Nexus 5k single homed

[afsharki2]

Hello,

We currently have a single-homed fex topology consisting of 2 N5ks with 2 N2ks (image attached).  We are looking to purchase a new ucs c220 server to connect by NIC teaming to the 2 N5ks.  Usually every time I look at online guides for how to do this, everyone seems to connect the servers by dual NICS to the n2ks and not the n5ks.  The reason I want to connect to the N5ks is because I want 10GB links, which our N2ks don't provide.  Is this possible to do this?  Also, is their a guide that can help me configure my dual NIC on my server to make this happen?

  The image I have attached shows our toplogy.  And that server in the drawing is how I want to connect my server.

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Connecting the UCS server directly to the 5ks using 10Gig should not be an issue.  Put both physical links in a Portchannel and configured the Portchannel as vpc. You can use LACP as the protocol.

example:

interface port-channel100
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 5,10,20
vpc 100

interface Ethernet1/1
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 5,10,20
channel-group 100 mode active

Do the same for the other physical interfaces.

HTH

[afsharki2]

Thanks for the response. Are their special configurations that happen on the server side? Like in the OS layer?

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

I am not sure what you need to config on the server side.

HTH