Server Networking

I would like to purchase following switches:2x Nexus 93108TC-EX1x Nexus 2232TM-E I would use them with NX-OS, and connect them active active FEXWhich ports can/should I use on the N9K and the N2K to connect the N2K as FEX? Thanks in advance,

Hi guys,  I am looking for some technical ways to have duplicated network gateways on same network. I mean two routers with the same IP address on the same L2 network.  Let me try to explain :  I have a network infrastructure composed of two datacen...

Hi all, We have a couple of N2K-C2348TQ-10GE FEX connected to Nexus 7700 F3 in straight-through topology using FET-10G (with QSA adapter). The system is running 7.3(1)D1(1). Is it already possible to use the four flexible uplink ports (Eth1xx/2/1-4) ...

Good Day, I am looking to swap out 3rd party SFPs and replace them with Official Cisco SFPs, at a branch site. I was wondering how one would go about confirming whether or not the connected transceiver, is generic (3rd Party) or a legitimate Cisco SF...

Dear All, I am thinking to buy Nexus 5010 from eBay to learn Nexus QUESTIONS 1. Is Nexus 5010 enough to study for Datacenter exam 2. If I don't have license for it. What would run and wouldn't run I understand 5010 can't use Advanced vPC 3. If follo...

Hi  I have nexus 9300 with straight-through FEX topology. CFSoE is enabled and vPC configured only on nexus (not on FEX)I want to migrate to dual-homed FEX topology. In this doc the first step is to enable CFSoIP. Does it really required or I can lea...

Hi,I've set up cisco N7K with aaa and it works well. The box can authenticate user using aaa. The problem now when there are users that contain white space in their username.Is it possible to authenticate using this username?Because I know that we ca...

Hello all, We recently upgraded our Nexus1000V ( for VMware) from v4.2.1.SV2.2.2 to version 5.2(1)SV3(3.1) and since then, when executing a remote span to my machine, the traffic never arrives at destination anymore. The configuration looks to be c...

Hi to all! Could you please confirm my understanding of port-channel dst-mac load balance method? Lets imagine that we have port-channel to server with two NICs which were teamed together. Dst-mac load balance method was configured on switch. Logic...

Hi Team, For Data center ,  i am using a 1x pairs of N5k and 2x paris of N2k for supporting servers connectivity. Then for the DR site,  which the number of servers will be greatly reduce and I do not required 1 pairs of N5k and 2x pairs of N2K. Mea...

Hello, I have been doing a fair amount of research on whether I would be able to leverage SFP-10G-LRM for downlinks on a pair of nexus 9372PX switches with MMF as the media. According to the 10GB transceiver compatibility matrix (updated as of 11JA...

anyone has the solution for the CS C220M4 server Error 0x18008080 Cisco IMC refusing connections ??

I got the following error all of a sudden. It appears 2 last interfaces have hardware failure. Anyone has experience recovering from this besides sending back the switch? Rebooting the switch and clearing logs in the bootflash did help.  2010 Jun 24 ...