Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 1000v Don't Use Private VLANs
Aug 28, 2012
We have a requirement for private VLANS for DMZ hosting within one of our datacentres. I just want to query how private VLANs would work in our environment.We have physical servers connected to fex ports (2 fex per rack for each 5k) of a 5548UP switch, virtual servers using the nexus 1000v (vmware hosts connected to fex ports) Out firewalls and load balancers are connected to an upstream pair of nexus 7ks using vPCs.My question is this, ordinarily the firewall would be in a promiscuous port but as these reside on a physically separate switch will the normal vPC trunk still be sufficient or would the "switchport mode private-vlan trunk promiscuous" be required on the vPC up to the northbound 7k.As these connections are already in production I do not want to affect the existing traffic that doesn’t use private VLANs.
Having problem pinging from Host A on ESX1 to Host B on ESX2. Each host are assigned the same port-profile. If I put 2 host's on the same ESX machine using the same port-profile, they are able to ping each other.
n1kv-vsm# sh port-profile name xxx-prod-40port-profile xxx-prod-40 description: type: vethernet status: enabled capability l3control: no pinning control-vlan: - pinning packet-vlan: - system vlans: 1 port-group: xxxl-prod-40 max ports: 32 inherit: config attributes: switchport mode private-vlan host switchport private-vlan host-association 40 400 no shutdown evaluated config attributes: switchport mode private-vlan host switchport private-vlan host-association 40 400 no shutdown assigned interfaces: Vethernet3 Vethernet4 System-uplink profile is trunking all vlans.
regarding PVLANs and the Nexus, my understanding is that we cannot configure Private VLANs on a FEX trunk port with a NX-OS release older than 5.1(3)N2(1) for the Nexus5548... Is there any known workaround for this limitation (appart from performing a SW upgrade)?
I just installed a N1K (with code 4.2(1)SV1(4a)) and I was trying to setup a private vlan.
Example:
vlan 300 name PRI-VLAN private-vlan primary
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I upgraded another n1k (that already had pvlan configured) to this version of code and it has the private vlan option. This was just installed yesterday so I don't have the license on it yet.
According to Cisco, Nexus 1010 can host up to (6) Virtual Service blades. I can't find out how many Virtual Supervisor Modules and Virtual Ethernet Modules that make up one Nexus 1000v switches can be supported by each Virtual Service Blades. In other words, how many Nexus 1000v switches can be created with Nexus 1010 appliance?how to configure Nexus 1000v switches with vmware. without Nexus 1010, the standalone nexus 1000v switches was configured from vCenter as an OVF. But how to configure Nexus 1000v switches with vmware where nexus switches are hosted on Nexus 1010 appliance.
Is this supported on a 3750X ?? A router has two VRFs and its lan interface is a trunk with 2 VLAN IDs, let say VLAN 10 and VLAN 20. The ip address subnet of these two vlans is the same (therefore , they are in different VRFs)
fa0/1 VLAN 10 = 10.15.4.9 (VRF A) VLAN 20 = 10.15.4.10 (VRF B)
This router is connected on a 3750X switch. There is a firewall connected to this switch also, which is default gateway for several VLANs including VLAN 10 (10.15.4.1)
The goal is that VRF B ip can talk to 10.15.4.1 and VRF A can talk to 10.15.4.1 but VRF B can't talk to VRF A (10.15.4.9 <-> 10.15.4.10)
I am aware that private-vlans are not supported on edge switches like 2960 series - so my question is would it be possibel to ceate private vlans on say just the core switch which would be a 3570 or 4506 that supports private vlans and then just trunk these to the edge like normal vlans?what I need to achive is to have edge port not able to communicate to each other even across switches - which cannot be done using 'protected' port so need the private vlan feature?
We currently have a HP blade platform which has two Cisco CBS30X0 switches built into it running Version 12.2(55)SE. These are connected to two Cisco C2960 aggregation switches running Version 12.2(44)SE6. According to this article I need to upgrade these to 12.2(25)FX: url...
1.)This will according to that article only allow me to create edge ports on them, is this a hardware limitation or am I just not finding what firmware I need to upgrade them to, in order to allow the creation of community VLANs? We have these aggregation switches conncted directly to multiple types of firewalls which take care of each of our clients networks including internet access etc. We are wasting many VLANs and IP addresses with our current setup so I am hoping to move over to using private VLANs. The setup of the private VLANs looks simple enough.
2.)When the private VLAN's try to communicate, all info will be sent directly to the layer 3 device I gather, which will not need to know anything about the private VLANs?
I am aware that private-vlans are not supported on edge switches like 2960 series - so my question is would it be possibel to ceate private vlans on say just the core switch which would be a 3570 or 4506 that supports private vlans and then just trunk these to the edge like normal vlans?
what I need to achive is to have edge port not able to communicate to each other even across switches - which cannot be done using 'protected' port so need the private vlan feature
I have the need for private vlans in isolated mode to backup some hosts on a secured network. We are using Cisco Nexus 5020 with the fex 2148 for copper-ports - and I tried to implement this setup: [code]
The Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender does not support PVLANs over VLAN trunks used to connect to another switch. The PVLAN trunks are only used on inter-switch links but the FEX ports are only meant to connect to servers. Since it is not a valid configuration to have an isolated secondary VLAN as part of a Fabric Extender port configured as a VLAN trunk, all frames on isolated secondary VLANs are pruned from going out to a FEX.
the "only" limitation should be the trunk option - but as far as I can see from the output from my nexus this is not correct .We are running NXOS: [code]
I have defined a trunk between a nexus 5k and cat 3750 as a pvlan trunk - now I would like to add redundance and performance and tried to establish a vpc between my par of nexus's and the 3750 stack - but the nexus tell me that the port-channel doesn't support pvlan's - and then - ehh - do I get any benefits of running the trunk as a pvlan trunk at all?
I'm not sure if I'm missing something basic here however i though that I'd ask the question. I recieved a request from a client who is trying to seperate traffic out of a IBM P780 - one set of VIO servers/clients (Prod) is tagged with vlan x going out LAG 1 and another set of VIO server/clients (Test) is tagged with vlan y and z going out LAG 2. The problem is that the management subnet for these devices is on one subnet.
The infrastructure is the host device is trunked via LACP etherchannel to Nexus 2148TP(5010) which than connects to the distribution layer being a Catalyst 6504 VSS. I have tried many things today, however I feel that the correct solution to get this working is to use an Isolated trunk (as the host device does not have private vlan functionality) even though there is no requirement for hosts to be segregated. I have configured:
1. Private vlan mapping on the SVI; 2. Primary vlan and association, and isolated vlan on Distribution (6504 VSS) and Access Layer (5010/2148) 3. All Vlans are trunked between switches 4. Private vlan isolated trunk and host mappings on the port-channel interface to the host (P780).
I haven't had any luck. What I am seeing is as soon as I configure the Primary vlan on the Nexus 5010 (v5.2) (vlan y | private-vlan primary), this vlan (y) does not forward on any trunk on the Nexus 5010 switch, even without any other private vlan configuration. I believe this may be the cause to most of the issues I am having. Has any one else experienced this behaviour. Also, I haven't had a lot of experience with Private Vlans so I might be missing some fundamentals with this configuration.
just a simple question. Is it possible to use a nexus 5548 UP switch as a layer 3 router between different vlans on the switch without the layer 3 card ? Or is there no 5548 as a router with the layer 3 card ?
I am at a client that I upgrade from running a single 4507 to two Nexus 5548UP switches with two Nexus 2224 fex's connected. The other access layer switches are 2960S switches. I implemented hsrp on the nexus 5k's for redudancy. The issue they are having is that some networks cannot communicate with each other. All user vlans can communicate with the server vlan, but it is not running hsrp on the vlan interface (there is a reason for that, but it not relavent for this issue). The phone vlan, which is running hsrp, can communicate with all networks.
When I am connected to either 5k, they can communicate with all devices on all networks. However, I am on vlan 10, which is a user vlan. I can communicate fine with the server vlan (vlan 101 - not running hsrp) and the phone vlan (vlan 60 - running hsrp). I cannot communicate with vlan 30 or 40, which are both running hsrp. This makes absolutely no sense at all to me. I checked out trunk ports to be sure that vlans are allowed across the networks as well. There are no firewalls between the vlans or ACL's.
I am a bit confused by the output of 'show run' and 'show run switch-profile' that pertains to a port-channel interface configured in a switch-profile. My main gaol is to find out how can I add/remove the allowed vlans the port-channel (configured as trunk) carries. The setup is like this. I have 2 N5k in vPC domain and Etherner1/11 on both switches is configured as trunk vPC that connects to a core switch. When I issue ‘show run’ for the port-channel and physical interface I get the following output. [code] From above it seems the switch-profile configuration is missing the 'switchport trunk allowed vlan' in the port-channel interface. If want I to remove vlan 30 from the allowed vlan, should I go under the switch-profile mode and remove vlan 30 from the allowed list even though the switch-profile configuration seems to be missing this.
our pair of Nexus 7000 are configured with RSTP.On the Edge-Switches we have seen an STP topology change in all connected vlans.On N7k the topology has also changed what we`ve only seen in the output of the stp details [code]
I like to configure a logging for topology changes, but i havn't found a command.
Is there an opportunity to get this logging-messages on n7k?
I'm running a couple of nexus 7000 to aggregate a building full of 3750Xs.In the past few weeks I have noticed that the vlans I added to the port-profile never got propagated.So I looked at port-profile sync information and here is what comes up: [code] Why the commands are getting cached?
I want to apply QoS policy on a particular VM for specified port range only. I have created following script file but that doesnt work. I mean it doesnt apply any policy on vm residing on Veth1.
config t ip access-list acl_in 101 deny tcp any any eq 443 exit
how do i set limit on the log file size in ACS 5.3. I had the same issue with Nexus 1000v but there is a command that enables you to set log file nane and size. it is getting bulky.
I want to configure snmp-traps regarding stpx (root-inconsistency, loop-inconsistency) on a Cisco Nexus 1000V. The command "show snmp traps" lists stpx as a trap that could be configured and which is not at the moment.
Nexus1000V and I was wondering if there is a way to limit snmp access via access-list on the RO/RW community, as can be done on IOS. I can't find anything relevent on the Reference Pages
have a single host that refuses to register his VEM in VSM, I can see him in show svs neighbors and all other servers went in although a couple of them we had to do more than once but I have all indications it is working, have correct license, sees him, pings him, everything looks fine but from timeto time just get the message:
N1KVSM-B# 2012 Feb 10 15:45:32 N1KVSM-B %VMS-5-DVS_HOSTMEMBER_INFO: A host with name=[ky-dc1-esxi13.cajones.local] and uuid=[00000000-0000-0000-8000-0025b5010019] is added to the dvs. The host is not found as a module in the VSM configuration
So I even added him to the VSM configuration statically as VEM 7 the next available and nothing.
According to the note at the bottom of a VMware KB Article "Cisco Nexus 1000V and VMware vCloud Director 1.5,"
"Note: You are must use the Cisco Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC) virtual appliance from Cisco. This is a separate products and needs to be licensed from Cisco."
Is this actually the case? I know you could use portgroup based network pools with vCD 1.0 and 1kv. Can I use the 1kv with VLAN-backed network pools in vCD 1.5 without the Virtual Network Management Center or is it required?
how to add tacacs custom attribute to ACS 4.2 for Nexus 1000V:shell:roles="network-admin admin-vdc"In the interface configuration I've added new service, service - shell, protocol - tacacs+.In the group settings I've enabled this attribute configuration. And it is not works. Default privilege level is assigned to any user with access allowed.
We are trying to install the latest version of Nexus 1000v to ESXi5.1 and the installer application is much better than the previos one, but we are having problems with implemetation, because deploying of OVA file times out.
First attempt: Nexus-1 was successfully deployed on ESXi-1, but Nexus-2 which should be deployed on ESXi-2 returned an error: "Deploy OVF template":"Operation timed out." Second attempt: Deploying of Nexus-1 returned the same error Third attempt: The same as the first attempt.
It looks like that there is a time limit which is used for deploying OVA file and since file needs to be uploaded to ESXi it takes too long, so the installation fails. Is it possible to extend this time?
I'm trying to configure VXLAN on 1000v but it not working between two esx.
As I followed the troubleshooting guide on Cisco's website I discovered the following error: Can't get uplink MTU: 4681 Here is the output of the "vemcmd show vxlan-stats ltl 50" command. Port LTL 50 is the VM's port.
vemcmd show vxlan-stats ltl 50 VXLAN Port Stats for LTL 50 Unicast Encapsulations: 0
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I've set mtu to 9000 on the UPLINK profile (port-profile) and enabled jumbo frames support on the upstream switch.
I'm looking to update our office network and replace our old wireless box.I've been looking at the RV110w after a google search and need to find out some things before suggesting anything.
Currently our network is running a public IP address for each piece of equipment which we'd like to keep, mainly for ease. We have a wireless access point running in invisible mode for wireless client access to the entire network, and also a Netscreen firewall.
What I'd like to do is the following: 1. Keep public ip addresses for wired clients, complete with existing network/local server access/RDP. 2. Set up two VLans on private ip addresses - one to have full access as per the wired clients and the other only for guest Internet access.
Is this something the RV110w is able to do? If so how would I go about setting it up?
How to setup 3 SG300-52 (in L2 mode) as per this diagram:Port 1 on all switches should be able to talk to each other and access the blob at the right.The ports 25 on the other hand should only be able to talk among themselves in their own private vlan. They are to carry sensitive traffic. So I created 3 vlans, vlan 78 for ports gi1, gi51 and vlan 10 for port25,49,50 and a dummy vlan: 666 with the intent of segratating vlan 10 from vlan 78. My attempts so far have failed. ports gi49-50 are configured as trunk ports and gi1,gi51 as access ports as the following cli output (excerpts of the startup config):
Ports gi1 can talk to each other and access the blob but ports 25 refuse to talk to each other. But as soon as I remove the access links to the blob they can! Obviously, at that point port gi1 lose access.Is such a topology feasable or even advisable?
I live in a two family residential house and we share a common fibre connection to the internet. In the basement we have a modem/router(zyxel) which is in "bridge mode". Therefore not acting as DHCP. Behind this zyxel we have a Cisco RVS4000 router. Ports 1 and 2 go to family A, and Ports 3 and 4 go to family B. Family A and B have separate routers which are both set to "access point mode". Family A has an ASUS RT-N66U router while family B has a dlink DIR-615. The asus has an "access point mode" while the dlink needs to be set up manually to achieve this. The dlink must also have a static IP adress. The asus can receive ip adress.
What I have unsuccessfully tried to achieve and am currently trying to separate the networks so that both families can access internett, but at the same time it must be impossible to access VLAN1(Family A) from VLAN2(Family B) vice versa. Meaning no communication between the two families through the local network.
I have tried different options but I am not sure how to deal with trunk, tagged, untagged etc. etc. etc. It seems every time I manage to create two different networks there is still accessability/communication between the two VLANs and everytime I manage to give out different IP adresses to different ports i.e. 192.168.10.xx and 192.168.2.xx it is still possible to communicate. What also usually happens is that the internetconnection is severed at the same time.
We are facing issue of continous packet discards On nexus4001L link (int po2) to Nexus5020 switch. Nexus4001L is installed in IBM blade center server and we have FCOE enabled in this setup. [code]
