Today I attended the self-paced Cisco Nexus 1000V hands-on lab. The Nexus 1000V is a Distributed Virtual Switch, available for the upcoming next version of ESX(i).

The Nexus 1000V switch is a pure software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch. It resides on a server and integrates with the hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.

Basically, you have 2 parts: 1 that runs on each host (Virtual Ethernet Module) and 1 virtual appliance that runs the supervisor (Virtual Supervisor Module). … Continue Reading