Path failure failover/port channel cisco ucs 240 vic adapter.

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I am a newbie to the filed. We have a cisco ucs 240 m5 server with VIC adapter. We want to configure network failover. Infra setup is : port channel is disabled on cisco ucs server, port 1 of server is connected to sw1 and port 3 is connected to sw2. Both the links belong to same access network. No configuration is done on switch side. What I want to achieve is failover if port 1 of server is down then port 3 up. So that we don't loose connection. I need this to be done on ucs server level. Yes its possible via port channel port 1 and 2 becomes a single port but that needs to be connected on the same switch and its not possible on our scenario(need to achieve switch redundancy, single switch failover is not an option, also only 2 ports are available to use).Also I don't think we can achieve port channel via different switch i.e. if port 1 and 2 is connected to different switch. Is there any other options via which I can achieve failover on Cisco UCS server level not on OS level. Can Nic teaming/bonding be done on server level? Can the created vNIC(with two separate uplink) be bind together to form a new vNIC.

Sorry for the bad explanation.

[Steven Tardy · Accepted solution]

There is an old doc which is still accurate.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/117637-technote-UCS-00.html

Don't think this doc was updated for VIC 1400 (which it sounds like you have when saying port 1 and port 3) but still works.

The configuration somewhat depends on the OS and the use case and topology and if you want aggregated bandwidth.

The VIC (hardware) won't port-channel like you want but the OS can be configured to do so following the linked guide.