Creating VPC's between 2 NExus 5548's

[dclee]

I am just about to setup my 2 Nexus 5548's in the

lab for VPc. I see that I have to setup an etherchannel using 2   10 gig ports for the Peer link and

I also have to setup a Peer keepalive.

Do I also have to burn a 10 gig port on both switches for this keepalive ?

I dont have any 1 gig ports on these switches.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

[Chad Peterson]

Hi Dave,

You can use the management ports for the keepalive link.  They can either be connected back to back, or through a management network.

Chad

[dclee]

Thanks Chad, I got it figured out. Swhen I setup the keepalive it defaulted to using the

management VRF that I had created. So all good.

Thanks again.

Dave

[Devavrat Oka]

The best way is to connect the mgmt0 ports to a CORE switch for out of band management. Also, when you configure the vrf context management, make sure you specify a route to the management subnet via vrf management.