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• CPU speed 1500 MHZ<br />

• Configured 2 GB RAM for the VSM VM<br />

• 3 NICs<br />

• SCSI Hard Disk, 3 GB with LSI Logic Parallel adapter<br />

• Reserve 2 GB RAM for the VSM VM<br />

• Configure VM network adapters <strong>and</strong> attach ISO to VM <strong>and</strong> power on.<br />

The Nexus 1000V virtual appliance has two different modes of installation with the 4.0(4)<br />

SV1(2) software release. The next section covers the manual installation of the VSM virtual<br />

appliance. The section, “Nexus 1000V GUI Installation” covers the GUI installation. Refer<br />

back to the topology in Figure 9-1 for the configuration that follows.<br />

Nexus 1000V Deployed on Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Blade<br />

The Nexus 1010 offers a dedicated hardware solution to deploy virtual network services.<br />

The following services can be deployed on the Nexus 1010 <strong>and</strong> Nexus 1010-X:<br />

• Nexus 1000V Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)<br />

• Nexus 1000V Virtual Security Gateway<br />

• Nexus 1000V Network Analysis Module<br />

• Data Center Network Manager<br />

The Nexus 1010(s) can be deployed in a HA pair. The HA pair offers stateful failover<br />

between active <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>by Cisco Nexus 1010 appliances. The HA pairs need to be the<br />

same hardware platforms, meaning a pair to consist of Nexus 1010 <strong>and</strong> Nexus 1010 or a<br />

pair consisting of Nexus-1010-X <strong>and</strong> Nexus-1010-X; they cannot be mixed.<br />

Providing a dedicated appliance for the virtualized services enables network administrators<br />

to easily install <strong>and</strong> configure virtual access switches similar to the way they install <strong>and</strong><br />

configure physical switches. Dedicating a hardware appliance simplifies deployment,<br />

upgrades, <strong>and</strong> configuration because there is not a dependency on finding server resources<br />

for these resources.<br />

The Nexus 1010 has different deployment options. These options vary depending on<br />

topology; the options are documented in the Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance<br />

Deployment Guide, which you can find at Cisco.com or from this URL:<br />

http://tinyurl.com/ccwoyq2.<br />

The Nexus-1010 <strong>and</strong> Nexus 1010-X have different scale <strong>and</strong> feature sets; refer to the Cisco<br />

Nexus 1010 <strong>and</strong> 1010-X Virtual Services Appliances Data Sheet for specifics<br />

(http://tinyurl.com/462udl8).<br />

The Nexus 1000v Installation Management Center installs only the VSM on an ESX; it does<br />

not install the VSM on a Nexus 1010. For VSM on Nexus 1000V Virtual Supervisor Module<br />

on the Nexus 1010 dedicated appliance, perform the following steps:<br />

1. SSH to the Nexus 1010 Appliance Management IP Address:<br />

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