When provisioning non-Cisco phones on a Cisco-switched network, you may notice that the configured voice VLAN is not correctly provisioned to the phone. The phone ends up in the data VLAN, rather than the voice VLAN even though the switch port has been correctly configured.

There are two protocols which can be used to provision the correct VLAN to your phones: Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) and Link-Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). CDP is a proprietary protocol and is only supported on Cisco-switches and Cisco-phones. Non-Cisco devices usually use LLDP, which is an open standard supported by most other vendors. Although Cisco switches also support LLDP, it is by default not enabled, resulti  ...

It is possible to install the integration plugins for VMware on an ESX host directly from the Nimble website, provided your hosts have internet access:

1. Place the host into maintenance mode.
2. Connect to the host through a shell (e.g. SSH).
3. Run the command:

   esxcli software vib install -d http://update.nimblestorage.com/esx5/ncm

   Wait for the installation to complete.
4. Take the host out of maintenance mode and continue with the configuration.