System; Information About The System - Cisco Nexus 1000V Troubleshooting Manual

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System

This chapter describes how to identify and resolve problems related to the Nexus 1000V system.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Information About the System, page 21-1
• General Restrictions for vCenter Server, page 21-2
• Recovering a DVS, page 21-2
Problems Related to VSM and vCenter Server Connectivity, page 21-5
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Connection Failure After ESX Reboot, page 21-6
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VSM Creation, page 21-9
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Port Profiles, page 21-9
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Problems with Hosts, page 21-10
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Problems with VM Traffic, page 21-10
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VEM Troubleshooting Commands, page 21-11
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VEM Log Commands, page 21-12
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Error Messages, page 21-12
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Information About the System

Cisco Nexus 1000V provides Layer 2 switching functions in a virtualized server environment. Nexus
1000V replaces virtual switches within ESX servers and allows users to configure and monitor the
virtual switch using the Cisco NX-OS command line interface. Nexus 1000V also gives you visibility
into the networking components of the ESX servers and access to the virtual switches within the
network.
The Nexus 1000V manages a data center defined by the vCenter Server. Each server in the Datacenter
is represented as a linecard in Nexus 1000V and can be managed as if it were a line card in a physical
Cisco switch. The Nexus 1000V implementation has two components:
Virtual supervisor module (VSM) – This is the control software of the Nexus 1000V distributed
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virtual switch. It runs on a virtual machine (VM) and is based on NX-OS.
Virtual Ethernet module (VEM) – This is the part of Cisco Nexus 1000V that actually switches data
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traffic. It runs on a VMware ESX 4.0 host. Several VEMs are controlled by one VSM. All the VEMs
that form a switch domain should be in the same virtual Datacenter as defined by VMware vCenter
Server.
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