Server Networking

I have a new Catalyst 4500X switch.  I have the basic config on it, with ports configured as trunks, with nonegotiate.  When I plug the switches in, the ports come up and CDP shows my neighbors.  However, when I try to ping the other switches, it won...

Hello community,I'm planning a upgrade procedure for a Nexus 7000 vPC enviroment with M1 I/O modules to M2 I/O's.I have already contacted TAC and Cisco engineering about this upgrade. Unfortunately I have received different answers about a possible m...

Hi, Is it possible to use the native 40GE ports on the N7K-M206FQ-23L module for the VPC Peer Link, or do you have to break these ports out into 10GE ? I have read that 10GE ports must be used for the VPC peer link. Thanks in advance.

 Just moved my entire off a 6509 to the dual 5596up's running version 6.0(2)N2(5) with UCS. Now, Vcenter5 (physical machine not vm) is having problems with its "heartbeat" to tcp/udp 902. It isn't a routing issue, not a "arp issue", not a issue with ...

Hi all,I have to add a vNIC to a blade template. However, I heard that doing that will power cycle all blades that are bound to that template. Is that corect? I only have 1 template (for all VMware server blades). This would power cycle the whole far...

Hi All. The nexus is booting for a random period of time, i catch the Next logs on the failure: NEXUS-5K-SW2# show log2014 Sep 21 06:27:03 NEXUS-5K-SW2 %$ VDC-1 %$ %SYSMGR-2-SERVICE_CRASHED: Service "snmpd" (PID 2670) hasn't caught signal 6 (core wil...

Hi All. Nexus is booting in a random period of time, i catch the next logs on the failure: NEXUS-5K-SW2# show log2014 Sep 21 06:27:03 NEXUS-5K-SW2 %$ VDC-1 %$ %SYSMGR-2-SERVICE_CRASHED: Service "snmpd" (PID 2670) hasn't caught signal 6 (core will be ...

Hi, all I would like to provide a vPC topology having the fewest SFP modules for connecting to external gateway devices. First, please see attached PNG file. The topology A is needed four SFP modules on N55, and the topology B is also needed four SF...

Yesterday both our Nexus 7000's rebooted unexpectedly.  Both gave us the following reason   Reason: Reset triggered due to HA policy of Reset  System version: 6.1(5)  Service: dhcp_snoop hap reset  Did some Google searching and did not find much. Tha...

Can I get some idea on how to setup pvlan on the nexus 7004?  I have setup pvlan on the vmware side but looks like I need to do the same on the physical switches?

hello all. does anyone know how to change the admin vdc name? I have a request to have the admin vdc name changed on a nexus 7700 sup2e running 6.2.2 code. Thanks,