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What are the identifying charastics of N1kv/VMware specific traffic so I can build ACL's to mark this traffic?  The N1kv has built in protocol matching abilities for the following traffic types:  n1k_control,  n1k_mgmt,  n1k_packet,  vmw_ft, vmw_iscs...

Hi,For uplink port channels in 1000v, I am seeing mac-pinning chosen in many best practice guides when used in Cisco UCS.  However, I have not been able to find any documentation why mac-pinning is infact better choice than VPC-HM for deploying 1000v...

I am having an issue creating a port group on nexus 1000v.I create the port profile on the vsm using the following config...port-profile type vethernet v506-openGI  vmware port-group  switchport mode access  switchport access vlan 506  no shutdown  s...

I am interested with the details of communication between vem and vsm. So I have a few questions:1. Is the vsm configuration command encapsulated with the vlan tag before it is sent to the vswitch of the below host? Or this vlan tag is attached by th...

I would want to upgrade a Nexus 1010 from 4.2(1)SP1(2) to 4.2(1)SP1(4).The Nexus 1010 is standalone ; it is a lab environnement.Nx1010-1# show moduleMod  Ports  Module-Type                       Model               Status---  -----  -----------------...

Hi,    I have a connection issue between my VSM (on Nexus 1010) and my VEM. I don't see the VEM witch the show module command.Control VLAN correctly arrives on the UCS hosting the ESX with VEM.The control VLAN is different from the ESX Management VLA...

Hi,I have not find best practices about vCenter location. It is better that the vCenter is on an ESX not manage by the Nexus 1000v ?On cisco documentations, logical figures show the  vCenter out of VEM but some cases studies migrate the vCenter on th...

HiWe have setup some servers with 4 10gb Ethernet cards all running FCoE.Two 10gb NICs are configured in a port channel for production VMs and two in a second portchannel for non production VMs.We have Vmotion,Vmware FT and VEM L3 ctrl running on the...

Dear all,We will move soon to a complete and new architecture like esxi(vm) - UCS blade - n1k - m81kr – 6248 - n5k – 3560.I found a lot of documentation about the QOS but no one who explain a policy from end to end, I understand that most of device r...

Can 2 different 1000v join the same vxlan.With the limit of 64 ESXi host per 1000v I can see wanting to connect spread vxlans accross 1000v switchs?From what I understand of how it works it should work as long as the vnlan/host are configured on the ...

I am getting the following error when running the "no vmware dvs" command:vDS vsm port 0 is connected to entity xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Virtual NIC vmk1, type:hostVmkVnicDoes anyone know how to remove?Thanks

Hello Cisco,I have a question about VSM performance. In our largest n1v environment (44 hosts,  432 vnic, 172vmnic) we see that the VSM (version 4.2(1)SV1(4a) ) has often a very high CPU load. The vcenter shows that the average VSM load is always ~75...

What's the best way to upgrade a vSphere 4 environment with a 1000v to a vSphere 5 environment with a 1000v? I'd like to do the upgrade without having any VM downtime.Is there any way to upgrade the VEMs and VSMs without requiring host restarts when ...