Different from that of other Cisco IOS devices,Cisco Nexus 3000 Series supports sFlow. Hence I thought this blog will be helpful for our customers to know how to configure sFlow on their Nexus 3000.
Cisco Nexus 1000V deployment on ESX servers
The joint venture between Cisco and VMware brought a new highly scalable product for networkers is Cisco Nexsus 1000V. Cisco Nexus 1000V is a distributed virtual switch which is fully integrated within VMware Infrastructure. The Cisco Nexus 1000V has 2 different modules, they are ; Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM):- Each hypervisor contains one VEM module and it is a software solution that effectively performs following tasks: Advance Networking Security Traffic switching between virtual machines Routing between rest of the network Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) :- The VSM is a standalone, physical or virtual module that performs the following functions for the Cisco Nexus 1000V system: Configuration Management Monitoring Integration with VMware In the Cisco Nexus 1000V, traffic is switched between virtual machines locally at each VEM instance level