Table Of Contents - Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Operation Manual

Table Of Contents

Document Conventions1
Related Documentation3
Obtaining Documentation And Submitting A Service Request3
Virtual Port Channel Operations5
Information About Vpc Operations5
Vpc Consistency Checks5
Type 1 And Type 2 Consistency Check Parameters6
Graceful Consistency Check7
Configuring Per-Vlan Consistency Checks9
Identifying Inconsistent Vpc Configurations10
Bypassing A Vpc Consistency Check When A Peer Link Is Lost12
Configuring Changes In Vpc Topologies13
Fabric Extender14
Replacing A Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch15
Before You Begin15
Replacing A Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender17
Replacing A Fabric Extender In A Dual-Homed Fabric Extender Vpc Topology17
Replacing A Fabric Extender In A Single-Homed Fabric Extender Vpc Topology17
Installing A New Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender18
Vpc Failure Recovery18
Vpc Member Port Failure18
Vpc Peer Keepalive Link Failure20
Vpc Peer Switch Failure21
Vpc Peer Link Failure Followed By A Peer Keepalive Link Failure21
Vpc Keepalive Link Failure Followed By A Peer Link Failure21
Tracing Traffic Flow In A Vpc Topology22
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Layer 3 And Vpc Operations25
Vpc And First Hop Redundancy Protocol25
Arp Processing With Vpc26
Layer 3 Forwarding For Packets To A Peer Switch Mac Address26
Improved Convergence With A Vpc Topology And Layer 3 Routing28
Vpc Peer Link Failure29
Layer 3 Module Failure29
Connecting To A Router In A Vpc Topology30
Dedicated Vrf For A Keepalive Interface31
Vpc Consistency Check For Layer 3 Parameters33
Multicast Interaction In A Vpc Topology33
Unsupported Multicast Topology33
Multicast Routing Table Size34
Faster Convergence With The Prebuilt Source Tree34
Using A Vpc Switch As A Designated Router (Pim Dr)36
Dr Election And Source Registration36
Multicast Data Forwarding36
Software Upgrade And Downgrade Impact38
Show Install All Impact Kickstart38
Show Spanning-Tree Issu-Impact39