Server Networking

Hi - What;s the official Cisco recommendation regarding STP and vPC? A lot of people think that the ability to run MLAGs precludes the need to have STP running because no ports need to be blocked anymore...etc etc etcBut I believe Cisco still recomme...

I'm doing some redundancy tests for servers connected through CNA (only ethernet for the moment) to two Nexus 5010 switches with VPC. Test lab looks like the attached file. Additionaly, both Nexus 5K switches are connected through the management port...

Question on how to setup a Nexus 5548 so that all traffic (logging, radius, telnet, ssh, ...) is sourced from theManagmeent interface (MGMT0).Current configuration hasvrf context management  0.0.0.0/0 1.1.1.1int mgmt0  ip address 1.1.1.2/24Two questi...

hi all,There is firewall between nexus 1000v and vcentre and ESX 4.1i hosts.Could u pls advise which TCP/UDP ports to be opened for communication among Nexus1000v, vcentre and ESX hosts?Thank you very much!Best Regards,

Does anyone have a deep-dive white paper on Fabric Path?All I can find on Cisco's website is an 8-page overview.Thanks

I have setup a promiscuous VETH port group on a 1000v. I have found it works, as in the veth port group can ping all VM's in the secondary community and isolated vLans.My problem is that Cisco is saying this is NOT supported. They state that the only...

A Nexus 5010 running NX/OS 5.0(2)N2(1) with the following featuresno feature telnetno telnet server enableno feature http-serverfeature tacacs+cfs eth distributefeature udldfeature interface-vlanfeature lacpfeature lldpfeature fexand an active NTP an...

Hi,i'm trying to configure FIREWALL load-balancing via ACE in L2 mode, andthere is something i don't understand."client 1" ping "client 2", trace shows - the ping crossing MSFC - arriving on ACE via VLAN 10 - existing via ACE VLAN 11 - ping reach the...

We have a 1000v switch uplinked to nexus 5K and Catalyst 4500 switches. I can see all the VEMs(ESX servers) connected to the nexus 5K uplink switch and everything seems working fine. However, I am not able to see the VEMs uplinked to Cisco Catalyst 4...

Folks:Let's say the scenario is a blade chassis with four (4) 10G CEE uplinks to a ToR FCF....(maybe even a UCS - doesnt matter).In  such a converged network environment at the server edge, how does one  determine how much uplink bandwidth to dedicat...