Hi all!
I know a lot has been wirtten about the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch ( I've read a lot about it but I still need some help/directions). I know how a distributed vSwitch works and more or less what one can do with it. But I don't get the Nexus thing to work.
Situation:
I want to configure the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch on two esx servers with two physical nics each. One of them, vmnic0, stays with the legacy switches because the service console, vmkernel and most of the vms must stay there. I configured the VEM according to the documentation the dvs is configured in the vcenter and once I connect ESX server to it the configuration is "broadcasted" to them. What I don't want to configure at the moment are vlans and I can't spare any more physical nics. This configuration is purely for demonstration.
Connecions are working :
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vem(config)# show svs connections
connection vc:
ip address: 192.168.11.68
remote port: 80
protocol: vmware-vim https
certificate: default
datacenter name: Democenter
DVS uuid: 29 2a 3c 50 a6 90 7d 68-dc 80 b5 d2 0e 53 c4 00
config status: Enabled+
operational status: Connected
sync status: Complete
version: VMware vCenter Server 4.1.0 Build-258902
vem(config)#
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But no modules show up!
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vem(config)# show module
Mod Ports Module-Type Model Status
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1 0 Virtual Supervisor Module Nexus1000V active *
Mod Sw Hw
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1 4.0(4)SV1(3b) 0.0
Mod MAC-Address(es) Serial-Num
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1 00-19-07-6c-5a-a8 to 00-19-07-6c-62-a8 NA
Mod Server-IP Server-UUID Server-Name
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1 192.168.11.166 NA NA
this terminal session
vem(config)# show module vem mapping
Mod Status UUID License Status
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vem(config)#
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Could someone point me in the right direction, may be someone has a step by step howto or something similar (not the cisco docs, read them, but they are so advanced, I suppose one needs to be ccna to understand that!).
Thanx for your help
Harro Nehlsen, 
