Hi,
I'm designing a Cisco UCS Blade server enviroment and want to use Cisco VM-FEX. I also have Cisco Nexus 5548UP and Nexus 7009 & 7004 datacenter switches. I need advice on the following:
Thank you.
Michael.
Also,
Thank you.
Michael.
Hello Michael,
1. VM-FEX Parent Switch (Controlling Bridge) could be
- Cisco 6100/6200 Fabric Interconnect : Support ESXi, Hyper-V and Redhat KVM
- Nexus 5500 switch, Nexus 6000 switch with VM-FEX license: Support ESXi
2. Nexus 7k is not supportted to be the parent switch
3. VM-FEX and Nexus 1000v are mutually exclusive on a single UCS blade. Also each VM-FEX interface is independnet and one could have both emulated and pass-through mode on the same VM
4. Both VM-FEX and Nexus 1000v utilize VEM mondule on ESX host but they are different binary files. VM-FEX VEM
could be donwloaded from driver ISO
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5. VM-FEX currently only support Ethernet traffic