Server Networking

Hello,We will be replacing old 5510s with new 5548s. Since this is the production environment we would like to do it without disruption. The idea is to remove one 5510, and add 5548 to a vPC domain. After they form vPC to all FEXes, we will remove th...

I am moving from 6500's to the Nexus 7k's. I had spanning-tree root priority for even vlans in core A and odd vlans in core B. Now in have two nexus 7k's with a vpc between. The vpc carries almost all the vlans. What happens now when I set vlan 10 to...

Does anyone know if stats can be enabled either global or per interface?We are doing qos tagging and queueing and we cannot see any stats for policy-maps or for ACLs, so there is definitely no (easy) way to confirm that the qos actually works.NX-OS v...

I have designed a basic datacentre with multiple racks with multiple switches in each rack.For vMotion to work the Server moves within the sama vlan so how is same vlan is visible on multiple switches in the design?

I am working on nexus design with fabricpath , currently we have more than 5 pairs of 6500 VSS and we have  backup media servers for every pair so  that traffic will be local to that pairso we when we migrate to Nexus fabricpath,  servers can be any ...

does RJ-45 connector in the WS-X816-10T-2T module supports auto negotiation, i.e 10/100/1000/10G?

Does anyone know if Dell's M8024-k blade switch has any issues with Cisco's 7 and 10 meter active Twinax pluggables?

Hi,our server-team has established many new esx-server, without announcing us about this.So we are using overdraft licenses.After turning off older ESX-server we set free 2 licenses into the pool with this svs license transfer src-vem  vem no  licens...

Is there a page, table that will help me deside how much memory to give a vdc that I have created and added ports to. I know there are questions about route table sizes and so forth. Where can I find this information.Thank you

We recently began testing VMware ESXi 5.0 on our production network.  After observing some heavy discards (3-10 million at times) on the 10G uplinks FROM our core 6509s TO the Nexus 5Ks we began some investigation.  We started by capturing traffic on...