I'm am new to the whole datacenter design and I've recently taken over a data center set up. I'm trying to determine if my vPCs and port-channels are set up correctly. I've attached a drawing of the network set up. It seems pretty straight forward:
NIC teamed server with each NIC going to a separate FEX.
The FEX are straight through to the 5596s.
Using LACP on the switches and servers.
NX-OS 5.0(3)
My questions are 1) Is the FEX number only locally significant to the 5596 it's attached to? Should this number be the same or different on each 5596 or does it not matter? I haven't been able to find anything specifiying what this is supposed to be for this setup.
2) How can I verify the vPCs/portchannels are working properly?
Doing a 'show vpc' shows up/success on both switches.
'show port-channel summary' shows my channel as SU and my port as P.
Doing a 'show interface pXXX' shows my port-channel and vPC if I run the command on both 5596s but they each only show one member in the channel, which is the locally connected interface. I would think I'm supposed to see both interfaces channled together here.
If I take one interface down I don't get any messages on the other switch that the other side of the port-channel has dropped. It also seems like traffic isn't being equally distributed.
I hope this makes sense. I've been trying to figure this environment out for weeks. Just when I think I've got it, it doesn't act the way I'm expecting it to.
