CCNA Data Center Flashcards
Describe how protocol Fiber Channel handles flow control
The receiver RX will send a credit signal to transmitter to tell it amount which is allow to send
Why have LAN and SAN have been segregated:
- Security -
- Bandwidth - SAN was also higher
- Flow Control
What is FCoE
Combining FC protocol with Ethernet Protocol to work over 10GIG links
Reasons to use the layered/modular approach
- Scalability
2. Resilient
Describe features of the Core Layer
- Large amount of bandwidth 40gig 100gig…
2.
What is VN-Link
The ability to tag traffic from one virtual machine to track the flow thru the network
Cisco Data Center 3.0 approach
- Virtualization
- Unified Fabric
- UCS
Nexus 7K should be able to do the following:
- L3/L2
2. DCB/FCoE
what is ISSU
In service software upgrade. Can be upgrade without interruption.
What is the CMP
Connectivity Management Processor.
Light out connectivity.
Own Memory
Own power supply
What is the difference between 5000 and 5500 series Nexus
The 5500 series provides L3
What is GEMs
Generic Expansion Module.
MDS
Multidirector Switches, Part of SAN
VOQ
Virtual Output Queuing
Protocols found in SAN
- FCoE
- FC
- FICON
4, FCIP - iSCSI
License types for SAN - MDS
- Feature Based
2. Module Based
What is NPV
N Port Virtualization - allows to scale SAN and not consume domain ids for each switch implemented
Sup 2 vs Sup 2A
SUP 2A has FCoE
On the Nexus, what version of SSH is default
SSHv2
What are the VRFs that default
- Default
2. Management
What can be upgraded with the ISSU
- Kickstart
- BIOS
- System
- FEX
- I/O Module
In an upgrade of the 5K, since there is not dual sups, what happens
The control plan will be interrupted, but the data plane continues to forward traffic
Steps to take when upgrading 5000
- download software cisco.com
- tftp -> bootflash
- show incompatibility
- show install all impact
- install all
- show install all status
type of planes of nexus
- data plane
- management plane
- Control plane
what is CoPP
Control plane policing -
control the limits of egress and ingress
CFS
Cisco Fabric Service
Peer Link port has to be what speed
10Gig
what parameters can you see on the keepalives
- Destination
- interval
- timeout
- hold timeout
- vrf
- udp port
- tos
Three important vpc commands
- show vpc brief
- show vpc peer-keepalive
- show vpc role
TRILL
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links - replacing Spanning Tree Protocol
What protocol does TRILL use
IS-IS
ECMP
Equal Cost Multipathing routing of L2 info - Fabric Path
OTV
Overlay Transport Overlay
OTV - Edge devices -two devices
Multihomed
OTV - Internal interfaces
do not participate in OTV. They do pass vlan information
OTV - Join Interfaces
L3 interfaces. Physical L3 interfaces.
OTV - Overlay Interfaces
Virtual interface that carry OTV traffic
EoR
End of Rack - 5K
ToR
Top of Rack - 2K
Where is a VNtag used
5k to 2K
What standard does VNtag use
802.1Qbh
What is the Fabic Port
It is the physical port that connects to the 2K
Where is a FEX uplink
on the 2K to the 5K
What is a FEX port
the port on the 2K that connects to a device
What is a VDC
Virtual Device Context
What are the physical disks called in storage
Array - based
What are the Logical Disk identifier called for storage
LUN - Logical Unit Number
What is LUN MASKING
Only allowing certain servers access to the logical disk
what is PWWN
Port World Wide Name
LUN MAPPING
done in FC environments - maps logical disks to host bus adaptors
LUN Zoning
Cisco version of LUN MAPPING
What are the benefits of virtualization
- Partitioning
- Encapsulation
- Isolation
- Hardware Abstraction
- CapEx/OpEx