Server Networking

Hi!I have a questions about Cisco Adapter FEX and VM Fex.As i understand, Cisco Adapter FEX gives multiple vNIC on one mezzanine card, and each of them appears as virtual port on Fabric Interconnect.Also, same thing for VM-FEX, each VM NIC appears as...

Hi,Please i there any one has already test the SFP transceivers such 1000BaseT  SFP from other vendors on Cisco NEXUS 5500. Regards

Good afternoon,I was wondering if someone might be able to help,  I have an interesting setup which I am working with at the moment which consists of 4x Nexus 55xx switches running HSRP for around 4 VLAN's. What we are looking to do advertise routes ...

I have two 5548UP connected to two Nexus 7k forming double sided vPC design. The 5k is acting as access layer top of the rack and 7k as aggregate. The 7k is configured with vrf contexts and vlans with vrrp.I followed the best practices for double-sid...

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 SFP...