Archive for March 30th, 2009

Nexus 7000 Virtual Portchannel Part 2

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Wow, last week I was swamped preparing for a domestic MPLS migration in India (more on that later). I wanted to post this sooner…

In Part 1 of configuring virtual port channels on the Nexus, I talked about what may be needed to enable the vpc feature. Here’s a continuation of the process.

Between your two nexus boxes, you’re going to have a vpc peer link and a vpc peer keep-alive link. Without the keep-alive link, your vpc peer link wont come up.

Cisco vpc config guide

See Diagram

Nexus

! Again, the first thing you want to do is enable vpc

Nexus1(config)# feature vpc

The vpc peer link between switches is going to be your traditional layer 2 trunk. There are some other minor configurations you will need regarding your vpc peer link.

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