I kind of understand the pain that each network admin has when changing the platform, especially if you haven’t had enough time to get experience on the new system prior to production. This article is meant to help the Cisco Catalyst admins to get some hold of Nexus 5000 series switch. Don’t expect this to […]
Month: January 2012
Sup2T CMP Console Access
Because I always forget how to access the CMP console of Cat6500 Sup2T, here it is: To access the CMP with the console port, type Ctrl-C, Shift-M, Ctrl-C, Shift-M, Ctrl-C, Shift-M To return to the supervisor console, type Ctrl-R, Shift-M, Ctrl-R, Shift-M, Ctrl-R, Shift-M I thought I wouldn’t need this very often but things don’t […]
Dual-homed FEXes and Switch Profiles
Using dual-homed FEXes with Cisco Nexus 5000 switches presents some new issues for the network admins. One important feature is that the FEX port configuration needs to exist on the both N5ks. Let’s see the topology example where the FEX is connected to the switches with vPC (= dual-homed FEX): The server is connected to […]