Development of Nexus 1000v
N1KV was developed jointly by VMware and Cisco. As such, it is certified by VMware to be compatible with VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, and many other vSphere features.
Virtual Ethernet interfaces
Cisco N1KV when enabled for VN-Link, operates on the basis of virtual Ethernet (vEth) interfaces. Once enabled for VN-Link, it maintains network configuration attributes, such as security and statistics for a given virtual interface across mobility events. vEth interfaces are comparable of physical network access ports. A mapping gets created between each vEth interface and the corresponding vNICs on the VM. You may ask me why ...
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