Nexus 9K on Workstation or Fusion

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cciedc-2
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Nexus 9K on Workstation or Fusion

Post by cciedc-2 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:47 pm

Team,

I've successfully played around with IOU L2/L3 all day long.
I want to test VXLAN.
I have install N9ks following the instructions.
The boxes come up fine, they start, I can telnet, but I just don't get any output at all on my screen (on my terminal screen regardless the terminal program I use).

This is from my laptop using VMware Worskation or Fusion and 16GBs of RAM.
I just try a single N9K to avoid resource issues, but same problem.

Appreciate any feedback, thank you.

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Re: Nexus 9K on Workstation or Fusion

Post by Uldis (UD) » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:50 pm

probably you will not be able to run NX9K on laptop..
Single NX9K node need x2 virtual CPU and 8Gb RAM !!!
Depends how much you had given for EVE VM...

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Re: Nexus 9K on Workstation or Fusion

Post by cciedc-2 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:01 pm

Thank you for your reply Uldis.
I assigned 8Gb of RAM and x2vCPU to EVE VM to just try to fire up a single N9K, but it probably won't run as you mention.

I'll get my hands on a server with more resources.
Thanks again!

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Re: Nexus 9K on Workstation or Fusion

Post by cciedc-2 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:26 pm

Uldis, I'm now on a server with 64 MB of RAM.
I have assigned EVE VM 32 MB and 8 vCPUs.
The 9Ks start, I can "connect" via telnet, but that's where the screen freeze.

I have HW acceleration enabled, and resource utilization is pretty low...
I'm still using VMware Workstation since this server is just running Ubuntu.

Where can I see what's going on?

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