Nexus 5548 to UCS-C series network connectivity.

[mjawadsiddiqui]

Hi There,

I am new to nexus world, mainly telecom side. I have a situation where a vendor like to deploy two Cisco UCS-C series servers for voice deployment.

Each UCS C240 M3 server has 4 NICs, 2 nics bonded 802.1q will connect to primary nexus 5k switch and other two bonded will connect to secondary nexus switch. we have a vPC domain and no FEXes so we have to connect these two servers directly to Nexus 5ks.

My question is it possible with teamed nics to coonect to 2 different nexus switches?

Can anyone guide me how can I achieve this design? see attached.

Thanks Much

[richbarb · Accepted solution]

Hello there,

It's perfectly possible to do that.

Look at this quick configuration guide:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/configuration_guide_c07-543563.html

Any doubts, let me know.

Richard

[mizhang]

It will also depend on the Server network settings such as OS, software switch flavor and NIC teaming option on the server.

x- if you run ESXi, then you may check out the following KB article. 

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004088

x- if you use N1Kv, then you can use LACP or static port-channeling, but be sure to make it consistent on the upstream switches.

hope it helps.

Michael