Common setup of vPC is setup peer-link and heartbeat link between 2 unit of N5K switches. FEX switch will have uplink to N5K-1 and N5K-2 , with vPC configure.
I have very unusual question.
Can we setup vPC with only single N5K? and N2K FEX only connect to N5K-1.
reason is the secondary N5K-2 is not availalble now, but will add in N5K-2 in future.
But I want to do pre-configuration on N5K-1, the vPC configuration.
So when N5K-2 is available , I can just connect (heartbeat & peer link) N5K-2 to N5K-1 , then configure vPC on N5K-2. N2K then add anohter uplink to N5K-2.
When hearbeat & peerling is up then N5K-2 will resume as secondary vPC. Without have to change/add the vPC configuration on N5K-1
Today I tried configure N5K-1 with vPC to N2K FEX. But the vPC won't come up.
fex 100
pinning max-links 1
description "fex100-1"
vpc domain 100
role priority 100
peer-keepalive destination 172.24.97.11 source 172.24.97.10
peer-config-check-bypass
delay restore 15
auto-recovery
interface port-channel1
description vPC peer-link
switchport mode fabricpath
spanning-tree port type network
vpc peer-link
interface port-channel100
switchport mode fex-fabric
fex associate 100
vpc 100
interface Ethernet1/9
description fex100-1
switchport mode fex-fabric
fex associate 100
channel-group 100