Cisco Switching/Routing :: Twinax For VPC Peer Link On Nexus 7000
May 5, 2013Can you use twinax cables to connect two Nexus 7010 switches for VPC peer link? They would connect on F2 modules and have Sup2 on the chassis.
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Cisco Switching/Routing :: VPC Peer-link Between Nexus 5010 And 5020
Aug 7, 2012I'm trying to create a vpc between a Nexus 5010 and Nexus 5020 switch. I recently upgraded the software so they are running the same version. I connect get a vpc link. Is there something wrong with my setup? Is a vpc between a 5010 and 5020 even possible? They are connected using a pair of Intel X520's in 802.3AD teaming mode. [code]
View 2 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5548UP Change Peer Keep Alive Link
Apr 19, 2013I have a pair of Nexus 5548UPs that have some high priority servers running on them. Servers are ESX hosts running Nexus 1000v's. Each host has multple connections in a VPC to both 5548s. We have been having intermittant ping loss and slowness of traffic to the VM's on these hosts. I was poking around trying to figure out what the issue could be and found that the peer-keepalive command was not set to send the heart beat across the mgmt0 interface. I would like to change this to point it accross the mgmt0 interface. Any tips or advice for me on making this change with production servers running on the switches? I do not want to cause any loss to any systems when I make this change. [Code] ..........
View 3 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5ks Connected To 6513s - Peer Link Active?
Mar 13, 2013 how the Nexus 5500s work ?currently we have two 6513 Core switches 6513-1 and 6513-2 running HSRP and RSTP. 6513-1 is currently the Root Bridge, 6513-2 is setup as our secondary root. We also have two 5548UPs setup with a peerlink between them. Picture attached. "Current Setup.jpg"
There is a 20gig port channel between the 6513s and also a 20gig port channel(peer link) between the 5548s. 5548-1 has a 10g fiber running back to 6513-1 and 5548-2 has a 10g fiber running back to 6513-2. Currently now Spanning tree is blocking the link from 6513-2 going to 5548-2 which is what we expect. We were working on moving some things to different racks the other day and moved switch 5548-2 to another rack and brought it back online without the peerlink fiber connected. We started to have issues and tried to plug the peer link back up, but still continued to have issues. We started to troubleshoot and noticed that both 5548s were acting like the master of the VPC domain and was not letting traffic pass accross the Peer Link. We then rebooted the 5548-2 with the thought that it would come back up as the secondary in the VPC domain. When it finally finished booting back up it then caused a huge loop in our network accross both uplinks to the 6513s and the 5548s peer link which in turn took our network down. Spanning tree did not work like it was suppose to and block the port going from 6513-2 to 5548-2 in time.
My thought was this didn't seem like a good setup. I went to the drawing board and decided we needed to have an uplink from both 5548-1 and 5548-2 going to 6513-1 setup as a port channel/VPC and also a uplink from 5548-1 and 5548-2 going to 6513-2 setup as a port channel/VPC. Picture Attached. "NewSetup.jpg" We are also planning on buying a "2K-C2224TP-1GE" to hang off the 5548s to use for ethernet.
how the Nexus 5ks work and haven't done a lot of research on them. Would this not be a better setup since both switches will have an active link to the root bridge? The links from the 5548s going to 6513-2 should always be in a block state until we loose both uplinks to 6513-1 or the entire switch itself correct? Also how will the 5548s reactive if I was to loose the Peer link fiber? Will they continue to work as normal? When it looses this Peer Link does it suspend all the VPCs for the servers on the secondary switch in the Domain so the network doesn't get confused on which link to send traffic up since there isn't a peer link active or is this not the case? Also with the peer link down will the 6513-1 know which 5548 to send the traffic to if there is only 1 device (not setup in a VPC) on one of the 5548s? What are your recommendations/best practice on the setup for the 2k?
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5020 Support Of HP Passive Twinax Cable?
Mar 3, 2013I have a customer who is having some issues with 5m passive HP twinax cables, 537965-001, with a Chelsio 10G NIC. Aside from NIC driver issue, if NX-OS recognizes this SFP+, should it be expected to work in a 5020 running 4.2(1)N1(1)? Whether Cisco has certified passive HP twinax cables? I have included output to 'transceiver details' to a Cisco twinax and the HP (WL GORE) cables.
Nexus5020# show interface eth 1/7 transceiver details
Ethernet1/7
sfp is present
name is CISCO-MOLEX
type is SFP-H10GB-CU3M
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Cisco Switching/Routing :: Connect ASA 5550 To Nexus 7K F2 Module Using Twinax Cable?
Mar 24, 2012can we connect ASA 5550 to Nexus 7K F2 module using twinax cable?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Keep Alive Link For Vpc?
May 5, 2013We setup two n7K as core switches in our network. We configure VPc peer link as well successfully. We are using mgmt interface of supervisors as a peer keep alive interface, so what happen when this keep alive gets down? Are we loss Vpc peer link between both nexus 7 K?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 With Fabric Extenders Nexus 2000?
Mar 15, 2013I have been tasked to replace the existing Cat 6500 and 3750 switches by Nexus 7000 and Nexus 2000.I was told initially my boss plans to get 2 x Nexus 7000 and then eventually blow up to 4 x Nexus 7000s.For Nexus, is there a list of tasks / points that i need to consider for building the initial design?
Can i just link the Nexus 7000 like the following?
N7k-A ========= N7k-B
| |
lots of N2ks lots of N2ks
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5k Switch-Profile Peer Connectivity
Jan 2, 2013We recently had a pair of Nexus 5k switches setup in our network. We had professional services handle the initial configuration but they weren't able to setup config sync for us. Each Fex is connected to each 5k, so we need a switch-profile to maintain a consistent setup on our interfaces. I went through the process in Configuring Switch-Profiles, but when I check the status of the peer, it says not reachable. [code]
View 1 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5k Peer-gateway In VPC Config With HSRP
Apr 18, 2012we are planing to run HSRP on our Nexus 5ks (with L3 card) and we use VPC to connect the downstream UCS - Fabric Interconnects to the 5ks. I was wondering if the peer-gateway command is required under the vpc domain config? When you use HSRP with VPC, both the active and standby HSRP peers can forward layer3 traffic, isn`t that the same that peer-gateway would achieve?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7010 / 5510 - Run OSPF As Layer 3 Routing Protocol Between VPC Peer Links
Mar 25, 2012I have an environment where i have two nexus 7010 switches, along with 2 nexus 5510's. I need to run OSPF as a layer 3 routing protocol between the vpc peer links. I have 1 link being used as a keep alive link, and 3 other links being used as a VpC link.
1) Is it best to configure a separate Vpc VLAN i.e 1010
2) Is it best to configure a vrf context keep-alive
3) just have the management address as the peer ip's.
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5596 - Are VPC Peer Links Locally Significant
Mar 17, 2013I currently have Nexus 5596 pair with VPC peer link Po1 between them. My goal is to connect our new Nexus 7Ks to the 5K's using Fabric Path. My question is during this inital setup with the 7K's. Can I use the same port channel number on the 7K's as I did the 5K's? Is the port channel locally significat?
View 2 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 5000 - Get Peer Links To Work And Have Them In Interfaces E1 / 1-4
Apr 26, 2012Trying to get the peer links to work and have them in interfaces E1/1-4 . When i do a show int status it looks like this and says sfp invalid. I see this on both sides. These same model gbics work fine attached to a FEX on these boxes.
Eth1/1 vpc peer link to T sfpInvali trunk full 10G Fabric Exte
Eth1/2 vpc peer link to T sfpInvali trunk full 10G Fabric Exte
Eth1/3 vpc peer link to T sfpInvali trunk full 10G Fabric Exte
Eth1/4 vpc peer link to T sfpInvali trunk full 10G Fabric Exte
Gbic in ports are this.
Ethernet1/1-4
transceiver is present
type is Fabric Extender Transceiver
name is CISCO-FINISAR
part number is FTLX8570D3BCL-C1
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Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Vrf Not Enabled?
Dec 9, 2012Should I install any special license to enable vrf within Nexus 7000 VDC? I observed that vrf routing instance is not enabled in the VDC.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: NTP Authentication On Nexus 7000?
Mar 3, 2013I am configuring NTP on a new Cisco Nexus 7000 running version 6.1(2). NTP is working properly between the access switches and Nexus, however when configuring Authentication, NTP is not working anymore.
confguration:
Nexus 7K server
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ntp server x.x.x.x
ntp peer q.q.q.q
ntp server e.e.e.e
ntp server r.r.r.r
ntp source-interface Vlanx
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why NTP authentication is not working !!!!! on Nexus 7000
Cisco Switching/Routing :: FIB Inconsistency On Nexus 7000
Aug 3, 2011On a 7K (5.0(2)), I have a situation where the FIB and RIB are out of sync. I'm not sure it's causing a problem, but it's been implicated in some weird packet loss issues. It seems like it could cause network issues if you had two routes in the RIB, only one in the FIB, and then you lost the single path in the FIB. How the RIB/FIB gets out of sequence, how to proactively know about it (nothing in the logs here), and whether or not this is a big deal or a red herring?
Here's sample output that illustrates the RIB and FIB being out of sequence.
ROUTER1# show ip route 172.16.100.1
IP Route Table for VRF "default"
'*' denotes best ucast next-hop
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Cisco Switching/Routing :: Support For FeX 2232TM In Nexus 7000?
Feb 2, 2012We recently purchased a pair of 2232TM Fabric eXtenders just to find out that our Nexus 7000 does not support it. Will there be support for the 2232TM FeX in Nexus 7000 any time soon?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 OTV With F1 Line Cards?
Jul 17, 2012I have two data centres connected via a L2 DWDM, my manager wants to look into using OTV to get rid of the layer 2 broadcasting issues.
Problem is the DWDM is 1000BaseSX, which is only supported on the N7K-F132XP-15. (and the N7K-M148GS-11 but that doesn't support FCOE, so many bloody caveats). From what I can gather OTV is not supported on the N7K-F132XP-15.
Is it possible to terminate the DWDM on the F1 card & loop another port from the F1 to a port on the N7K-M148GT-11 & run OTV on the M1????
Either using VDCs or just an isolated VLAN on the F1. Is there any better way to do this? Hardware has not yet been purchased.
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Vdc Vlan Configuration?
Dec 9, 2012I am seeing an issue that after deleting/recreating one of the VDC in Nexus 7K, VLAN is not been able to be configured within the VDC although it is not actually a reserved VLAN. Could it be anything missing in the license installation? the version of the image is NX-OS 6.1.2
StorageVDC(config)# vlan 100
^
invalid vlans (reserved values) at '^' marker.
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 QoS Marking For Both DSCP And COS
Jan 29, 2012I have a pair of Nexus 7K's running 5.1(3). I have a handful of edge devices that I need to mark ingress traffic, and need to mark both DSCP and CoS. Right now, I have a working config that marks DSCP appropriately.While that works dor DSCP, the MQC will not allow me to mark both DSCP and COS in the same class, and unlike IOS, it appears that Nexus does not have a default DSCP-to-COS mapping. My understanding is this can be solved using table maps, but I don't see how that can solve my problem in this specific scenario (it appears I can do marking or table-map mutation, but not both?). How I can accomplish both?
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Dec 5, 2011I cannot get the AAA tacacs+ authentication to work on my Nexus 7000.
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Nov 2, 2012I need to know how is the ambient temperature for the Nexus 7000 switches to plan a new datacenter. In the datasheet I found the following information regarding this topic:"GR-63-CORE Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS) specification published by Telcordia Technologies in Section 4.1.2". How are the specification for temperature in this standard?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: QOS For VOIP Traffic On Nexus 7000
Mar 4, 2012regarding QOS on Nexus 7000. Our Nexus 7000's form a collapsed distribution/core layer, our access layer switches are are a mixture of Cisco 3750 & Cisco 4507. 3750 switches will connect to Nexus switches via 1Gb uplink, 4507 switches will connect via 10Gb uplinks. Each Nexus will be connected via 20Gb port channel, all servers connect to the Nexus switches via 1Gb links. We're implementing a new telephone system soon which will be using VOIP so I need to configure the switches to perform QOS. The IP phones will mark the RTP traffic with DSCP value EF and call signaling traffic CS3. I'm fine configuring qos on the access layer switches, its just the Nexus switches which I'm not sure about.
Do I actually need to configure any QOS parameters on the Nexus switches so they will prioritise the VOIP traffic. If my understanding the Nexus switches will trust the DSCP values and assign the traffic to the relevent queues?
Just for information VOIP is the only traffic I will be marking QOS values
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Bandwidth Control
Oct 14, 2012On Nexus 7000s I want to limit bandwidth of particular IP. I can do this using proper configuratio of IP ACL, policy map and class map. But what if I dont have information on interface? Can I apply bandwidth control for particular IP without knowing the interface?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 And 2000 FEX Support With VPC
Apr 20, 2012if vPC is supported between a single 2232PP FEX and two 7000 switches running 6.0(1)? I have been researching this for an implementation I am doing for a client and was able to determine it was not supported with earlier versions of 5.0 when the FEX is connected via vPC as I described above, but I can't find anything related to version 6.0(1). I have done this for other clients with 5000 and 2000 switches, but I don't have too much experience with 7000 switches.
View 5 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Log Entry Explanation?
Dec 4, 2011I have some error messages in the Nexus 7000 log, after searching i cannot find an adequate explanation, pretty much the only thing i can find is below and i don’t think it is very relevant to my situation. The device is in production and so reloading and pulling card willy nilly is the last resort.
Device = Nexus 7018
IOS version = 5.1(2)
Log messages=
2011 Dec 2 14:52:35 IAS01LVSWIPC01 %OC_USD-SLOT8-2-RF_CRC: OC2 received packets with CRC error from MOD 6 through XBAR slot 1/inst 1 and slot 2/inst 1 and slot 3/inst 1
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Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 / Configuring Jumbo MTU?
Nov 17, 2011I have a Nexus 7000 plus 6 boxes NX2000 on backbone.I have configured on 7000 :
conf t
system jumbomtu 9000
exitERROR: Ethernet111/1/1: requested config change not allowed
...
ERROR: Ethernet122/1/48: requested config change not allowed
1/111/14 is a NX2000 port conf tinterface ethernet 1/111/14 switchport mtu 9000 exit
I have gotten this message : Error: MTU cannot be configured on satellite port(s) - Eth122/1/11 ?I have tried on a NX7000 TP port:ERROR: Ethernet10/45: MTU on L2 interfaces can only be set to default or system-jumboMTU ?Does JUMBOMTU configuration can be done only when there are no NX2000 configured ?
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Span Limitation
Apr 18, 2012I've learned recently that the Nexus 7000 only allows the configuration of a maximum of 2 Monitor sessions for spanning traffic. I only have one monitor session left and I need to do the following. 2 Core Nexus 7000 boxes with 2 different traffic probes/sniffers to each nexus( eg Sniffer 1 connects to Switch A on interface eth 1 and to Switch B on eth 1 ; Sniffer 2 connects to Switch A on eth 2 and to Switch B on eth 2.) My plan was to setup a standard session with multiple sources and destinations then on the interfaces connecting to the sniffers run a trunk and do 'sw trunk allowed xxxxx' and filter what I need to go to each sniffer box. However I've recently found out that some of my source traffic is coming from Port-Channel interfaces. Is there a way I can get around this and still do the filtering within only 1 monitor session ?
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Jan 30, 2011I'm interested to know whether we can configure ip helper in nexus 7000?
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Jun 26, 2012Are there any dependencies on VTP on the Nexus platforms like the 5500 or 7000? In IOS P V LAN required VTP Transparent mode however I cannot find any reference to this for the Nexus platform. Are there any other features that would require the use of VTP? By default VTP is turned off on nexus and has to be enabled with the feature command so is there any benefit to running VTP in transparent mode vs off?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCisco Switching/Routing :: Dedicated Mode On Nexus 7000?
Feb 22, 2012i like to configure two ports in dedicated mode (eth4/1 + eth4/2).the ports are on a modultype "N7K-F132XP-15" (32x10GE)all ports are in one vdc membership (default configuration)
ive tried this for port eth 4/1:
bciscon7k01(config)# int eth 4/1,eth 4/3,eth 4/5,eth 4/7
bciscon7k01(config-if-range)# shut
bciscon7k01(config-if-range)# int eth 4/1
bciscon7k01(config-if)# rate-mode dedicated
after that i get the following message:"Ignoring command for interface Ethernet4/1 as rate-mode is fixed." i didn't find any documentation to this error message.whats wrong in my configuration?
Cisco Switching/Routing :: Nexus 7000 Errors Every 30 Seconds
Feb 3, 2013I have a Nexus 7000 pair with Etherchannels connecting to various access switches. 2960's and 3750's.The access switches channel 2 ports together. LACP active mode. One link goes to one Nexus and one to the other. Those connections are a portchannel with vpc configured.Every 30 seconds on every interface connecting to one Nexus I see a FCS error. The errors increment at the same time every 30 seconds. Only on one port. If I shutdown that link and keep the channel up on the other link the errors move. No shut the interface and they move back.This must surely be some Nexus generated packet that the access switch does not recognize/ what is likely to be getting sent at 30 sec intervals to all Channel members on one link ?
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Jan 13, 2013If the latest release of NX-OS 6.1.2 supports dual homing a Nexus 2000 to a pair of Nexus 7000s (F2 Module)? The document does state something about support for vPC+ but is not really clear about it.
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