Server Networking

Hi, first of all, this is possible right? We are in L3 mode of course.1. How does discovery work? i.e. How does the VSM find the hosts over L3? I don't see any commands that target an IP address...2. What ports need to be opened? Thanks, Claire

Hi,I recently restated my Nexus 1K's and now after the restart i get the following message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name                HA-Role     HA-Status   Status                   Location---...

Hi All, We have recently implemented our first Nexus 1000v (v5.0.0 00000) on ESXi 5.5 hosts and are having issues with random VEM disconnects and I want to figure out why. Yesterday, and previously, we have had instances of an ESX host dropping off t...

Hi,We have Cisco Nexus 5k device. It was function well few days back. Sudden rebooted happened due to power outage. After that i am not able to connect a console..stat ID amber light in front side and back side its green light. Could you please help ...

Hello all. Im trying to send multicast traffic over the same VLAN (Source and destination are on the same VLAN). I have a Nexus 5k at the DC access (the source of the multicast stream comes from there). I have back to back vPC to the core Nexus 5ks, ...

A few days ago we lost a 5548 switch in our data center. All interfaces that were supposed to be up showed up/up. The management IP address was pingable, could telnet to the box, no indications of resource problems with the switch itself. All SNMP me...

I update my vnic template on  2nics with new vlan but under the connection policyu its not showing the new vlan and not updating. any idea?

I have got NetApp storage which is equipped with 10Gig ports and shipped with SFP-H10GB-CU3M twinax cable assembly wherein I am planning to propose a design to connect SFP-H10GB-CU3M to WS-X6708-10G-3C blade on my 6509E chassis switches.Just wanted t...

I need to connect a standalone server to our nexus 5000 switch. I configured the switchport mode f. What are the next steps to needed for the server to access the san?

Hello guys,Could you help me to get the right answer?descriptionI get alot of Input packet drops ,N1K-DC1-01-INT# sh int | i drop    21999658 input packet drops    0 output packet drops    21998884 input packet drops    0 output packet drops    46233...

I am deploying a Data Centre Interconnect using OTV on Nexus 7700.  All the "best practice" documents I have seen on this use two VDCs, one for the aggragate and core of each data centre, and one for the OTV encapsulation engine.  I wonder whether to...

Hi All, Does anyone have or know of a CISCO doc that has the list of supported 10GB twinax cables and SFP+ modules for CISCO 3850? Appreciate your input.

Is there any possibility by which a primary switch(nexus 5k) can trigger something which can cause the vlan database to be deleted from secondary switch(Nexus 5k) when they brought up on vpc?