{"id":384,"date":"2012-04-18T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevine.info\/?p=384"},"modified":"2012-04-18T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:17:11","slug":"nx-os-fcoe-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevine.info\/index.php\/2012\/04\/nx-os-fcoe-license\/","title":{"rendered":"NX-OS FCoE License"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enabling FCoE on a Nexus swich is pretty simple:<\/p>\n

feature fcoe<\/pre>\n
What’s not all that well documented is that uses a temporary 120 day license. After the 120 days the switch disables FCoE. That is a very bad thing, especially when the switch is providing the storage backbone for a vSphere cluster running around 200VMs.<\/p>\n
To properly license FCoE a license number must be registered on Cisco’s website. This generates a license file that gets uploaded to the switch.\u00a0http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/switches\/datacenter\/sw\/nx-os\/licensing\/guide\/Cisco_NX-OS_Licensing_Guide_chapter1.html#task_24958<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enabling FCoE on a Nexus swich is pretty simple: feature fcoe What’s not all that well documented is that uses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information","category-topics-in-virtualization","category-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":380,"url":"https:\/\/jamesdevine.info\/index.php\/2011\/12\/nx-os-tftp\/","url_meta":{"origin":384,"position":0},"title":"NX-OS TFTP","author":"James Devine","date":"December 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Typically on Cisco IOS the copy command will use the default\u00a0management\u00a0interface for TFTP traffic. 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