When it comes to planning your Cisco Nexus 1000V install, you will find that there are a lot of decisions you need to make from both design perspective and installation procedure. Cisco provides multiple implementation options that you can choose from to get your Nexus 1000V up and running. Having these different options gives you flexibility but, at the same time, requires you to be aware of the specifics as you will see in this article that some options may not always be suitable in all situations. This can be overwhelming especially to newcomers who are still trying to grasp on the concept and components of Nexus 1000V. In this article, we discuss some of the common deployment options of Nexus 1000V that you can use to build your design upon. We will look at pros and cons for each option. Although we will not be covering installation and configuration processes in detail, we have videos that provide step-by-step guides on our website so feel free to check them out. Here, we assume that you have basic knowledge of Cisco Nexus 1000V and VMware vSphere server.
