazhar