FEX-adapter channeling

[Jeremy Dubrulle]

Hi,

I have some non-Cisco physical servers. Wonder if they support the FEX-adapter technology, I'd like to understand if it's possible to have some redundancy or even channeling.

I mean there is just a link between the FEX and the server, and it can handle multiple subnet trafics, with the vNIC and the VN-TAG.

But what if I want to have two of those links, each having the 2 same subnet trafic to forward (so the 2 same VN-TAG on each link)? Is it possible (with a dual-port 10 GE FEX-adapter for example)? Can I group them in a port-channel, or they just can work in active/standby mode?

My wish is to provide redundancy for the servers with the FEX-adapter.

Thanks in advance,

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

Check with the server vendor.  If the servers support LACP, you can run it between the servers and the FEX.  You can bundle up to 8 links.

HTH

[Jeremy Dubrulle]

Thank you for the reply.

So a FEX-adapter can support up to 8 physical links  ?