Server Networking

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’m about to start the configuration of two new Nexus 5010 with FC-module and license, please have a look at the attached Visio drawing. The servers have one CNA card with two ports connected to each of the switches which should be used both for n...

Hi,I am seeing Mac address for my VM's appearing on all the hosts in the cluster.  Is this normal behavior?  We are running ESXi4.1 with VSM 4.2(1)SV1(4) on the Nexus 1010 appliance.  Any help on this would be appreciated.  Thanks.FC-DCnxVSM-01# show...

Hi,Were deploying a couple 5548's and eight 2248TP's.  At the very bottom of the “Topology Choice for Connectivity Between Cisco Nexus 5000 Series and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series” section of this document (link below)  it states that FCoE is not supporte...

Can someone please tell me how the 1000V gets its serial number?  I have a few I need to register the license PAK and they all seem to have the same serial number.

Hi There,I have 2 x 5020s peered together with a switch profile. Somehow the switch-profile configurations have gone out of sync.1st 5020switch-profile  : xxxx----------------------------------------------------------Start-time: 889959 usecs after Tu...

Hi,what is the minimal number of fabric modules in a Nexus 7009 chassis? To operate the M1 linecards (80Gbps to the fabric) 1 fabric2 module whould be enough. For redundancy reasons I would pick 2 of them, but the ICT tells me that a minimum of 3 fab...

Hi All,Last night we were testing failover of our Nexus 5000 ToR switches and found that they did not behave as expected. In this rack we have two Nexus 5000's connected directly to a series of ESX servers. These ESX servers are then bundled into vPC...

Hello,I see DHCP relay is the replacement for IP Helper.  The documentation for implementation shows:_Ensure that the DHCP snooping feature is enabled. You can use the show feature to verify that the DHCPsnooping feature is enabled. The DHCP relay ag...