How to Configure the Cisco Nexus 1000V

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How to Configure the Cisco Nexus 1000V

To enable the CA Virtual Systems Monitor to monitor the traffic on the Cisco Nexus 1000v, create a dedicated port profile for the CA Virtual Systems Monitor to see the appropriate VLAN traffic. After you provision the virtual machine, you can SPAN the VLAN traffic to the Monitor interface on the virtual machine. For information about mirroring VLAN traffic, see your Cisco product documentation.

When choosing the VLANs to monitor, if you:

Have separate VLANs for front-end servers (traffic coming from outside the ESX) and back-end servers (internal traffic inside the ESX), mirror the front-end server traffic to a physical monitoring device.
Do not have separate VLANs for front-end and back-end servers, mirror all the traffic in the ESX and mirror the external traffic coming to the ESX to a physical collector, then “pin” the front-end servers to the physical monitoring device.

Follow these steps:

In the Cisco Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), create and enable a dedicated Monitor port profile that the CA Virtual Systems Monitor can use to see SPAN traffic for the appropriate VLANs. For information about creating a port profile, see your Cisco product documentation.
If there is an existing port group or port profile for management data, use this to enable the CA Virtual Systems Monitor to communicate with the management console. If necessary, create a port profile named Management so that when you configure the network connections on the CA Virtual Systems Monitor, you can easily identify the network adapter that lacks the mirrored switch traffic.
Create the virtual machine on which the CA Virtual Systems Monitor will be hosted, and configure the virtual machine to use the Monitor and Management network adapters.
SPAN the virtual server-to-virtual server VLAN traffic to the Monitor interface on the CA Virtual Systems Monitor virtual machine.