helloon Vmware Virtual distributed switch there are limitation of 8192 ports from vmware KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1038193what is the limitation/recomandation for Nexus1000V archi...
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...
Hi,We have N2K dual homed to 2 N5K. The N2K registers the fex with one of the N5K. But when one of the N5K fails it takes more than a minute to register with the second N5K.How can we reduce this delay so that there is minimum timeout between failove...
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...
Greetings All,I am having a heck of a time getting these 1010's running. I am tring to create a virtual services blade and I am using a Cisco guide and when I attempt to enable the new VSB I get an error. I verified that the file that I am using is...
This is a repost of my question in R&S. Cisco's DCI Design and Deployment Guide Release 2.0 describes an implementation where SP(s) provide a redundant VPLS solution with n-PE, where PWs terminate on a VSS pair at each cust premise. To prevent L2 lo...
N2K data sheet says:Up to 24 fabric extenders per Cisco Nexus 5548P, 5548UP, 5596UP switch (8 fabric extenders for L3 configurations)Three questions:1. Does the current release allow for 24 fabric extenders on 5548P, or is still at 12?2. How does the...
We have a customer wanting to connect a Checkpoint firewall in HA mode directly to the N7K. The problem is the HA traffic is not being passed. With Catalyst switches this could be resolved by configuring a static MAC address on each of the ports the ...
I am upgrading the software on a NX-1000v. When I run the pre-upgrade utility I pass every check except check #2 (Port-profiles). The output tells me to put the speed and duplex configurations on the Port-Profile and remove them from the interface. H...
I have been playing with Auto-Deploy in vSphere 5, and it works great with a standard vswitch. However, when I try to use auto-deploy with the Cisco Nexus 1000v, I am having some trouble. The auto-deploy relies on host-profiles, and I wanted to kno...
Hi,I have a lot of problems to connect a HP VC FlexFabric to my Nexus 7K. First, we tried to form a etherchannel, it was impossible then we tried to connect in access mode with same resultsHere some info about that:>------ LOG ------<CEP_N7018 %ETHPO...
