Earlier this year I made a trunk connection between HP Procurve switch and a VMWare ESXi5. But now i’ve created a connection between a Cisco Catalyst Switch 3750 and a VMWare ESXi5 To do this you have to go to the configuration of you ESX Server and than the Network properties. Choose the vSwitch you […]
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In this blog post I will write about the configuration between a Cisco Catalyst Switch and a NetAPP storage device. You will see in this example that I’ve used a VLAN tag 10 on the Interfaces which are used for the EtherChannel configuration Configure first the interface ports which you going to use for the
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How to configure a trunk between a VMware server and a HP Procurve Switch. You can decide by yourself what to configured first. I will explainthe settings for the VMware ESX server first and than I will explain the switch configuration. Vmware ESX Server Login to the VMware VCenter Console. Click on an ESX Server
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On a Cisco IOS Router you have the comman show running-config this will show you the entire configuration which are currently is configured. How ever beside the show running-config you have some extra commands shown here below: sh run | ? append Append redirected output to URL (URLs supporting append operation only) begin
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1: login to the switch through TELNET OR SSH 2: Standard configuration does not contain a password 3: type configure terminal 4: type a hostname “name of the switch”. 5: Type vlan 1 and configure an ip address 6: Enter a default gateway 7: type ip routing & default route “ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x” When you enable routing, and default
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Some of the readers will probably already know that the HP Procurve switch lines has an stacking command to add new switches into the stacking group. The only thing you will need is that one of the switches is the Stack Commander. To configure a switch as stack commander. you will need the first command
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How to configure a Netgear Readynas 3200 with 2 lan connections to a HP Procurve 2810-24 or 48 switch. To configure a Netgear Readynas 3200 with 2 lan ports to an HP Procurve 2810-24/48 switch. On the Netgear Readynas 3200 you have to set the LAN connections too. At the tab Ethernet 1 you can
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Today I was figuring out how to get an automatic backup of the configuration of a cisco router device. After some searching I found a Cisco Document. ( click here ) In this document was written how to create an automatic backup. What do you need to create this backup. A computer or server with
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I noticed from an installation which i made for trunking between a HP Procurve switch and some ESX servers. So after some weeks with issues I found a solution to get rid of Dropped TX packets. The following you will need to configure on your Switch. ( i used a HP Procurve switch 4208GL )
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Today I was wondering how to get a cisco console cable working on a Macbook Pro. Well after installing the driver ( downloaded from apple.com/support ( the PL2303 driver ) i could user my usb-to-serial. now I connected my light blue console cable. The following thing I had to do was: use the command: ls
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