A few days ago I wrote an article about How to speed up vMotion? In this article, I mentioned that one of the way to improve performance of vMotion is configuring Multi-NIC vMotion. Just for a quick reminder on Multi-NIC vMotion: Multi-NIC vMotion was introduced in vSphere 5.0 This feature provides load balancing the vMotion… Read More: How to configure Multi-NIC vMotion with Cisco Nexus 1000v? »
Recently I have been done a migration from vSS to the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch. My customer wanted to reconfigure network (uplinks) because some of ESXi uplinks had been configured as active-standby in VSS because there were uplinks connected to the upstream switches (two old catalyst separate switches, no stackable) not supported multi-chassis Etherchannel (MEC). The… Read More: What is vPC Host Mode Pinning for Nexus 1000v? »
In this article I will show how to deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v on vSphere 5.5. To deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v, please follow steps: Download Cisco Nexus 1000v from cisco.com From the vSphere Client, choose File > Deploy OVF Template or if you use Web Client, right click on Cluster and select Deploy OVF Template In the… Read More: How to deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v on vSphere 5? »