Cisco fabric extender fex technology provides unified, scalable access and a single point of management across many devices. Configuring the cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extender. Cisco nexus 2000 series nxos fabric extender software. Configure cisco fex on nexus9k in cisco application centric infrastructure aci mode. Cisco fabric extender technology fex technology cisco. Only the ethernet interfaces on the switch chassis slot 1 can be used as fabric interfaces. Cisco nexus b22dell blade fabric extender details dell usa. Ill explain the configuration process to configure the fex for basic connectivity.
Configuration synchronization allows you to synchronize the configuration between a pair of switches in a network. Software configuration guide for cisco nexus 5000 series switches. Cisco nexus 5500 series nxos system management configuration guide, release 7. Fex units are priced attractively, as they serve a limited purpose and are not featurerich switches. Hi customer want me to defined a span port on n2k, it is a fex port. Displays all configured fabric extender chassis connected to the. The cisco nxos software allows for load balancing traffic across all operational interfaces on a fex host interface portchannel by hashing.
Straightthrough fex and activeactive fex cannot exist on a same asic instance. Utc in preparation for a major datacenter deployment, ive been refamiliarizing myself with cisco s nexus platform and naturally, what i pick up on the job will make its way onto the blog. Cisco nexus 5000 series switches configuration guides. Cisco nexus 2000 series nxos fabric extender configuration. Nexus 2200 fex configuration by stretch thursday, march 29, 2012 at 2. Cisco published a configuration guide for connecting a nexus 2248tp fex to a nexus 7000. Both cisco nexus 7000 series switches can configure the fex.
In this example we will set the interface 1 of fex 101 to 1 gigabit ethernet speed. In a data center that has deployed cisco nexus 5000 or 7000 switches, cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extenders fex are commonly used for top of rack tor connectivity. After an interface on the parent switch is configured in fexfabric mode, all other features that were configured on that port and are not relevant to. Cisco nexus 5000 series command reference fabric extender.
Cisco nexus 5000 series nxos adapterfex software configuration guide, release 5. How to set up cisco nexus fabric extender network computing. The vpc configuration synchronization feature can be used for fexaa. Both cisco nexus 7000 series switches can configure the. You use a switch profile to create a configuration file that is applied locally and used to synchronize the configuration to the peer. In this webcast, lucien covers data center switching with the cisco. On the egress side, a fex has no local forwarding table so when it receives a frame from the parent, it must be told which port to send the frame on. Lucien avramov is a customer support engineer at the cisco technical assistance center. Cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extenders configuration guides. Bug details include full description including symptoms, conditions and workarounds. Cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extender software configuration guide for. Configuring fex host interface hif at this stage the fex hif are visible by the leaf. Fexs configured in aa mode cannot have host interfaces configured in l3 mode. Cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extenders configuration.
All port configs acls, vlans, qos, etc are applied and acted upon by the parent switch once the fex sends an inbound frame to the parent. If loadbalancing mode is not configured, fabric extenders use the default system configuration. The cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extender, also known as fex, is a highly scalable and flexible server networking solution that works with cisco nexus series devices to provide highdensity, lowcost connectivity for server aggregation. In this free excerpt from his cisco ccna data center. Now we will be configuring physical properties of fex hif we will show one way to do it here. Cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extender software configuration. Cisco nexus 6000 series nxos adapterfex configuration guide, release 7. Bug details contain sensitive information and therefore require a cisco.
1114 267 1306 547 1065 1302 931 145 166 1449 175 342 993 549 339 416 617 512 290 1091 893 1450 128 558 1519 1146 442 1404 1105 827 506 1120 415 387 5 748 646 1383 1467 149 868 799 960 904