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How-to : Enable SSH on Cisco Nexus 1000v

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In order to enable SSH access to Cisco Nexus 1000v (if it’s not enabled yet) followign commands have to be issues from Console or Telnet connection:

Nexus 1000v Switch
login: admin
Password:
Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002-2012, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain works contained in this software are
owned by other third parties and used and distributed under
license. Certain components of this software are licensed under
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.0 or the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2.1. A copy of each
such license is available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php and
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php
nexus1000v# conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
nexus1000v(config)# ssh key rsa 2048 force
deleting old rsa key.....
generating rsa key(2048 bits).....
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generated rsa key
nexus1000v(config)# ssh server enable
nexus1000v(config)#

Now you can use SecureCRT or PuTTY to connect to Cisco Nexus vis SSH of course if IP address is configured on the device and it is connected to network 🙂

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How-to : Running Cisco Nexus 1000 as virtual machine on vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5

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In one of the previous articles I did quick overview How-to Install vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5 on VMware Workstation 9. One of the reasons I did that in my Lab environment was to run Cisco Nexus 1000v with NX-OS on it and evaluate this operating system and how it can integrate with other products. So, here is quick overview how to make Cisco Nexus 1000v happen on vSphere ESXi.

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