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Routing table on switch N7K-1: n7k-1(config-if-range)# sh ip routeġ72.30.96.0/24, ubest/mbest: 1/0, attached
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Notice that the MAC address (46d) of mgmt0 is (of course) the same as the MAC address on ESXi:Īfter adding IP addresses to the e2/1 and e2/2 interfaces and configuring a routing protocol (OSPF for example), you can even test routes between the Nexus routers. Reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255ġ minute input rate 5456 bits/sec, 3 packets/secġ minute output rate 24 bits/sec, 0 packets/secģ5644 input packets 336 unicast packets 23179 multicast packetsģ60 output packets 219 unicast packets 139 multicast packets Hardware: Ethernet, address: 46d (bia 46d) n7k-1# conf tĮnter configuration commands, one per line. After this you can set an IP address on the ‘mgmt 0’ interface to access the switch through SSH.
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VSwitch1 is deployed to interconnect N7K-1 and N7K2.Īfter booting the switches you first have to access the switch through the serial port. Nexus N7K-2 is also connected to this segment: Network Adapter 3 (e2/2) is connected to the 172.30.96.0 segment, which is actually a Virtual Machine portgroup name on the ESXi host.
The configuration of the Titanium virtual machine should look like this:įor the N7K-1 switch (displayed in the image) add (for example) 7 adapters to the switch and a serial port: This article explains how you can access the Nexus serial port through a telnet connection. Also remove the serial port (if available) and add a new serial port to your virtual Nexus switch. The default NICs in the emulator won’t work with ESXi, so remove them and add E1000 adapters. After registering the virtual machine it becomes available in your vSphere inventory. The Titanium emulator comes as a set of files which can be uploaded to a VMFS/NFS datastore on an ESXi host.
For the SSH connection Nexus port “mgmt 0” is configured and connected to the management LAN. The serial port is connected to the management LAN using the serial-port-to-network feature of ESXi.
The lab which is discussed in this article runs on vSphere/ESXi and is built according to the following design:
You can use the Titanium emulator for this setup, which has been leaked to the internet. The goal is to create a lab containing two or more virtual Cisco Nexus switches, which can be used to learn/test NX-OS.
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Today a blog post on something I hope you will find useful: How to build a virtual Cisco Nexus lab on VMware vSphere.