Deploying VSM

This is a good example to show how Nexus maintains the division between administrator roles while requiring collaboration at the same time.

1. Deploying VSM is the responsibility of an SA. The Cisco N1KV series is installed through a GUI installer when the OVA file is used.
2. Once the VSM deployment is done, NA finishes the installation of the Cisco N1KV switch. Once that job is done, the NA needs to open up the web interface of the Cisco N1KV. It needs to configure the VSM with the appropriate port-group VLAN and also perform the basic configuration of the Cisco N1KV series.
3. Once the communication gets established, the NA defines the port profiles to be used by the uplink interfaces, VMs, and other virtual interfaces. This is done via SSH to the N1KV switch.
4. Once the NA finishes defining the port profiles, the SA assigns the uplink port profiles to the appropriate physical NICs and then the port profile to VMs, providing network connectivity to the guest OS and migrating the VSM on...