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Jason Sinclair · 05-13-2015

We just upgraded our core switch to a Nexus 9396, which is connected to dual UCS 6248 FI's and also individually to some Dell R710's with a dual 10Gb Ethernet card. When connecting these standalone servers with an etherchannel VPC, the management IP ...

Jason Sinclair · 08-28-2013

I recently changed my global chassis connectivity policy to 1 link with port channel configuration. I originally had 4 links connected to each IOM, but wanted to go down to 2. I re-acknowledged the chassis after making the change and disabling the ot...

Jason Sinclair · 09-10-2015

Anytime. Let me know if you need anything else.

Jason Sinclair · 09-10-2015

Here is our standard switch configuration (same on both switches). The standard switch has both adapters as active with default settings.interface Ethernet1/3 description ESX1 switchport mode trunk spanning-tree port type edge trunkHere is the con...

Jason Sinclair · 09-10-2015

For a standard switch, no. I have mine setup with the defaults of "Route based on originating virtual port ID" and "Link status only" for load balancing and failover detection.

Jason Sinclair · 09-10-2015

I have it running with no portchannels or VPC. vSphere takes care of the redundancy and failover. I do have some hosts using the distributed switches, and for those I setup a true LACP active/active using VPC and that works well.

Jason Sinclair · 05-13-2015

That worked! I did some testing and watched through the ESXi console as I enabled and disabled links. Failover and redundancy worked well. I also didn't see any port flapping messages on the Nexus. I can live with this..these aren't heavy production ...

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Nexus 9396 VPC with VMware ESXi 5.5 Standard Switch

Fabric Port Channel - Added a server port need to remove it

Anytime. Let me know if you

Here is our standard switch

For a standard switch, no. I

I have it running with no

That worked! I did some