1000v Port-Channels

Another topic of it's own on the blueprint

1000v Network Monitoring

A topic of it's own on the blueprint so I'm assuming this is worth a few points

Nexus 1000v Port Profiles and VLANs

I thought these topics were worth a dedicated post.

Nexus 1000v Virtualization

The blueprint has a section called 'Manage Data Center Virtualization with Nexus1000v'.  This post will cover this section of the blueprint.

Nexus System Management

Just a few items for review and documentation

UCS Hardware Overview

This post provides a high level listing of the hardware involved with the UCS solution.

Overview
UCS has three series of UCS servers - The B,C and E series.  The B series (think 'B" for Blade) is as you guessed, a blade based solution.  The C series are rack mount servers and the E series is based on a module that is inserted into an ISR router. 

NX-OS Security

A fairly large topic on the blueprint.  I'm pretty good with most of these topics but a few of them I don't touch very often.  I will spend more time on these.

Nexus 7000 BFD

Some BFD notes

Nexus 7000 FHRP

The Nexus 7000 supports HSRP, VRRP and GLBP.  The configuration of both HSRP and VRRP is very simple and I've used both many times so I'm not going to document them.  GLBP is worth some attention.

Nexus 7000 OSPF

Same strategy as for EIGRP

Nexus 7000 EIGRP

A few notes on EIGRP mostly focusing on differences and/or additions to IOS.

Nexus Spanning Tree

Covering some of the topics for both RPVST+ and MST in this post.

VLANs, Private VLANs and VTP

VLAN configuration is fairly simple but there are a few differences and enhancements in NX-OS that are worth exploring.

Fabric Path Notes

Below are notes I took when I did a Cisco PEC Fabricpath lab.