6500-VSS and NEXUS 56XX vPC interoperability

[tlequertier]

Hello, is it possible to establish a PORT CHANNEL between a couple of Cisco 6500 running VSS mode and a couple of NEXUS 5000 running vPC? . Design should be " Back-to-Back" :  VSS-- Port-Channel--vPC.

I want also to support L2 and L3 flows between the two couples.

I read many forums but i am not sure it runs.

Is such design, if it runs; supported by Cisco?

Thanks a lot for your help.
 

[TIM JUDGE]

Hi Tlequertier,

We have VSS 6509Es with Sup 2Ts & 6908 modules. These have a 40gb/sec (4 x 10gb/sec) uplink to our NEXUS 5548UP vPC switches.

So we have a fully meshed ether-channel between the 4 physical switches (2 x N5548UP & 2x6509E)

Kind regards,

Tim

[tlequertier]

Tim, thanks a lot for your answer.

I'm not quite in same config (SUP720 instead of your SUP2T) but i think / i hope  it could do no differences in this area (VSS-"port-channel" -vPC)

[TIM JUDGE]

Not a problem, we had the same scenario working with VS-S720-10G (Sup 720 3c) before we replaced them with Sup2Ts so I can confirm it works with them too.

Kind regards,

Tim