Varrow Blogs

I just finished up another installation of the Nexus 1000v at a customer site a few days ago and thought it a fitting time to talk about what the Nexus 1000v has to bring to the table. The Background A little background in the Nexus 1000v is in order. The 1000v is just a virtual [...]

Uh oh. Something just happened to your VSM (Virtual Supervisor Module). Maybe the config was cleared or the entire (or both) VMs are gone and you don’t have a backup. How can you recover your now orphaned distributed switch? It’s not as hard as you’d think. This recently happened to me. Through an unusual chain [...]

Just a little FYI.  If you aren’t paying attention when configuring your port-profiles which turn in to your VMware Port Groups the default maximum number of ports is 32.  If you try to add another server you’ll get the following error:
The resource vim.dvs.DistributedVirtualPort is not available in vim.dvs.DistributedVirtualPortgroupYourPortGroupHere.
It’s an easy fix.  Just go to the [...]