I am going to use the vSphere thick client for the various ESXi operations, this is very naughty as we have been told many times by VMWare that this will be removed in a future release and many new features have not been implemented in the thick client. The OVA option is the simplest so that is what this post will be based upon. There are two options for ESXi, an OVA and a VMDK. You need a Cisco login to access the download however there are no additional entitlements required. Though the setup process was fairly straight forward there were a few gotchas so this post will detail the process I used to deploy the NX-OSv 9000 into my home ESXi based lab.įirst step is to obtain the software from the Cisco site. Though it does not implement the full set of features, the interface throughputs are rate limited to 4Mb, and there is a limit of 64 interfaces, it has enough to make it very useful for modelling and testing various configurations before they are pushed into a production environment (’cause who has a couple of 9K’s just sitting around to play with?). With Cisco’s long term strategy seeming to be pushing the 9K’s into the access layer I feel it is wise to get up to speed on the capabilities and nuances of this OS. I don’t really have much operational experience with NX-OS so was very happy to recently discover that Cisco has a freely downloadable virtual version of the Nexus 9000 software. A site I work with uses Nexus 9000 series switches in their datacentre.
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