Step 4 Configure the same on N7K-2 with the loopback0 address of 20.20.20.2/32 and vrf as OSPF-VRF and assign it to interface eth2/1 and loopback0. We can also verify with “sh run vrf OSPF-VRF” to check the interface vrf assignment. Verify vrf assignment by “sh vrf interface” Also Create a VRF instance OSPF-VRF and assign it to interface Eth2/1 and Loopback0. Step-3 Check VRF membership of all interfaces inside N7K by ” show vrf interface”, by default there should be one “management” vrf for interface “mgmt0″and all other interfaces assigned to “default” vrf. Step-2:- Assign ip address of N7K-1 Ethernet2/1 as 12.12.12.1/24 and unshut the interface, also assign ip address of N7K-2 Ethernet2/1 as 12.12.12.2/24 and unshut the interface.Verify connectivity by pinging across the interfaces. N7K(config)# hostname N7K-1 –>Same for other machine as N7K-2. Step 1:- Lets change the hostname of the device and assign N7K-1 to one machine and assign N7K-2 to other machine, by our old IOS familiar command “hostname N7K-1″.Įnter configuration commands, one per line. Right now my Ethernet2/1 on both N7K is connected to Vmnet4 on both vmware machines.We need to confirm and recheck else our virtual machines will not talk to each other, they should be on the same Vmnet.

I have connected my network adapters as follows on both machines, we can check which physical Ethernet interface on N7K machine is connected to network interface card on vmware workstation by simply disconnecting and watching ” show interface brief” on N7K console which interface is going down.

I am running two N7K titanium machines inside vmware workstation and have connected 7 network adapters to emulate the physical interfaces in N7K, i am using titanium emulator version 5.2.1, if you are curious to know about the N7K titanium emulator and how to install inside vmware workstation, i will be writing more stuffs on it, soon. This exercise has been completed on Nexus 7K titanium emulator.

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