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Information About Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
Cisco Integrated Management Controller
Getting Started With the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
Flow Chart: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
Overview
This chapter describes the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance (VSA) and includes the following topics:
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Information About Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
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Information About Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
The Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family includes the Cisco Nexus 1010, Cisco Nexus 1010-X, Cisco Nexus 1110-S, and the Cisco Nexus 1110-X.
The Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family product family comprises networking appliances that can host from 6 upto 14 Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual service blades (VSBS) on a Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance.
The Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family supports VSBs like Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), Network Analysis Module (NAM), Virtual Security Gateway(VSG), and Data Center Network Management Module (DCNM).
The Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance provide dedicated hardware for the VSM. From a network management perspective, the hosted VSMs appear as a cluster. Each VSM and its associated VEMs make up one virtual switch. VSMs that were hosted on VMware virtual machines can be hosted on a Cisco Nexus 1010, Cisco Nexus 1010-X, Cisco Nexus 1110-S,or Cisco Nexus 1110-X appliance. This allows you to install and manage the VSM like a standard Cisco switch. The services (VSM, VSG,DCNM, or NAM) managed by the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family are called virtual service blades (VSBs).
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Hardware Features
Table 1-1 describes the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family hardware features.
For a complete description and specifications, see the "Technical Specifications" section.
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Front Panel Description
This section includes the following topics:
Cisco Nexus 1010
This section describes the front panel of a Cisco Nexus 1010 and Cisco Nexus 1010-X.
For a complete description of LED indicators, see the "Status LEDs" section.
Figure 1-1 Front panel of a Cisco Nexus 1010 product family
Cisco Nexus 1110
This section describes the front panel of a Cisco Nexus 1110-S and Cisco Nexus 1110-X.
Figure 1-2 Font Panel Features
Rear Panel Description
This section includes the following topics:
Cisco Nexus 1010
This section describes the rear panel of a Cisco Nexus 1010 product family.
For a complete description of LED indicators, see the "Status LEDs" section.
Figure 1-3 Rear panel of a Cisco Nexus 1010 Product Family
Power supply
10/100 Ethernet CIMC management port (RJ-45)1
Used for configuration of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) software only. Cisco Nexus 1010 product family software is configured using the serial connector port (number 4). The Cisco Nexus 1010 product family only supports Gigabit ports.
USB 2.0 connectors (two)
Used with the supplied thumb drive for transferring a script file.
Serial connector (DB9)
Used for out-of-band terminal access or serial over LAN access for Cisco Nexus 1010 and Cisco Nexus 1010-X software configuration.
Video connector (15-pin VGA)
10/100/1000 Ethernet ports (two on the motherboard)
Used to connect to an upstream switch.
Quad-port NIC with four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
Used to connect to an upstream switch.
Standard-profile PCIe card slot (not used)
1 Although the Cisco Nexus 1010 interfaces allow 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections, the NX-OS operating system requires that the Cisco Nexus 1010 be connected to 1-Gigabit ports on the uplink switches. You cannot modify this speed setting but might need to set the speed and duplex settings on the upstream switches.
Cisco Nexus 1110
Figure 1-4 shows the rear panel features.
Figure 1-4 Rear Panel Features
Cisco Integrated Management Controller
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) is a software interface included with the Cisco Nexus 1010 product family. CIMC allows you to configure serial over LAN (SoL) access and set up remote management in the event the device becomes unreachable. When installing the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance, you have the option of configuring the CIMC interface. To configure the CIMC software while installing the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance, see the "Installing a Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance With CIMC" section.
Getting Started With the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
To get started with the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance, you first install the hardware appliance and connect it to the network. This document includes procedures for doing this. This document also includes crucial safety information and prerequisite information for each step of the hardware install.
You can use either of the following processes to install the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance hardware. The difference is whether you include CIMC configuration. For more information, see the "Cisco Integrated Management Controller" section.
Once you install the hardware and connect it to the network, you can configure the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family management software which includes migrating existing VSMs from a VM to the Cisco Nexus 1010 product family appliance as virtual service blades (VSBs), or creating and configuring new VSBs. Detailed information about configuring the software is found in the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance Software Configuration Guide, Release .
For an overview of the complete installation process, see the "Flow Chart: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance", next.
Flow Chart: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
For detailed steps of an installation work flow see, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_2_1_s_p_1_4/Workflow/HTML/InstallationWorkflowCiscoNexus1010.htm. Figure 1-5 and Figure 1-6 show the basic steps for installing and configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family.
Figure 1-5 Flow Chart: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
Figure 1-6 Flow Chart: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
The procedures for installing the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance hardware are included in this document. To configure the software, see the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance Software Configuration Guide, Release .
