Hi Guys
This is a very very quick blog post that I hope to expand in the future. (I apologise in advance for the disjointedness of this post.)
If like me you had huge problems getting the Nexus 1000v working at some points some troubleshooting tips would be lovely!!!
First of all, the most important troubleshooting you can do in my opinion is the vem-health command, you need to have console access to your ESXi server, here is a handy tip, you can do it via SSH, but if for some reason you only have console access, you can actually do it by pressing
Alt-F1
this will take you to the console.
Then, issue this command:
~ # vem-health check 00:50:56:a0:42:08
VSM Control MAC address: 00:50:56:a0:42:08
Control VLAN: 20
DPA MAC: 00:02:3d:40:03:02
The VEM-VSM connectivity seems to be fine.
How do you get this MAC address? go to your nexus 1000v and issue this command
Nexus1000v# show svs neighbors
Active Domain ID: 3
AIPC Interface MAC: 0050-56a0-4208
Inband Interface MAC: 0050-56a0-420a
The highlighted section is the MAC address you need.
Pay careful attention to what it says, if it says that the control is not working between the VEM and the VSM you need to investigate why.
Top gear top tip - to make things take affect, remove the vmware port group command and put it back in, note that this WILL remove it from your VMWARE configuration so you will need to add it back in.
Another two extremely useful commands:
~ # vemcmd show l2 20
Bridge domain 6 brtmax 4096, brtcnt 4, timeout 300
VLAN 20, swbd 20, ""
Flags: P - PVLAN S - Secure D - Drop
Type MAC Address LTL timeout Flags PVLAN
Dynamic 00:50:56:a0:42:08 307 1
Static 00:02:3d:80:03:02 6 0
Dynamic 00:0c:29:e1:61:5a 307 1
Static 00:02:3d:40:03:02 10 0
in the example above my control VLAN is VLAN 20. This allows me to see if any MAC addresses have been learnt out here, they should be! there should be some dynamic MAC's learnt if the control is working.
OK, next useful command:
~ # vemcmd show vlan 20
VLAN 20, vdc 1, swbd 20, hwbd 6, 3 ports
Portlist:
10
18 vmnic1
307
this useful command helps you make sure that your control VLAN is actually bound to one of the interfaces.
I know this is a little rushed guys but I promise i will have a more detailed blog post on this later, i just needed to capture these two commands as they totally saved my bacon at one point!
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