Recently I have shown how to upgrade Cisco Nexus 1000v components: VSM and VEM. The next step would be upgrading of ESXi host. As I will show in this post, the upgrade of ESXi host with VEM installed on it requires some additional steps. ESXi image does not contain VEM VIB so during upgrading ESXi… Read More »
Last weekend, I did an upgrade of Nexus 1000v at my customer site and I decided to share how to perform it smoothly 🙂 There are two main upgrade phases as follows: Upgrade the VSMs. Upgrade the VEMs. There are some prerequisites for upgrading VSMs: Check the Upgrade Guide 🙂 Save all changes in the… Read More »
During preparation to the upgrade of Nexus 1000v (for my customer), I recollected that I have some posts waiting in the "queue" to be completed and published 🙂 One of such post is related to design of L3 Control interface used for VSM-VEM traffic. Cisco Nexus 1000v is very popular and still supported in VMware… Read More »