Cisco HX use Ethernet port 1 G for DMZ

[lamsarr]

Hi Makus,

I have a question.

In my architecture (3 nodes cisco HX C240c M5) + 2 UCS FI 6248up interconnected on my cisco switch Catalyst backbone. All my equipments are interconnected by SFP+ 10G (HX-node ---> Cisco FI ---> Backbone Cisco Catalys)

And I have 4 vlans in my Data Center.

50 hx-inband-mgmt

100 hx-storage -network

200 hx-vmotion

(40, 300) vm-network

Now I want add a network bridge between my HX-node and my Palo Alto Firewall to connect on my Public DMZ.

I want use the both 1G Ethernet ports on my HX-Node by node to connect that on the DMZ Switch. But in FI KVM console on my nodes I don’t find my Ethernet vmnic. How can I discover my both Ethernet ports in my VMware ESXi?

Best regards,

[Jaderson Pessoa]

Hello,

It is necessary turn on your interface, check the link below to help you.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006074?lang=en_US

If necessary, create a vswitch to has better management.

https://support.sonus.net/display/DSCDOC161/Creating+a+Virtual+Switch+in+VMware+ESXi

Regards.

[lamsarr]

In my architecture (3 nodes cisco HX C240c M5) + 2 UCS FI 6248up interconnected on my cisco switch Catalyst backbone. All my equipments are interconnected by SFP+ 10G (HX-node ---> Cisco FI ---> Backbone Cisco Catalys)

And I have 4 vlans in my Data Center.

50 hx-inband-mgmt

100 hx-storage -network

200 hx-vmotion

(40, 300) vm-network

Now I want add a network between my HX-node and my Palo Alto Firewall to connect on my Public DMZ.

Instead of using  both 1G ports I had add a link between my fabrics and the Palo firewall to 10G link.

To do this i :

- connecte fabirc to Palo

- enble a uplink port,

- create a vlan400,

- make NIC9 and NIC10 of my servers node to vlan400

But when i associate vlan400 to uplink port i have a indicate error (ether VIF x / xxx down, reason: ENM source pinning failed”) in Vlan on UCSM.

Could you guide me to create this link to FIs and Palo Firewall?

Best regards,