Nexus 5548UP Redundancy

[mikejhollis]

Hello,

I have two Nexus 5548UP switches, that will be utilized as shown in the attached network diagram.  What is the best way to achieve redundancy here with the nexus switches?  I want the Nexus switches to serve as the default gateway for the VM's.   Should I run HSRP between the two switches?  This way the gateway will remain the same if one would fail?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

[Mark Malone]

Hi

do you have a vpc domain setup between the nexus switches, if so then use a vpc on nexus side to each server and a standard port-channel on the server side back  , and run hsrp on the vlan interfaces , that will give you full redundancy in that setup

[mikejhollis]

So I"m not using fabric extenders, I'm just using two standalone 5548UPs.  Will it work the same way?

[Mark Malone]

Oh ok , yes it can still be done but I have only done it with fexs , here's a link with just 5ks showing it using vpc

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/12169051/vpc-status-down-between-nexus-5000-and-directly-connected-server

[Rick1776]

It does work, I've done it multiple times in a production network.