Nexus vPC | Configuration on Real Cisco Nexus Switches

[@VijaySid-zl1jr]

Wonderful explanation with all important concepts and scenarios in short video

[@infosecteam9933]

One of the best vPC explanation, Great....Waiting for more videos or interested to join your class

[@NetworkDirection]

Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback and I am glad our video has been able to help you. Cheers

[@Baselope2]

Excellent refresher... been a few years since I did vPCs

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks!

[@usakarthikeyan]

nice presentation and with very straight forward in narration, without any confusion guidelines.

[@takuma000]

Thank you the videos offers a good and clear description and configuration of key aspects of the NXO Cisco Family. Merci

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks, glad you liked itt

[@NetworkDirection]

Lab files: www.patreon.com/posts/lab-basic-vpc-20748142 More info: networkdirection.net/Virtual+Port+Channels

[@m.jacobi6276]

So happy to find you❤️

[@NetworkDirection]

So happy you're here!

[@azardasa]

Very nice, and simple way to understand VPC... much appreciated.

[@NetworkDirection]

I’m really glad you liked it!

[@themuleify]

Great video but you should have continued to the end to show member ports are connected and the vpc and port channel are up

[@네트웍]

번역 기능이 있어 좋다 너무 훌륭한 강의다

[@qaisarqureshi9949]

Very simple and to the point cofnig of vPC with simple topology. Excellent Video and presentation.

[@NetworkDirection]

I'm glad you like it, thanks!

[@rajeshdotaniya9113]

You describe very well in videos Thanks for such stuff.

[@reg9096]

This along with your how VPC works video is an AWESOME introduction into the technology and the config. Is there more information on member ports and how they should be setup? For example, a windows server with Dual NIC?

[@Vishalbhosekar659]

Awesome and thanks. Vpc now preety clear for me...

[@jecalafi]

Excellent! Simple and precise!!

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks!

[@patelmj873]

Excellent Explanation Way....

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks!

[@himanshudwivedi1399]

Such an excellent explanation 🥳🥳

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks! I just realised how bad I sounded in these early videos 😬

[@vivek1992dwivedi]

Full of Useful content.

[@hhrid]

Perfecto!! helped a lot to configure my nexus setup... Thank you so much buddy!!

[@NetworkDirection]

You're welcome Hrid! Glad to help

[@roseamos7359]

awesome video. Thanks for your hard work

[@NetworkDirection]

You're very welcoem

[@shawn_8888]

Great explanation and easy to understand.

[@Tim.Farmlife]

Clean and precise. Good job.

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks Tim, really glad you liked it!

[@JIKID]

Great explanation. Thanks man. However, the very last step/command you run at the end of the video, you run the show vpc orphan-ports command. when i do that, it never finishes/loads. it just says its going through port database and to be patient. for you it was pretty quick but for me it never pulls up. any ideas?

[@mandeepsaini4404]

Good explanation, got everything. Thanks

[@khalid82atd]

very simple and effective good job

[@ajibolayusuf2057]

Love iT!!!!!

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks!

[@alfonsovaldez3361]

Thanks this helped me configure my vpc

[@wsullivan]

Excellent! keep em coming!

[@brucewilson4567]

Nice config overview. If you don't mind sharing - how did you configure Putty to highlight the syntax output? This would be helpful when configuring multiple groups of vPC peers!

[@NetworkDirection]

+Bruce Wilson That's a Nexus feature. Use 'terminal colour [persist]' to enable. I wish it were on ASA as well

[@NetworkDirection]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kF6ne6qFit-GsNE

[@superladis]

thank you for sharing, would you please comment what does the command " spanning-tree port type network" in the port-channel for vpc peer-link?

[@NetworkDirection]

This tells spanning-tree that there's another switch at the other end of the link, so it should look for BPDUs

[@Angela-dz6iw]

Great video!!!

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks

[@jessesmith9317]

Thank you for this video.

[@emilnaklicki6837]

Great video. Quick question. If my member ports are connecting another switch in trunk mode. How does Vlaning work? Do I have to allow every vlan on my domain on my port-channel and also allow those vlans on the VPC peers?

[@alitravel1001]

Fantastic explanation. Thnx a lot

[@NetworkDirection]

Glad you liked it 😎

[@NamLe-fl4sz]

From VietNam. Thanks

[@JosephMorgan-vx1ry]

fantastic!

[@ciscoglobalcertification1197]

excellent.

[@NetworkDirection]

Thank you!

[@akhilkamalakaran5155]

great explanation, thank you sir for made this video. very helpful . . .

[@mohmmedalhorany817]

thank you

[@NetworkDirection]

You're welcome!

[@diaphanoux]

Thanks for the video. Would it be too much trouble to explain how did you configure your putty to display different console colors and text colors?

[@NetworkDirection]

That's not putty unfortunately. That's config within the Nexus

[@CiscoPhipse]

Great video, nice and simple, just how I like it :-) Just a side note - How did you get the different colours in Putty? I've been trying to figure this out.

[@NetworkDirection]

The syntax colouring comes from the Nexus switch. Enable it with the 'terminal color' or 'terminal color persist' command. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to do this on other devices like ASA's or IOS routers

[@NetworkDirection]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kF6ne6qFit-GsNE

[@samsumrein7706]

Excellent Job !!

[@somykt]

Excellent video

[@alexwells2231]

very useful video thanks.

[@aladdin86932]

great video , thank you so much

[@thinhnguyenxuan9776]

Thank you very much, the tutorial is very helpful for me

[@NetworkDirection]

It's good to hear that it was helpful!

[@zhengsun252]

this is a very nice video, thanks for sharing

[@NetworkDirection]

Glad you like it!

[@varunthadepu]

Simple and excellent, thank you.... :)

[@rajendrai2680]

Thanq.............

[@kanesalingamtharmeswaran5809]

Mate, you deserved more views and appreciation. Please find a way to promote your channel.... Thank you.

[@NetworkDirection]

I would love to promote the channel, but it's expensive...

[@brunmorevanrensburg8588]

if you have Nexus 9300 4 of them and runing BGP evpn vxlan with VPC should you be runing VPC Routing or not

[@mustafafarhat907]

Thank you very very much :)

[@martsiro]

COOOL!! muchas gracias!!!

[@hemantbhagwat9038]

Great Awesome !!!

[@satishpatel3796]

You are awesome!

[@NetworkDirection]

I don't know if I'd go that far, but I appreciate it 🙂

[@lorenzocaponi7960]

great!

[@kool1311]

Great!

[@NetworkDirection]

Thanks!

[@indreek]

Can i somehow do it over not mgmt port? Like, how can i use port 47 and 48 for hartbeat? Do i need to create separate vrf?

[@NetworkDirection]

you sure can!

[@jamsQ89]

what is the expected downtime on a failover scenario?

[@tusharnaik4710]

good one

[@darrelstrickland6623]

I'm just wondering what 7 clowns didn't like this video. Great job!!!

[@NetworkDirection]

one's who don't like Cisco maybe? Thanks

[@jiminlee7817]

Thank you for the video. I tried to ping from switch 1 to the next one using mgmt 0 ip, but it didn't ping. I dont't understand why.

[@NetworkDirection]

Did you use the management VRF when pinging?

[@divyakumari3236]

Should the meber ports be same on both the switches and the ports used in Peer link, Like if we have used Eth1/53 and 54 in Sw1, DO we need to add Eth1/53 and 54 only on the second switch or any other port will work, I can bundle 1/37-38 ??

[@NetworkDirection]

I always try to match them, but no, they don’t need to be the same

[@11627joesmith]

Well done

[@NetworkDirection]

+Joseph Smith Thanks for the feedback. ASA multi mode coming soon if you're interested

[@xinlei9245]

nice, man~~~

[@NetworkDirection]

You're welcome

[@CapitaineWEB-FR]

Between the mgmt 0, is it a straight cable or crossover cable?

[@NetworkDirection]

They are SFP ports, so just twinax or fibre would be fine You could use the RJ45 SFP I guess, in which case I assume straight through would be ok, and auto-mdix would fix it up if there's a problem. I honestly don't remember the last time I needed to use a cross-over...

[@CapitaineWEB-FR]

Network Direction On our Cisco Nexus 3064-X, both management back port are Ethernet. That’s why I ask for the cable type :)

[@NetworkDirection]

Makes sense. The N3K’s are a little different to the other Nexus. I think straight through would be the way to go

[@CapitaineWEB-FR]

Network Direction I’ve been able to make it work today as your tutorial without any issues! I’m waiting for two x 40Gbp/s cable to have more output :) instead of two x 10Gbp/s. Also would like to move the keep-alive away from the mgmt 0. Straight cable is working for the mgmt 0 setup. Thank you very much for your videos and help! 👍🏻

[@NetworkDirection]

@@CapitaineWEB-FR This is fantastic news! Well done!

[@nageswar3977]

Superbbbbbbbbb

[@FabricioSolano]

Does the peer-link have to be in the same VRF as member ports?

[@NetworkDirection]

The peer-link is layer-2, just as the member ports would be. So, they're not in a VRF.

[@PlainCheesePizza]

How did you get putty to display diff colors like that ?

[@NetworkDirection]

Smoke and mirrors! Have a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kF6ne6qFit-GsNE

[@PlainCheesePizza]

Yeah I sniffed that out in the comment section, thank you. Wish there was a way to set on your console locally for any HW platform inside the Cisco realm, I really dig it. Great Video thought.

[@Vashork]

@@NetworkDirection Video is not available =(

[@NetworkDirection]

You're right, the URL changed. I have updated it

[@sabarivasanv4253]

do we need to give switchport command on interface Po15?

[@franciscosencion]

Good stuff man, keep up the great work!. Question: what tool do you use for animation?

[@NetworkDirection]

Depending on the video, I use some combination of PowerPoint (2d), fusion (3D), and shotcut (timeline)

[@franciscosencion]

Thanks!@@NetworkDirection

[@NetworkDirection]

You're welcome!

[@alanmotarueda7038]

What happens if I don't put VPC 10 in the portchannel?

[@ari_ghosh1]

Hello Mr Network, Wanted to check with you - are you using real Nexus 9000 or Nexus 9000v - I have tried to configure vPC on Nexus 9000v on 7.0.3.I5.2 but the lacp leg for the southbound device doesn't come up

[@lukerobertson01]

This is on a real 93180. I haven't tried it in VIRL on the 9000v yet

[@ari_ghosh1]

awesome thanks for gr8 work! please keep it up!

[@lukerobertson01]

Will do! I'm currently working on my CCDP. After I'm done with that I'm planning to do a video on how vPC works 'under the hood'. Interested?

[@NetworkDirection]

I think it will work in CML now too, not that I've tried

[@manump6583]

i have one doubt. Can i manage second switch or config the second switch from active switch. Like VSS????

[@NetworkDirection]

The two switches are managed separately as far as vPC is concerned. They don't share a control plane as in VSS

[@brunmorevanrensburg8588]

hi i have a problem if i do this VPC on my current config of vxlan my VXlan stops working ??????????!!!!!!!!!!help please

[@NetworkDirection]

In VXLAN you have loopback interfaces for BGP peering. When you add vPC, you need to make sure that you have a secondary IP on those loopbacks. The IP needs to be the same on both switches. I haven't done a video on VXLAN with vPC. May it's a good time to look into it.

[@mohamedaminecheloufi7978]

can't run feature lacp :(

[@Keepkip]

Ты что за лев брат! I have all the production network in my company down because of your video!!!! They are firing me now!!!

[@NetworkDirection]

I hope that's a joke 😬

[@Keepkip]

@@NetworkDirection kidding about firing part. When I typed no shutdown on port-channel 15, that's where the loop happened. All production network down for 30 minutes 😂

[@NetworkDirection]

@@Keepkip Well, I'm glad you haven't been fired!

[@JehanzaibAmin]

excellent