Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Nx-Os Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.1(3)N1(1 - Cisco nexus 5000 series Configuration Manual

Configuring Virtual Port Channels
Single Homed Fabric Extender vPC Configuration Example
The following example shows how to configure the single homed Fabric Extender vPC topology using the
default VRF to carry the peer-keepalive messages on switch CiscoNexus-1 as shown in following figure:
Figure 12: vPC Configuration Example
Note The following example only shows the configuration of CiscoNexus-1 which is connected to the Fabric
Extender NX-2000-100. You must repeat these steps on its vPC peer, CiscoNexus-2, which is connected
to the Fabric Extender NX-2000-101.
Before You Begin
Ensure that the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders NX-2000-100 and NX-2000-101 are attached and
online.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. Enable vPC and LACP.
2. Enable SVI interfaces, create the VLAN and SVI to be used by the vPC peer-keepalive link.
3. Create the vPC domain and add the vPC peer-keepalive link in the default VRF.
4. Configure the vPC peer link as a two port Etherchannel.
5. Configure the Fabric Extender NX-2000-100.
6. Configure the fabric EtherChannel links for the Fabric Extender NX-2000-100.
7. Configure a vPC server port on on the Fabric Extender NX-2000-100.
8. Save the configuration.
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