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Best practices to interconnect ucs platform to nexus 7k vpc

jsotooplk
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hi,

I apreciate the help you can provide me, to know which are the best practices to interconnect  my cisco ucs platform through a vpc connection, i have the following platform:

2 cisco 6140xp fabrics

11 cisco 5108 chassis

70 cisco b230m2 blades

1.4 (3l) ucsm firmware version (next to be upgraded through 2.0 or the best new release that cisco recommend us)

I need to know how is the process that means interconnect both platforms, including activate fabric ports, and the configuration for it.\

Searching, i could find this whitepaper,(http://bradhedlund.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/n7k-ucs-whitepaper/Nexus7K-UCS-connectivity.pdf )but i cannot see any configuration of the only part i need to configure, that is the ucs vpc configuration through a couple of nexus 7k

i'll be waiting for your helpful reponse.

I attach the topology.

Thanks.

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padramas
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hello Jesus,

In short, FI in end-host mode with vPC uplinks to N7K is recommended.

From FI perspective, we configure port-channel on each FI device where the links physically connect to different N7K switches.

More information is available here

Connectivity Solutions for the Cisco Unified Computing System

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/white_paper_c11-623265.html

HTH

Padma

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