Server Networking

Hi everyone, I'm creating a datacenter infrastructure with Nexus 5000/2000. the scheme is joint with the message. Nexus 2000 FEX Fabric is dual homed to Nexus 5000. Servers are dual homed too to Nexus 2000. The SAN has 2 cards. Each one is interconne...

Hello,I'm looking to create a new infrastructure based off UCS and I have a requirement for some micro-segmentation. (We don't have the budget for something like NSX.) The plan it to start with a 4 node VMWare Ent+ cluster.  The guests need to be in ...

Can anyone please advise if there are any differences in the ways which an ACE10 and ACE30 modules do load balancing - something which might affect http?  In other words, if I do an upgrade from an ACE10 to ACE30, are there any configuration changes ...

Hi, I have a pile of Cisco C220M4 and C240M4 servers running in a testbed for researchers to use.  They each have a VIC 1227 card in them.  The machines are running in standalone mode (there's some other software managing certain aspects of them and ...

Hello,We are trying to implement n1k on a rh Juno openstack but something is not working correctly :The vsm and vem are ok. Profile are seen in both vsm and openstack dashboard.Bridge group are created by openstack on the vsm for vnid.Our problem is ...

In Nexus1000v, the ethernet X/Y and Port-Channel A/B are created automatically when migrating the vmnic to vDS in vcenter,Several questions: 1. Why Port-Channel is created??2. What's the different between Port-Channel and Ethernet in Nexus1000v??3. C...

Hi, we've just added 3 x B200M4 to a UCS env running 2.2(3a), the blades shipped with 2.2(5a) and version 7.0 of board controller firmware.Once the service Profile is associated or if manually executing the steps, the activation of the 5.0 board cont...

Hi All, I am trying to configure CISCO CIMC IP on UCS E160-M2 version. I am selecting NIC Port as dedicated and redundancy as None and I am selecting CON port as dedicated port but still I am not able to save the config and it is giving erroe like "c...

Hi Community. What is the best and easy way to configuring routing on Cisco Nexus with VPC and Fexs?. Thank you so Much.

I have topology as follows NX7010-1 and NX7010-2  are configured as follow:interface Vlan501no shutdown  ip address 172.16.32.11/22  ip ospf passive-interface  ip router ospf 1 area 0.0.0.0  hsrp 100preempt    ip 172.16.32.1  interface Vlan501no shut...

I have a few questions about Nexus ITD.1. Can I have ITD running on multiple Nexus 7000 chassis at multiple data centers all active? Seems like I could since it is stateless, but this does raise other questions (see below).2. Does ITD provide true co...

I am trying to upgrade firmware on a UCS E160D by booting from a HUU-2.3.1.iso.  Server boots from ISO fine but eventually returns msg "Error Discovery Timed Out (Error Code 913).  this is a critical error and the host will reboot".  Server is curren...

What's the difference between these 2 twinax cables besides the obvious price? SFP-10G-AOC10M           $260SFP-H10GB-ACU10M      $410Both are active cables and 10 meters. The compatibility document does show some switches accept both, others one one...

Hi All. I'm attempting to set up the Nexus 1000v switch, version 5.2.1.SV3.1.3.I've installed the VSM and VEM components.I cannot upload the new plug-in via the vsphere native client - the option is greyed-out, as per attachment.I have two esxi hosts...

Hi ,I am planning to upgrade N5Ks pair and four N2Ks from 5.2.N.1 to 7.x.x.x. The objective is to perform this upgrade without disruption as all servers are dual homed and L3 is not configured on Nexus.  There are 2 x N5Ks and 4 x N2Ks and each N2K h...