True, the Nexus 1000V is not really a 'switch', it's more of an
interconnect. Still it's a cool piece of software to use with VMware.

Unfortunately it's not possible to emulate switches in GNS3 (GUI for
Dynamips and Dynagen). Besides that, why would you bother of emulating a
FastEthernet of GigabitEthernet interface? The performance of Dynamips is so
low, that you can hardly get 10Mbps of traffic, besides that it's not
designed to use it for that purpose and Dynamips has weird layer 1 and layer
2 things and even issues sometimes, so please don't try to use it as
test-environment for that. It's awesome, but it works the best for Layer 3
stuff and is fantastic as study environment :-)


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Regards,

Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com


On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM, joshua atterbury <
[email protected]> wrote:

> FYI the Nexus 1000V doesn't have spanning-tree as part of is feature set.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Mitch Peterson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Cisco has switch virtualization working already.  The Nexus 1000 runs
>> entirely in VMware.  I'm trying to get the server guys at work to buy
>> one so I can play with it.  According to our Cisco rep you can't tell
>> it's not a physical switch.
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