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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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Upgrading the Nexus 1000v to SV1(3)

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Upgrading the Nexus 1000v to SV1(3) I performed my first Nexus 1000v upgrade last week, upgrading from SV1(2) to SV1(3). It was relatively painless, but definitely worth reading about what is involved. Read on… Prerequisites: download Nexus 1000v 4.0(4)SV1(3) software save the config (copy run start) back up the config clone primary VSM virtual machine Upgrade the VSMs Do this on the primary VSM (it will automatically be synced to standby): Copy bin files to primary…

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