Cisco Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

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Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance Troubleshooting Guide, Release 4.2(1)SP1(5.1)
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Problems with Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance
Problems with Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance 
This section includes symptoms, possible causes and solutions for the following problems with Cisco 
Nexus Virtual Services Appliance product family..
Table 1-1
Problems with Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance Product Family
Symptom
Possible Causes
Verification and Solution
The output of the show system 
redundancy status
 command, 
displays the standby Cisco Nexus 
Virtual Services Appliance in warm 
standby state. 
This may occur when there is no 
control traffic communication 
between the Cisco Nexus Virtual 
Services Appliance HA pair.
1.
Verify if the control VLAN configuration of 
both primary and secondary Cisco Nexus 
Virtual Services Appliance is the same.
show svs domain
2.
Verify if the upstream switch for both 
primary and secondary Cisco Nexus Virtual 
Services Appliance is configured by 
allowing the control VLAN in the list of 
VLAN permitted in the upstream trunk port.
interface name
switchport trunk allowed vlan add id 
3.
Verify the status of the ports.
show network uplink
The output of the show 
virtual-service-blade summary 
command displays the status of the 
VSB on the active Cisco Nexus 
Virtual Services Appliance as power 
in progress and the status of the VSB 
on the standby Cisco Nexus Virtual 
Services Appliance as powered on.
This may occur after the reload or 
upgrade of Cisco Nexus Virtual 
Services Appliance.
1.
Manually sync the state of the VSB on the 
Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance. 
Enter the command in the virtual service 
blade configuration mode.
description " " 
2.
Verify the status of the VSB.
show virtual-service-blade summary
Removal of a VSB fails and the 
following error message is logged:
Previous command in progress 
Multiple operations were carried 
out on the VSB before it was 
removed.
1.
Manually remove the VSB using the 
following command:
no enable force
2.
Verify the removal of the VSB.
show virtual-service-blade summary
Cisco Nexus Virtual Services 
Appliance reboots continuously and 
the following error message is 
logged:
Failed To boot server
In the flexible network uplink 
types, invalid network uplink types 
were assigned to Cisco Nexus 
Virtual Services Appliance. 
Ensure that only valid uplinks are assigned to 
Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance. 
See the Cisco Nexus Virtual Services Appliance 
Software Configuration Guide, Release 
4.2(1)SP1(5.1)
 for valid uplink types.