Question

A network engineer needs to troubleshoot intermittent packet loss affecting a specific B-Series blade in a Cisco UCS domain. They want to mirror the traffic entering and leaving the blade's vNIC to an external protocol analyzer connected to a fabric interconnect port, without disrupting production traffic. Which UCS Manager configuration accomplishes this?

Accepted Answer

Create a traffic monitoring session, define the vNIC as the source with both-direction traffic, and set the destination to the analyzer's fabric interconnect port

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Enable port channel load balancing on the fabric interconnect uplinks and redirect traffic to the analyzer port

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Configure a QoS system class with a dedicated CoS value and apply it to the vNIC to duplicate frames to the analyzer

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Assign the analyzer port to a disjoint Layer 2 VLAN and add the vNIC to the same VLAN to capture traffic