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Sandeep Singh
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Introduction

 

A virtual PortChannel (vPC) allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus Series devices to appear as a single PortChannel to a third device. vPCs consist of two vPC peer switches connected by a peer link. Of the vPC peers, one is primary and one is secondary. The system formed by the switches is referred to as a vPC domain. The vPC domain includes both vPC peer devices, the vPC peer keepalive link, the vPC peer link, and all the PortChannels in the vPC domain connected to the downstream device.

This document explains the reason for getting error “vpc port channel mis-config due to vpc links in the 2 switches connected to different partners” while configuring vPC.

 

 

Problem

 

The host is connecting to the two Nexus switches above via 4 physical links; 2 links to first Nexus and 2 links to second Nexus switch. After configuring the switches user is getting error that vpc mis-config because switches are connected to different partners.

 

 

Configuration

 

Following is the vPC configuration of the devices.

 

N5k-01(config)#
interface Ethernet1/5
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  channel-group 60 mode active

interface Ethernet1/6
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  channel-group 60 mode active

interface port-channel60
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  speed 10000
  vpc 60

 

N5k-02(config)#

interface Ethernet1/5
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  channel-group 60 mode active

interface Ethernet1/6
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  channel-group 60 mode active

interface port-channel60
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk native vlan 17
  speed 10000
  vpc 60

 

 

Error Message

 

 

N5K-01# sh vpc 60

vPC status
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
id     Port        Status Consistency Reason                     Active vlans
------ ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------------- -----------
60     Po60        down*  failed      vpc port channel           -
                                      mis-config due to vpc
                                      links in the 2 switches
                                      connected to different
                                      partners

 

 

Resolution

 

The error indicates that the cabling is incorrect, or the server is not configured properly. Basically the switch is seeing a different LACP system ID from the different links.  To resolve this you need to ensure all 4 links on the host side are correctly configured in one bundle, not two.

 

 

Related Information

 

Virtual PortChannel Quick Configuration Guide

VPC on Nexus 5548 showing Error (Connected with Phycial Server)

 

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