Nexus N7K-2 is also connected to this segment:

Network Adapter 3 (e2/2) is connected to the 172.30.96.0 segment, which is actually a Virtual Machine portgroup name on the ESXi host.

LAN network is not connected or used at this point.

The nxos-mgmt = the management network.

Network Adapter 2-7 are devices e2/1-6 on the Nexus.

Network Adapter 1 is the mgmt 0 interface on the Nexus.

The serial port can be connected through Telnet on port 6001.

The configuration of the Titanium virtual machine should look like this:įor the N7K-1 switch (displayed in the image) add (for example) 7 adapters to the switch and a serial port: This article explains how you can access the Nexus serial port through a telnet connection. Also remove the serial port (if available) and add a new serial port to your virtual Nexus switch. The default NICs in the emulator won’t work with ESXi, so remove them and add E1000 adapters. After registering the virtual machine it becomes available in your vSphere inventory. The Titanium emulator comes as a set of files which can be uploaded to a VMFS/NFS datastore on an ESXi host.

On the second switch (N2K-2) port e2/1 is connected to the 172.30.96.0/24 network, and port e2/2 is connected to a third network with subnet 172.30.97.0/24.

On the first switch (N7K-1) port e2/1 is connected to the 192.168.192.0/24 network, and port e2/2 is connected to the 172.30.96.0/24 network.

For the SSH connection Nexus port “mgmt 0” is configured and connected to the management LAN. The serial port is connected to the management LAN using the serial-port-to-network feature of ESXi.

For management of the switches you have a serial port and an SSH connection available.

Two Nexus 7000 switches (bases on a simulator).

The lab which is discussed in this article runs on vSphere/ESXi and is built according to the following design: You can use the Titanium emulator for this setup, which has been leaked to the internet.

The goal is to create a lab containing two or more virtual Cisco Nexus switches, which can be used to learn/test NX-OS. Today a blog post on something I hope you will find useful: How to build a virtual Cisco Nexus lab on VMware vSphere.

Nexus switch simulator download free