Server Networking

Apologies in advance for what might be obviously dumb questions to some, but I am new to Nexus. 1) Why would you buy a 5010/5020 over a 5548UP/5596UP? I've looked at the data sheets, and haven't yet identified the major difference between the 2 range...

Has anyone had an issue with deleting a virtual supervisor module on a 1010?A-TPL-NXS01# show virtual-service-blade summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name                Role        State          ...

Hello All,I have to connect a router (C3560E) to a vPC topology (2 * Nexus5596)I would like to create a vPC on Nexus 5500 side and a Port-channel on router side.Regarding L3 aspects all should be included in the same interconnection VLAN with vlans i...

We have two Nexus 7010 switches running a vPC domain between the two switches.  On one of the 7010B, the peer keep alive (from the mgmt VRF) is connected to a 3560B *and* that 3560B also has a data connection back to the same 7010B.  Everything is fi...

By Cisco Infromation Broadcom Ethernet card 57712 can be  use on the 3th party servers as adapter-fex (802.1br / 802.1bh ). I try to use BroadCom Card 57712 (Cisco P/N  UCSC-PCIE-BSFP=) on the IBM Servers, As standard ethernet card it works properly ...

Hello guys,We are in the middle of the installation of 2 Nexus 1010 appliances.the two appliances have a failover mechanism where you have only one address for the cluster of appliance. I don't think that it is a good idea because the Vsm on the appl...

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Hi All,Hopefully an easy question (and the right forum for it to be posted in), but I can't seem to find an answer either way in any documentation.Does the 1000v support wake on LAN?I'd like to propose the use of distributed power management (DPM) so...

Hi,sadly our N5-K's  ( 5548Up, NX-OS 5.0.(3)N2.2 ) show the following issue with ntp. I asked my colleagues about the status of the ntp serverand the box seems to be fine  (windows 2003 server).May 12 23:01:28 myn5k ntpd[4719]: ntp:time reset +0.2196...

First time using GLC-T's in a FEX 2232PP off of 5548 running 5.0(3)N1(1b).  Was getting "sfpInvalid" on show int status.  Nice engineer explained I had to remove the GLC-T's, configure the interface E101/1/1 to speed 1000 in order for the 5548/FEX to...