Enabling Features Required For Vm-Fex - Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring VM-FEX
Step 8 vCenter: Create a datacenter on the vCenter.
Step 9
Switch: Activate and verify the SVS connection to the vCenter.
See Activating an SVS Connection to the vCenter Server, on page 195
vCenter Server, on page
Step 10 vCenter: Verify that the port profiles (port groups) are propagated to the vCenter.
Step 11 Server: Add resources to the DVS.
a) Add the ESX host to the DVS.
b) Add the static vNICs as uplinks to the DVS.
c) Associate VMs to the port groups defined by the switch.
d) Activate the VMs.
Step 12 Switch: Verify that the dynamic vNICs are active, assigned to VMs, and connected to the vEthernet interfaces
of the switch.
See Verifying the Status of the Virtual Interfaces, on page
Step 13 Server: Verify that the interfaces are active and assigned to the VMs.
Step 14 vCenter: Verify that the dynamic vNICs are active.

Enabling Features Required for VM-FEX

Procedure
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Command or Action
switch# configure terminal
install feature-set
virtualization
feature-set virtualization
feature fex
feature vmfex
feature vpc
vethernet auto-create
feature fcoe
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series NX-OS Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
Enabling Features Required for VM-FEX
and Verifying the Connection to the
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Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Installs the virtualization feature set on the switch.
Enables the virtualization feature set on the switch. This
feature set enables the use of static vEthernet interfaces.
Enables FEX features on the switch.
Enables VM-FEX features on the switch. This feature set
enables the use of dynamic vEthernet interfaces.
Enables a virtual port channel (vPC) on the switch.
(Optional)
Globally enables the automatic creation of virtual Ethernet
interfaces. This feature is not required if the fixed vEthernet
interfaces are statically configured.
(Optional)
Enables Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on the switch.
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