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Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Installation Guide, Release 5.2(1)SM1(5.2)
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Chapter 1 Installing the Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V
Prerequisites for Installing the VSM Software
Guidelines and Limitations
It is your responsibility to monitor and install all the relevant patches from Microsoft on the Windows
hosts.
System Requirements
This section describes the hardware and software requirements.
• Hardware Requirements, page 1-2
• Software Requirements, page 1-2
Hardware Requirements
The hardware must meet the requirements set by Microsoft to run the Hyper-V role. The Cisco Nexus
1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) requires VMs with the following
configuration:
• 4 GB minimum of hard disk space
• 4 GB minimum of RAM
• As a best practice, we recommend that you have four network adapters (network interface
cards—NICs) on the host where Microsoft Hyper-V is installed. You can have various combinations
depending on the hardware that you have. For example, you can have one NIC with four ports or
four NICs with one port each.
Software Requirements
To install and bring up a Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V, you need the following server
setup:
• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 SP1 UR3 (build version
3.1.6027.0) or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) WS2012-R2 (build
version 3.2.7510)
• Windows 2012 hosts
• Windows 2012 R2 hosts
• Active Directory server
To configure the VSM, you need the following information:
• VSM IP address
• VSM domain ID (1—1023)—This ID is used for high availability (HA)
• Layer 3 connectivity between a VSM and the hosts that run a VEM is required.
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Layer2 mode is not supported.
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Layer3 UDP port number 4785
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Communication between the VSM and VEM occurs over UDP port number 4785 that uses the
Cisco Nexus Control Protocol (CNCP)
• TCP Port 80 is open on the network for communication from the SCVMM to VSM. In case of https,
the TCP Port is 443.
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