Nexus 7K No Switchport Command Available

[nsmith5]

I created new VDCs.  Since I have done so, there is not switchport command under the interface configuration.

The interesting this is that it is available on the admin VDC, but not the new VDC I created.  I cannot create a peer VPC Peer link between my 2 Nexus switches.  I did allocate ports to the new VDC and I did verify the enabled feature are the same.

Any ideas why the switchport command is not available?

TIA!!

[Reza Sharifi]

Did you allocate the interfaces from the admin vdc for the newly created vdc?

So, let say you want to use e1/1 and e1/2 for vpc peer link.  (This is assuming you have blade 1 allocated to the new vdc)

What happens when you try this:

config t

inter e1/1-2

swichport

HTH

[nsmith5]

Hello HTH,

Yes I allocated the VDC using the admin VDC.  I found your example useful.  I tried the range and it worked.  I then realized that I previously created a port-channel and the physical interfaces.  The physical interfaces of the group was where I was trying the command  I tried switchport command on the port-chanel it's self and it worked.

I am not used to eh the NX-OS and things are a bit different.  Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!!

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Glad to help.  Here is good document on creating vPC peer link between 2 Nexus devices:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/layer2/Cisco_Nexus_5000_Series_NX-OS__chapter8.html#concept_FABFA52F7AA74609915523DD0D51C8B1

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Thanks,