Server Networking

I am trying to connect an fiber connection to a service provider for a L2 trunk back to another site. It is MM fiber connecting to a Nexus 7010 1G SFP SX.The provider it telling us that it will only work if we set the speed nonegotiate command under ...

I'm running Qemu based VMs on top of debian,In my enviornment the data center gave us two vlans on one NIC, As I build VMs' NIC on top of a bridge which is build on top of vlans, when vlans become two the network connectivity of VMs is lost, but with...

Hi,I'm looking at the Nexus 5010P which saying it has 20 x 10Gbps fixed SFP+ ports.  My colleague said this comes with SFP+ ports but the picture doesn't seem to have it.Can someone confirm I still need to buy the SFP+ modules separately rather it co...

Hi,For testing purpose, I configured a QoS policy with MAC ACL to match the traffic, but for some reason the traffic couldn't get matched correctly. For example, I initiated an FTP session, but no packet got matched so that the QoS policy was not abl...

We recentely ran into a limit on number of links allowed for devices connected to nexus 2k. Currently there is only support for (1) 1GB link to Each of the 2 Nexus 2k. See Below.The question i have is if this is a hardware limitation or a software li...

Hello Virtual Experts,I was informed that you cannot Vmotion from one N1kv in one domain ID instance to another N1kv in a different domain ID.  As I understand, every Nexus 1000v switch needs to be in its own domain.  If this is the case, how does Ci...

Hello,On the Cisco Configuration Tool, the N5K has a license named N55-8SP-SSK9.  The description is Nexus 5500 Storage License, 8 Ports. We think this is related to the number of FC Ports on the N5K. Is this license somehow related to FCoE port on t...