Guidelines And Limitations For Gir - Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Configuration Manual

Guidelines and Limitations for GIR

"primary" switch. After the connection to "primary" switch has been established, bring down FEXs of FG2
and then put the "secondary" switch in maintenance mode.
Figure 6: Sample Topology
Note Use the fex-group name command to create a FEX group. Use the fex range command to add or remove
a FEX from the FEX-group. Use the system fex-group name shutdown command to shut down a FEX
group. Use theno system fex-group name shutdown command to bring up a FEX group.
Guidelines and Limitations for GIR
• Custom maintenance profile has to be used for custom topologies and protocols that are not supported
• Before starting with maintenance, ensure that the switch is not attracting any data traffic after the switch
• Use the system mode maintenance always-use-custom-profile command when using custom profiles
• Snapshot information is not copied automatically to the standby supervisor in a dual supervisor system.
• GIR may not provide zero application traffic loss for certain topologies and configurations.
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by automatic or system-generated profiles.
has been put in maintenance mode. You can use counters and statistics to ensure that there is no data
traffic on the switch.
to ensure that the custom profile is not overwritten by the system-generated profile.
Configuring GIR (Cisco NX-OS Release 7.3(0)N1(1))
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