1000v in and out of vCenter

I was setting up the Nexus 1110 (aka: virtual service appliance, aka: VSA) with one of our best customers and as we were doing it the appliance rebooted never to come up again without completely reinstalling the firmware from the remote media.  Most of this was probably my fault because I didn’t follow the docs…

Quick SPAN with the Nexus 1000v

Today I thought I’d take a look at creating a SPAN session on the 1000v to monitor traffic.  I found it really easy to do!  SPAN is one of those things that takes you longer to read and understand than to actually configure.  I find that true with a lot of Cisco products:  Fabric Path,…