Today I was setting up the Nexus 1000V with Cisco UCS, and this was my 2nd time of experiencing the nexus 1000V. Previous experience when I did the 1st installation and configuration on Nexus 1000V, it take me few days to get it done, but it only took us 1 few hours to do so with a help from my colleague who are the networking expert. I was using the Nexus 1000V version 1.2 which is greatly enhance and simplify VS the version 1.
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Just came across the release note from Cisco and VMware about the latest version Nexus 1000V R1.2 for VMware vSphere 4. According to the original blog there are new improvement on the area below
- GUI setup following software install
- Layer 3 control between VSM and VEMs
- Virtual Service Domains for classifying and separating traffic for network services
- iSCSI Multipath—supporting multipath feature introduced in vSphere 4
- XML API for developing client apps for managing/monitoring the Nexus 1000V
- DHCP Snooping for validating DHCP messages and filtering invalid responses
- Dynamic ARP Inspection for validating ARP requests and responses
- IP Source Guard for filtering traffic on interfaces to valid MAC and IP addresses
- MAC Pinning for assigning Ethernet port members to particular port channel subgroup (where upstream switches do not support port channels)
- Static Pinning
There are more new features in the latest release and please read more from here.
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Cisco had officially launched the Palo adapter for their UCS platform. Now you will have more choice to select the adapter to be used by the UCS platform. While I am searching more information on the net to compare about the different within Palo and Menlo, I found this great article which provide a very detail overview of the UCS networking, nexus 1000v and etc.
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I just got the confirmation from the Cisco representative as the Nexus 1000V will be bundle on the Cisco UCS as FOC if the customers who deploy the virtualization VMware vSphere 4 with Cisco UCS platform. It will definitely be helpful and encourage more users to be adopted on nexus 1000V implementation in the Virtual Infrastructure when the VMware vSphere 4 are deploying on Cisco UCS platform. If you are running the VMware vSphere 4 with others server vendor, the Nexus 1000V will be an extra features with additional cost.
