Guidelines And Limitations; System Requirements; Hardware Requirements; Software Requirements - Cisco Nexus 1000V Installing Manual

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Prerequisites for Installing the VSM Software

Guidelines and Limitations

It is your responsibility to monitor and install all the relevant patches from Microsoft on the Windows
hosts.

System Requirements

This section describes the hardware and software requirements.

Hardware Requirements

The hardware must meet the requirements set by Microsoft to run the Hyper-V role. The Cisco Nexus
1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) requires VMs with the following
configuration:

Software Requirements

To install and bring up a Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V, you need the following server
setup:
To configure the VSM, you need the following information:
Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Installation Guide, Release 5.2(1)SM1(5.2)
1-2
Hardware Requirements, page 1-2
Software Requirements, page 1-2
4 GB minimum of hard disk space
4 GB minimum of RAM
As a best practice, we recommend that you have four network adapters (network interface
cards—NICs) on the host where Microsoft Hyper-V is installed. You can have various combinations
depending on the hardware that you have. For example, you can have one NIC with four ports or
four NICs with one port each.
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 SP1 UR3 (build version
3.1.6027.0) or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) WS2012-R2 (build
version 3.2.7510)
Windows 2012 hosts
Windows 2012 R2 hosts
Active Directory server
VSM IP address
VSM domain ID (1—1023)—This ID is used for high availability (HA)
Layer 3 connectivity between a VSM and the hosts that run a VEM is required.
Layer2 mode is not supported.
Layer3 UDP port number 4785
Communication between the VSM and VEM occurs over UDP port number 4785 that uses the
Cisco Nexus Control Protocol (CNCP)
TCP Port 80 is open on the network for communication from the SCVMM to VSM. In case of https,
the TCP Port is 443.
Chapter 1
Installing the Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V
OL-30997-01

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