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nexus 1000v Installtion problem: Can't see the data port group in the vCenter

wagde
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Level 1

Hi

I'm trying to install and configure the Nexus1000v.4.0.4.SV1.2 according to the Getting Started guide n1000v_gsg.pdf.

I finished the installation and configuration "almost" successfully. Every thing worked fine, until I wanted to connect a VM vNic to the data20 port group. I noticed that the port group (data20) is not shown in the list of the port groups when I try to connect "Network Adapter 1" to it.

If I switch to the Network view. I see that my nexus configured and have a "data20" network. but It have 0 ports.

Can you please help?

Thanx

Wagde

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abbharga
Level 4
Level 4

Hi Wagde,

Can you post / attach your configuration from the VSM for us to take a look at?

Abhinav

Hi Abhinav

Can you please tell me what commands should I run in the VSM to get the configuration?

I'm new to cisco nexus 1000v and I'm not familiar with the commands.

Thanx

Wagde

Output of the 'show run' command from the VSM will be fine..

Here you go:

n2# show run

version 4.0(4)SV1(2)

username admin password 5 $1$qHZap8N4$lF/1bHAcf37gElFTvv4Vu1  role network-admin

telnet server enable

ip domain-lookup

ip host n2 172.23.5.124

kernel core target 0.0.0.0

kernel core limit 1

system default switchport

vem 3

  host vmware id a2b92215-0d76-33a4-9df9-a81c8ebe0bdb

snmp-server user admin network-admin auth md5 0xe60b8856f288d60787ef398b8ea5ba28 priv 0xe60b8856f288d60787ef398b8ea5ba28 localizedke

y

snmp-server enable traps license

vrf context management

  ip route 0.0.0.0/0 172.23.5.4

switchname n2

vlan 1,20,260

vdc n2 id 1

  limit-resource vlan minimum 16 maximum 513

  limit-resource monitor-session minimum 0 maximum 64

  limit-resource vrf minimum 16 maximum 8192

  limit-resource port-channel minimum 0 maximum 256

  limit-resource u4route-mem minimum 32 maximum 80

  limit-resource u6route-mem minimum 16 maximum 48

port-profile type ethernet Unused_Or_Quarantine_Uplink

  description Port-group created for Nexus1000V internal usage. Do not use.

  vmware port-group

  shutdown

  state enabled

port-profile type vethernet Unused_Or_Quarantine_Veth

  description Port-group created for Nexus1000V internal usage. Do not use.

  vmware port-group

  shutdown

  state enabled

port-profile type ethernet data20

  description "Data"

  vmware port-group

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan 20

  no shutdown

  state enabled

port-profile type ethernet system-uplink

  description "System"

  vmware port-group

  switchport mode trunk

  switchport trunk allowed vlan 260

  no shutdown

  system vlan 260

  state enabled

port-profile type ethernet vm-uplink

  description "VM"

  vmware port-group

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan 260

  no shutdown

  state enabled

interface Ethernet3/3

  inherit port-profile system-uplink

interface mgmt0

  ip address 172.23.5.124/24

interface control0

boot kickstart bootflash:/nexus-1000v-kickstart-mz.4.0.4.SV1.2.bin sup-1

boot system bootflash:/nexus-1000v-mz.4.0.4.SV1.2.bin sup-1

boot kickstart bootflash:/nexus-1000v-kickstart-mz.4.0.4.SV1.2.bin sup-2

boot system bootflash:/nexus-1000v-mz.4.0.4.SV1.2.bin sup-2

svs-domain

  domain id 153

  control vlan 260

  packet vlan 260

  svs mode L2 

svs connection VC

  protocol vmware-vim

  remote ip address 194.29.47.70 port 80

  vmware dvs uuid "3e 30 00 50 9f d0 ff 32-d0 83 e2 e8 2f 06 a4 86" datacenter-name Wagde

  connect

Thanx

Wagde

Wagde,

Here is issue:

You have defined the 'data20' port-profile as an ethernet type profile, which will allow it be be used only for the uplink interface i.e to be applied on the physical ethernet interfaces. For a profile to be used for the VM interfaces it has to be of the type 'vethernet'.

Here is what you can do:

1) On the VSM issue the following command to delete the current data20 port-profile: 'no port-profile data20'

2) Define the port-profile again as: 'port-profile type vethernet data20' and then specify the rest of the configuration.

In the show run it would look something like this:

port-profile type vethernet data20

description "Data"

  vmware port-group

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan 20

  no shutdown

  state enabled

Hope this helps!!!

./Abhinav

Great thanx

In the getting started guide it's ethernet and not vethernet :-)

I guss it should be fixed.

It's working fine now

Thanx

Wagde

Hi Wagde,

   Can you please specify which installation guide you are referring to and the section/chapter which has this ambiguity? We will get it corrected.

Thanks,

Vinutha

Hi

I'm referring to the n1000v_gsg.pdf document

Chapter 4

Page 19

In step 2: The data20 port profile type should be vethernet.

Thanx

Wagde

Thanks Wagde. The feedback has been submitted to the documentation team.

Thanks,

Vinutha