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Nexus and Span sessions

RonaldNutter
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I am in the early planning stages for a 6509 to Nexus 7K migration. Based on my experience with the 7K's at a previous company where we ran into a lot of issues, I am trying to be very careful.

I am more at home with the 6500 chassis and know what I can do with them.  I remember running into a limitation on the Nexus that involved their not supporting span sessions like the 6500's do.  Is that still the case ?  Any idea of a roadmap as to when/if that will be supported ? 

If that isnt an option in the short term, I will need to look at a substantial investment in ethernet tap's to replace the lost span functionality because the security group's heavy use of span sessions.

Thanks,

Ron

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Fabienne Stephanoff
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hello Ron,

It is most definitely supported. Here is a link to the config guide to help you get started:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/system_management/configuration/guide/sm_14span.html

Fabienne

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