We recommend you to use Cisco Nexus 1000VE Manager vCenter Plugin to deploy or migrate N1KVE.

The non-participating vEthernet ports on Cisco Nexus 1000 VE VSMs are deleted every 30 minutes.

Ensure that you have sufficient maintenance window during the upgrade process.

Service disruption is expected during the upgrade process.

Hence, module number indices will change after you upgrade Cisco Nexus 1000VE Release from a Release from earlier version to 5.2(1)SV5(1.3a).

VSE module number indices displayed using the show module are dynamically allocated from an internal pool.

Hence, after upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000VE Release from a Release from the earlier version to 5.2(1)SV5(1.3), the VSE IP address may not be the same as previously allocated.

For VSEs, the IP addresses are allocated from the Network IP Pool.

However, if you need to the Management IP and Domain Id after change establishing the SVS connection, see Cisco Nexus 1000VE for VMware vSphere System Management Configuration Guide.

We do not recommend you to change the Management IP and Domain Id after establishing the SVS connection.

Please refer VMware documentation or Online public forum discussions for more information.

vMotion service gets enabled for VMkernel adapter automatically that causes migration of unwanted VMKernel adapters to outside trunk vDS which eventually affect some services supported on those VMKernel ports.

CTS tagging over DPDK is not supported with RBACLs.

It is recommended to migrate from Classical Nexus 1000V to Release 5.2(1)SV5(1.2) and then upgrade to Release5.2(1)SV5(1.3a).

For migration, you must use the flex-based plugin.

The HTML5 based vCenter plugin is supported only for the installation/upgrade.

It is even better to save VSM configuration whenever there are changes in port-profile mappings of VM ports, so that any unforeseen HOST reboots or VSM/VSE reboots does not make VSM to lose port-profile mappings. This ensures all port-profile mappings of VM ports to be saved on VSM and when VSM/VSE comes back online, all the port-profile mappings are restored. It is recommended that Nexus1000v administrator save the configuration of VSM (using the write memory command) before conducting HOST reboot or VSM/VSE reboot.This section lists important notes and limitations for Cisco Nexus 1000VE:

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