Cisco Nexus 5k configuration overview

This article will show a list of activities to basically configure a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch. This is not an advanced configuration article, just an overview of basic configuration. People new to Cisco Nexus switches will be displaced by three features/commands:

Shrinking VMware VMDK virtual hard disks

In this post we’ll see how to shrink a virtual (VMDK) disk before releasing the OVF/OVA image. Developing a VM which will be distributed online, require saving space. After deleting cache, log files, and so on, vmdk files won’t become smaller.