N9k vPC and UCS C-series with iSCSI

[mansolo44]

Hello everyone. We have a setup with a few UCS C220 servers connected to a pair of Nexus 9k over the VIC cards. Each 10GE links carries multiple VLANs and we have a few Standard switches on vSphere6.0.

Nexus1                Nexus2

    |                            |

    | -------UCS-------- |

The same VLANs are trunked on both links to each N9Ks using Port channels in mode ON (since we are using a standard vswitch) and using IP hash NIC teaming load balancing. On the Nexus 9000s, we use vPCs, one per UCS server.

Any comments on this design? Does this meet best practices? Thank you for your input.

BR.

[Wes Austin · Accepted solution]

Here is the best practices documentation for C-series VIC connectivity:

UCS C-Series Rack Servers VIC Connectivity Options

Wes