Nexus 7000 Training Documentation
A few weeks ago the company that I work for received our Nexus 7000 (7010 to be exact) switches. Since my team was not familiar with these switches, I decided to write some quick training docs and...
View ArticleThe week after the installation. . .
Ok, the Nexus switches have been installed and running for over a week now with no further problems and there has been no fallout that I need to address prior to this post. Everyone at work took the...
View ArticleLACP Configuration and multi-chassis Etherchannel on Nexus 7000 with vPC,...
The other day I received a question on Ether-channel and the Nexus 7000 - based on the question I felt it would be also good to include the information here. This will be a 2-part post, first part is...
View ArticleLACP Configuration and multi-chassis Etherchannel on Nexus 7000 with vPC,...
This is the second part in a two part post on Etherchannel on the Nexus 7000. In the first part I covered how to configure vPC on the Nexus 7000, here I will cover what it takes to get a remote switch...
View ArticleStatic ARP entries on NX-OS
Oh the joys of Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB). One of the wonderful ways that it is usually configured is using a Multicast MAC address utilizing a Unicast IP address. Needless to say, most...
View ArticleNexus 7000 and the Show Tech command (gzip too)
Recently I have experience some interesting first-level support from our Cisco VAR. They are not too familiar with the Nexus 7000 and insisted on us sending them a SHOW TECH from the switch. If you...
View ArticleNexus 7009
Well, today we can welcome the Cisco Nexus 7009 to the Nexus family. It joins its big brothers the 7010 and 7018 as you can see below. So, what does this new chassis give us over its bigger brothers?...
View ArticleThe Nexus 7009 – and what is this, Nexus 7006?!??!?!?!
Since Cisco posted that picture the other day, you know this one: Well, since that picture was posted there has been some buzz around the chassis in the twitter feeds. Not much is officially know...
View ArticleNexus 7009 – More information
A few months ago I did a quick post on the Nexus 7009 when it was pseudo announced (here ). When I was attending Cisco Live 2011 last week in Las Vegas I found out that they had a Nexus 7009 in...
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