Using a Proxy with vSphere Virtual Serial Ports. Print Download Zip. Display Table of Contents. I'm setting up a Cisco virtual wireless controller using the guide provided here: The narrator talks. Introduction This document describes how to configure Configure Serial Port Access to NX-OSv 9000 on VMware ESXi. The NX-OSv 9000 is a virtual switching platform that can be used to simulate many L2 aspects of the Cisco Nexus 9000. NX-OSv 9000 supports many control plane operations of the Nexus 9000 while supporting a subset of data plane functionality that includes basic L2/L3 functionality such as routing protcols (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)), trunking, Switch Virtual Interface (SVI's), VXLAN (flood and learn), and standard (non-vPC) port-channels. Note: As of 7.0(3)I5(1) certain NX-OS features such as Virtual Port-Channels (vPC), OTV, ACL's and VXLAN (BGP EVPN) might have CLI present and the switch will accept configuration but these features are not tested or supported. For more details on the supported functionality and limitation click this configuration guide under Table 1 Supported Layer 2 and Layer 3 Features (Software) and Table 2 NXOS Features Not Supported (Not Tested). The NX-OSv 9000 can be managed in a similar method as a physical switch that uses inband interfaces (SVI), management interfaces (mgmt0) or the console connection. The purpose of this article is to describe how to connect NX-OSv 9000 running on VMware ESXI hypervisor to a network backed virtual serial interface. Virtual Serial PortPrerequisites Requirements Cisco recommends you have knowledge of these topics: • vSphere/ESXi host configuration fundamentals. • Virtual Machine (VM) administration. • Knowledge of the transit network. Caution: This configuration example references 3rd party software that is not supported directly by Cisco. Additional assistance with ESXi/vSPhere can be attained directly from VMware:. Components Used The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions: • NX-OSv 9000 deployed ESXi version ( 6.0.0 [Build 3620759] ). • Sufficient priveleges on the ESXi host (standalone or vCenter managed) and NX-OSv 9000 virtual machine. • Network access from a managment workstation sufficent to allow the TCP port of the virtual serial port to the ESXi VMkernel interface. • Virtual Serial Port functionality requires ESXi Enterprise or Enterprise Plus licensing. • VMware Distributed Switch (vDS) is not supported with NX-OSv 9000 and requires a standard vSwitch. Note: vMotion is not supported with a direct URL for network backed Virtual Serial Port. If vMotion is needed a Virtual Serial Port Concentrator can be deployed (vSPC). The configuration details of a vSPC are beyond the scope of this document but can be found under the VMware vSphere Documentation Center. Configure Network Diagram Configurations 1. Configure the ESXi host firewall to allow connectivity to the remote serial port. This can be done from both the GUI (such as the vSphere Client or Web Client) or the CLI. Both examples are given. Virtual Serial Port Concentrator Vsphere EditionFrom the SSH CLI on the ESXi host:!By default the Remote Serial Port service is disabled:! [root@localhost:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset list| grep remoteSerialPort remoteSerialPort false!Enable the remoteSerialPort ruleset:! [root@localhost:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset set --enabled true --ruleset-id=remoteSerialPort!Validate that the remoteSerialPort service is now enabled.! [root@localhost:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset list| grep remoteSerialPort remoteSerialPort true From the GUI (vShere Web Client): 2. Under the VM Edit Settings menu add a network backed serial port to the NX-OSv 9000 Virtual Machine. The NX-OSv 9000 VM must be turned off to add this. Note: the interface IP address specified for the port URI must be the VMkernel interface IP address that is used for managment services on the ESXi host the VM currently resides on. Update.exe is not a valid win32 application.
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