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Chapter 6 Configuring Real Servers and Server Farms
Configuring Dynamic Workload Scaling
Configuring and Verifying a Cisco Nexus 7000 Connection
This procedure describes how to configure an ACE with the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch attributes
required to allow the ACE to communicate with the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch using SSH. The
ACE uses the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series swtich to obtain VM location information (local or remote).
Note With Device Manager software Version A5(1.2), you can specify up to two Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
switches that the ACE is to poll. With Device Manager software Version A5(1.1), you can specify only
one Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch.
You can also use this procedure to edit the attributes of an existing Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch
profile or remove a switch profile.
Guidelines and Restrictions
Configure up to two Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switches per ACE in the Admin context.
Procedure
Step 1 Choose Config > Virtual Contexts > Load Balancing > Dynamic Workload Scaling > Nexus 7000
Setup.
The Nexus 7000 Setup pane appears.
Note If existing Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch profiles already exist, the Name field lists their
profile names in drop-down list on the right.
Step 2 From the Nexus 7000 Setup pane, do one of the following:
• Define a new Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch profile as follows:
a. From the Name field, click the text box radio button if it is not already selected and enter a Nexus
7000 name with a maximum of 64 characters. See the Note at the beginning of this chapter for ACE
object naming specifications.
b. From the Primary IP filed, enter the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series XML interface IP address in
dotted-decimal format (such as 192.168.11.1).
c. From the User Name field, enter the username that the ACE uses for access and authentication on
the Nexus 7000. Valid entries are unquoted text strings with a maximum of 64 characters with no
spaces.
Note The user must have either the vdc-admin or network-admin role to receive the Nexus 7000
output for the VM location information in XML format.
d. From the Password field, enter the password that the ACE uses for authentication on the
Nexus 7000. Valid entries are unquoted text strings with a maximum of 64 characters with no
spaces.
e. From the Confirm field, reenter the password and go to Step 3.
• Edit an existing Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch profile as follows: