In part one of this series we looked at starting up a couple of Nexus9000v machines using a tool called vagrant. It went OK, but we had some unfinished business. In this post we'll look at how I try to address the MAC address issues and run my first ansible playbook against this lab.

A recent tweet caught my eye: a new version of NX-OSv was available, together with instructions on setting it up in vagrant. Very good timing too, as I'm building automation (a bit of orchestration and a lot of validation) for a couple projects including for both the 7K and the 9K flavours of NX-API and could really use a decent machine-local lab.