Vpc Number; Vpc Interactions With Other Features; Vpc And Lacp; Vpc Peer Links And Stp - Cisco Nexus 3548 Configuration Manual
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Configuring Virtual Port Channels
peer link only or on the vPC peer switch. The keepalive messages are used only when all the links in the peer
link fail.
vPC Number
Once you have created the vPC domain ID and the vPC peer link, you can create EtherChannels to attach the
downstream switch to each vPC peer switch. That is, you create one single EtherChannel on the downstream
switch with half of the ports to the primary vPC peer switch and the other half of the ports to the secondary
peer switch.
On each vPC peer switch, you assign the same vPC number to the EtherChannel that connects to the downstream
switch. You will experience minimal traffic disruption when you are creating vPCs. To simplify the
configuration, you can assign the vPC ID number for each EtherChannel to be the same as the EtherChannel
itself (that is, vPC ID 10 for EtherChannel 10).
Note
The vPC number that you assign to the EtherChannel that connects to the downstream switch from the vPC
peer switch must be identical on both vPC peer switches.
vPC Interactions with Other Features
vPC and LACP
The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) uses the system MAC address of the vPC domain to form
the LACP Aggregation Group (LAG) ID for the vPC.
You can use LACP on all the vPC EtherChannels, including those channels from the downstream switch. We
recommend that you configure LACP with active mode on the interfaces on each EtherChannel on the vPC
peer switches. This configuration allows you to more easily detect compatibility between switches, unidirectional
links, and multihop connections, and provides dynamic reaction to run-time changes and link failures.
The vPC peer link supports 16 EtherChannel interfaces.
Note
When you manually configure the system priority, you must ensure that you assign the same priority value
on both vPC peer switches. If the vPC peer switches have different system priority values, vPC does not come
up.
vPC Peer Links and STP
When you first bring up the vPC functionality, STP reconverges. STP treats the vPC peer link as a special
link and always includes the vPC peer link in the STP active topology.
We recommend that you set all the vPC peer link interfaces to the STP network port type so that Bridge
Assurance is automatically enabled on all vPC peer links. We also recommend that you do not enable any of
the STP enhancement features on VPC peer links.
You must configure a list of parameters to be identical on the vPC peer switches on both sides of the vPC
peer link.
Cisco Nexus 3548 Switch NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide, Release 9x
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