I went to Mumbai India a month ago for an IT project and it was my second time in the country. I wasn't able to travel around during my first visit due to work load and limited time. After my project was done, I visited famous landmarks like the Gateway of India (a.k.a Taj Mahal of Mumbai) and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel which is just on the opposite side. The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the landing of the British King and Queen when they visited India in 1911. There's a large inscription on top of the arch which reads,
'Erected to commemorate the landing in India of their Imperial Majesties King George V and Queen Mary on the Second of December MCMXI.'I've been a GNS3 user since it was still Dynamips back in the mid 2000s. GNS3 became more powerful and it can run IOU Layer 2 switch, ASAv firewall, CSR1000v router and Nexus 7000 (N7K) switch. The Titanium is the VM flavor for Cisco Nexus switch. I tried searching for a Nexus OVF file so I can run it directly in VirtualBox but I ended up exporting the OVF file from VM Workstation.
Open the Titanium file (.vmx) in WMware Workstation (I usedversion 10) by going to File > Open> search for the .vmx.
Edit the N7K settings to add a new Serial Port (console) byclicking Edit virtual machine settings underthe N7K tab.
Titanium is Cisco Nexus Operating System NX-OS emulator made by Cisco. A copy of Titanium 5.1.(2) installed on VMware image has recently leaked to the Internet and now we can use it for our studies. The tutorial shows how to do connect Titanium VMware image to GNS3 using Qemu emulator. Today a blog post on something I hope you will find useful: How to build a virtual Cisco Nexus lab on VMware vSphere. The goal is to create a lab containing two or more virtual Cisco Nexus switches, which can be used to learn/test NX-OS. You can use the Titanium emulator for this setup, which has.
Click Serial Port > Add > Next.
Leave the defaultsettings > click Next > Finish.
Click on the newSerial Port 2 > choose Use name pipe: > type and take note .pipeN7K > click OK.Thisis the text or string will be used to connect via Serial onthe terminal emulation program (PuTTy). Test and power on the Cisco Nexus switch VM by clicking on Play (green arrow icon).
Just click I copied itto continue with the boot up process.
Open PuTTy and type the Serial Port string: .pipeN7K
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To login type: admin/ cisco (obviously displayed in the login banner)
Once the Titanium VM is confirmed working, you can power off the VM by doing a right-click on the N7K tab > Power >Power off.
To export the VM file to OVF (for Virtual Box), click on File > Export to OVF > save theexported file to a location > wait for export to finish.
Open Virtual Box >click File > Import Appliance > choose the exported .ovf file > clickNext.
Click Reinitialize theMAC address of all network cards > Import
It defaults to the name vmand to edit the VM settings, click onthe VM name (vm) > click Settings (gear icon above). Under General >Basic > type the new Name for the VM.
Go to Serial Ports> Port 1 > tick Enable Serial Port > choose Port Mode: Host Pipe >type Path/Address: .pipeN7K> clickOK. Take not do NOT tick Connect to existing pipe/socket as it will causeVirtual Box not to power ON the VM.
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Power on the VM by doing a right-click on N7K > Start > Normal Start.
Virtual Box works seamlessly with GNS3 and to add the Nexus7K VM in Virtual Box, open GNS3 and go to Edit> Preferences.
Go to VirtualBox >VirtualBox VM templates > New.
Click N7K (it willshow other VM on the list > Finish.
Click Apply > OK.
To automatically open PuTTy for Nexus switch in GNS3, click on N7K > Edit > General Settings> tick Enable remote console and Start VM in headless mode > click OK> Apply > OK.
You can also tick Use as a linked base VM (experimental) to clone Nexus switch in GNS3 without manually cloning in VirtualBox,
Power off the N7K VM in VirtualBox. Close and open againGNS3 (a PC restart is also good). Drag theN7K icon > right-click > Start > Console.
I already got SecureCRT integrated with GNS3 and itautomatically opens after clicking on Console. You can also change the symbolfor the N7K to a multilayer switch. To add and connect more Nexus switches onthe topology, just clone the N7K VM in VirtualBox and add it to GNS3.
The Nexus switch will display a syslog message saying Application license will shutdown in x days (count down started from 120 days).
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You could enable an eval license (good for 120 days) with the
license grace-period global command. This will allow you to play around with the Nexus advanced features (such as OSPF).
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