Configuring A Private Vlan; Enabling Private Vlans; Configuring A Vlan As A Private Vlan - Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring a Private VLAN

• You must have already created the VLAN before you can assign the specified VLAN as a private VLAN.
• You must enable PVLANs before the switch can apply the PVLAN functionality.
• You cannot disable PVLANs if the switch has any operational ports in a PVLAN mode.
• Enter the private-vlan synchronize command from within the Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) region
• You cannot connect a second switch to a promiscuous or isolated PVLAN trunk. The promiscuous or
• Private VLANs do not provide port mode support for port channels.
• Private VLANs do not provide port mode support for virtual port channels (vPCs) interfaces.
Configuring a Private VLAN

Enabling Private VLANs

You must enable PVLANs on the switch to use the PVLAN functionality.
The PVLAN commands do not appear until you enable the PVLAN feature.
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Procedure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
This example shows how to enable the PVLAN feature on the switch:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# feature private-vlan

Configuring a VLAN as a Private VLAN

To create a PVLAN, you first create a VLAN, and then configure that VLAN to be a PVLAN.
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definition to map the secondary VLANs to the same MST instance as the primary VLAN.
isolated PVLAN trunk is supported only on host-switch.
Command or Action
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# feature private-vlan
switch(config)# no feature
private-vlan
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Enables the PVLAN feature on the switch.
(Optional)
Disables the PVLAN feature on the switch.
You cannot disable PVLANs if there are
Note
operational ports on the switch that are in
PVLAN mode.
Configuring Private VLANs
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