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Nexus 5000 vPC primary failover

Good day all,We have 7 Nexus 2000 dual-homed to 2 cisco nexus 5548UP using vPC in production, deployed as a routed access layer because the nexus 5000 have the layer 3 daughtercard and it does eigrp routing and also HSRP .This weekend we did some tes...

Resolved! Total speed for port-channel when config speed 1000 in nexus5548?

hi ,everyone.now i connect cisco 6509 and nexus 5548up using two 1000M link,and i want to binding two link as port-channel,because 5548up port is 10GE ,cisco 6509 port is 1GE,i config speed 1000 in the nexus5548 ethernet port ,and i find that speed 1...

VM-FEX with Nexus 5500

While configuring vcenter to N5K connection(svs connection just like in Nexus 1000v) we need to connect only thru vpc primary switch i.e. connect command under svs connection <name> only applied on vpc primary switch. What happens when VPC primary...

Resolved! Unable to migrate network to Nexus 1000V

GreetingsI'm unable to migrate the ESXi hosts' management network to the N1KV DS as network connectivity is lost when I commence the migration. When I start the migration I leave one pNIC assigned to the vSphere standard switch to maintain network co...

Nexus 4000 Crash and reboot

I have a customer with many nexus 4000 blade switches, all are running 4.1(2)E1(1h). The switches crashes and reboots by itself. "cdp hap reset" seems to be the problem. I can't find anything about this issiue on the bug toolkit.Has anyone else seen ...

Nexus DCNM System Requirement SUSE Linux in place of Red Hat Linux

Can we install DCNM management software on SUSE Linux in place of Red Hat Linux?

F5 load balancer issue connecting to N5k in a VPC.

Hi, We have deployed a pair of F5 load balancers in a VPC fashion with LACP connecting to the N5ks. I am running nx-os 5.1(3)N1(1a) on the 5ks and the F5 have the latest firmware. I have recently observed that once i reboot the N5k-A (the one set to ...

Resolved! Nexus 5000 Data Encryption ?

I have to configure a layer 3 connection between 3 nexus 5548UP using OSPF and the customer wants to encrypt the data transmitted for this connection.What option effer the nexus 5548UP in order to encrypt the traffic?Can I configure an IPSEC over GRE...

Resolved! Nexus 1000V installation issues

GreetingsI'm a masters student and i'm working on my dissertation regarding network performance on a virtualised environment. I decided to use VMware vSphere evaluation version for 60 days and it is required of me to use NetFlow in order to extract s...

ISP BGP peering with HSRP for redundancy

we have a router7507, BGP peering to one ISP. Now, we need a router redundancy solution. I want to use HSRP in the BGP peering interface, because the ISP only peering us a IP address, I have to use HSRP on two router interfaces, and use HSRP virtual ...

Resolved! Nexus 7000 copy run start "config change is already in progress"

Hello,we have an N7k with redundant supervisors.After a copy run start command was aborted (ctrl-c) because it took to mutch time, we can no longer save te configuration.n7k# copy run startup-configConfiguration update aborted: another request for co...

FEX 2232TM not recognized by Nexus 5010P

Hi there,I don't have any clue what this problem might be so please help.I have a brandnew FEX 2232TM which is connected to a NEXUS 5010P running the following firmware:oftware BIOS: version 1.5.0 loader: version N/A kickstart: version 5.2...

Resolved! 9134 and Inter VSAN Routing

Can a Fabric Switch such as the 9134 do Inter VSAN Rouring (IVR)?The 9134 supports VSANs but can it be configured for IVR or would this be done on another device.RegardsStewart

Resolved! Datacenter evolution: N7k or C6500

Hi,I curretnly study how to make our datacenters evoluate.For the physical physical architecture:- We have 2 datacenters, L2 interconnected in 10gbps.- On each datacenter, 2 x C6500 act as core and distribution in the same time.- The access layer con...

Replace C3750G stacks by Nexus 2000?

Hi,we have in our datacenter C3750G stacks. As some of the models will become out-os-support in 2014, I would like to analyze to replace them by Nexus 2000 (conncted to Nexus 5000). At a first glance, I thought this could be a good option to save mon...

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Nexus 5000 vPC primary failover

Resolved! Total speed for port-channel when config speed 1000 in nexus5548?

VM-FEX with Nexus 5500

Resolved! Unable to migrate network to Nexus 1000V

Nexus 4000 Crash and reboot

Nexus DCNM System Requirement SUSE Linux in place of Red Hat Linux

F5 load balancer issue connecting to N5k in a VPC.

Resolved! Nexus 5000 Data Encryption ?

Resolved! Nexus 1000V installation issues

ISP BGP peering with HSRP for redundancy

Resolved! Nexus 7000 copy run start "config change is already in progress"

FEX 2232TM not recognized by Nexus 5010P

Resolved! 9134 and Inter VSAN Routing

Resolved! Datacenter evolution: N7k or C6500

Replace C3750G stacks by Nexus 2000?

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