Advantage of vNIC redundancy pair

[christopher.eakin]

Can some one give me an advantage of using a vNIC redundancy pair template versus just have two vNIC template.  I've not been able to find much info.

Thanks.

[padramas · Accepted solution]

Hello,

On a high level, it eases out managing vNICs or VHBA pair which needs to have same set of configuration

Cisco UCS Manager Network Management Guide, Release 3.1 - Network-Related Policies [Cisco UCS Manager] - Cisco

For example, consider blades with two vNICs where each vNIC traffic needs to go through different FI path.

With vNIC template redundancy pair feature, secondary vNIC template synchronize the shared properties from primary templates and reduces error ( MTU, vLAN , etc ) between two vNICs.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks

Padma

[cowboycraig73]

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[cowboycraig73]

After a new search found this, and it's helpful:

A "redundancy pair" duplicates the vNIC on one FI to the other FI on failure.

The following configurations are shared when using template pairs:
• Network Control Policy
• QoS Policy
• Template Type
• Connection Policies
• VLANs
• MTU
• Statistics Threshold Policy

The following configurations are not shared when using template pairs:
• Fabric ID
• CDN Source
• MAC Pool
• Description
• Pin Group Policy

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-central/GUI-User-Guides/Network-Mgmt/1-5/b_CiscoUCSCentral_NetworkManagementGuide_1-5/b_CiscoUCSCentral_NetworkManagementGuide_1-5_chapter_0100.pdf