Nexus 6K and Microsoft NLB

[Patrick Colbeck]

Hi

I need to support Microsoft NLB in muticast mode on a pair of Nexus 6Ks. I have looked at the example on CCO but that it is for a 7K and on the 6K the command:

layer-2 multicast lookup mac

is not available. I saw a another post and a feature request to add this support to the 6K and the feature request seems to indicate it is in 7.x NX-OS for the 6K. I have upgraded to the latest 7.0.2 but the command is still not there.

Is it configured in a different way on a 6K or is multicast NLB still not supported ?

Thanks

Pat

[Leo Laohoo]

Here, read this:  Microsoft Unified Communications Load Balancer Deployment

MS do NOT recommend using the MS-based NLB.  The above link is THE MS official documentation recommending using third-party NLB instead of MS NLB.

[Patrick Colbeck]

Well yes and I wouldn't recommend MS NLB either but I don't get to decide in this case.