Nexus 5K Overview

Some basics on the 5010, 5020, 5548P/UP and 5596UP/T. This post is still a work in progress.

Jumbo MTU Cheatsheet

How the maximum MTU is configured across the different CCIE DC lab devices is fairly complex and varied.  I've condensed my understanding of how to configure in the document below.  For reference material I used the fantastic post by Peter Revill (http://www.ccierants.com/2013/10/ccie-dc-definitive-jumbo-frames.html) and various Cisco documents.  Any mistakes are clearly mine.

Nexus 5000 FCoE Notes

Just some notes from reading about FCoE on the 5K.

Nexus System Management

Just a few items for review and documentation

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 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.

Nexus Configuration Summary Notes

The intent of this post is to provide some short guidance for configuring Nexus products.