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Cisco Nexus 1000v In Less Than 10 Minutes

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original Post #  http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/standing-up-the-cisco-nexus-1000v-in-less-than-10-minutes.html A few weeks ago at geek week, I was assigned the task of getting the Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed virtual switch set up. I probably spent a good 4 hours on my first cluster because I had no clue what was going on and I ended up losing my management network and spent lots of time restoring my network to the original vSwitch. I followed TrainSignal’s 1000v Installation training in Pro…

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Cisco Nexus 1000v switch – Part 1

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This 3 part tutorial guide will show you how to install the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch. I’m will be using this image for the install – Nexus1000v.4.2.1.SV1.4.zip which can be downloaded from the Cisco website. The lab setup is as follows: 1 x ESX 4.1, 1 x ESXi 4.1, vCenter Server and Domain Controller. This Cisco Nexus 1000v requires 3 mandatory virtual machine port groups to be setup in vCenter before installing. Control, Packet and…

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Cisco Nexus 1000v Switch Part 2

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  Cisco Nexus 1000v Switch Part 2 1. Now that you have your Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual machine installed, go ahead and power it up. Once it’s powered up, from your management station, open your web browser and browse to the management ip address of your Nexus 1000v that you set in part 1. 2. Click on Launch Installer Application. As a side note, this management station must have Java installed to run the application…

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Cisco Nexus 1000v installation – Part 3

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This is part 3 of the Cisco Nexus 1000v installation tutorials.  1. Let’s log into the Nexus 1000v console and type show module. Here you can see that the Virtual Supervisor Module is active and that the ip address is 192.168.1.80. 2. The first thing we need to do is configure our vlans. 3. Now we need to create a port-profile. This port profile is of type ethernet which means that it is assigned to…

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Cisco Jabber SRND – Notes

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Jabber Desktop Clients – Call Control Cisco Jabber Desktop Clients can operate in one of two modes for call control: Softphone Mode — Using audio and video on a computer When a Jabber Desktop Client is in softphone mode, it is directly registered to Unified CM as a SIP endpoint for audio and video call control functionality, and it is configured on Unified CM as device type Client Services Framework. Deskphone Control Mode — Using…

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Cisco Presence SRND 9 – Notes

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1. The SIP connection between the Cisco IM and Presence Service and Unified CM handles all the phone state presence information exchange. a. Unified CM configuration requires the Cisco IM and Presence Services to be added as application servers on Unified CM and also requires a SIP trunk pointing to the Cisco IM and Presence Service. The address configured on the SIP trunk could be a Domain Name System (DNS) server (SRV) fully qualified domain…

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Distributing Cisco Phone Firmware Options [ Peer File Sharing ]

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  Every once in a while I get asked if there is a better way to distribute firmware to phones across the WAN. The obvious driver is the general performance (or lack thereof) for the standard TFTP approach when handling a large number of requests. This is one of those questions that usually comes up the day before a mass firmware upgrade and then goes to the back burner, only to come up again during the next…

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A correct way to shutdown Cisco Autonomous AP

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An interesting fact – powered over Ethernet autonomous Cisco access point continue to associate clients even if you shutdown the relevant switch port! I recently shutdown the switch port to which a spare access point has been connected, assuming it will stop providing PoE. Few days later my friend’s IT specialist reported their customers have connectivity problems when they approach that particular access point. He also asked if the blue light reflects a working condition. That…

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Configuring Cisco Nexus 5500 series switches with Dual-Homed FEXes

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More and more Enterprises come to a decision to deploy Cisco Nexus switches in their corporate data centers. One of the main design considerations relates to Cisco 2200 Fabric Extenders (FEX) connectivity topology. To provide high availability Cisco Nexus 5500 series switches support different options to connect FEXes (all are based on a Virtual Port Channel feature): Straight-Through, where every FEX is connected to a single N5K (Active/Active and Active/Passive servers); Dual-Homed, where each FEX…

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Understanding Cisco Auto Archive Feature to Backup Configuration File

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Understanding Cisco Auto Archive Feature to Backup Configuration File Posted by Elvin Arias on Oct 30, 2013 10:16:18 AM One of the most important tasks of a network administrator is to backup the network configuration files of every Cisco device periodically. This periodicity is dictated and established by the organization policies. Frequency could be every week, every fifteen days or every month depending on the needs of the organization. The importance of the configuration files…

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