What is vPC in Nexus 9k?

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What is vPC in Nexus 9k?

Posted in Cisco Data Center. Cisco virtual Port Channel (vPC) is a virtualization technology, launched in 2009, which allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus Series devices to appear as a single port channel to a third endpoint.

What is vPC in Cisco Nexus?

vPC (Virtual Port Channel) is the Cisco Proprietary feature that is only working on Cisco Nexus Components. vPC use to make Nexus devices logically single devices for the end host or devices. vPC is also known as Multi-chassis EtherChannel (MEC).

What is vPC and VDC in Nexus?

The Virtual Device Contexts (VDC) allows a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch to be logically segmented into four different virtual switches (device contexts). The logical separation of single Nexus 7000 into multiple logical devices provides the following benefits: Administration and management separation.

How do I set up vPC?

Build Out the Rest of Your VPC

  1. Create a (VPC) Network.
  2. Create and Attach an Internet VPC Gateway.
  3. Create a Public Subnet.
  4. Create Security Group for NAT Server.
  5. Create a Custom Route Table.
  6. Create an Elastic IP Address for the NAT.
  7. Create and Launch a NAT Host Instance.
  8. Build Out the Rest of Your VPC.

How does vPC work on Nexus?

Virtual Port Channel (VPC) ties two Nexus 7K or 5K switches together by doing a great job of spoofing Layer 2 (L2), including STP BPDU (Spanning Tree hellos) and FHRP (First Hop Routing Protocol — HSRP, VRRP, GLBP) behavior. In terms of the diagram below, you can add the port-channel to switch C.

How do I check my vPC?

To verify vPCs using the CLI, perform one of these tasks:

  1. Purpose. Command.
  2. show running-config vpc. Checks the status of the vPCs.
  3. show vpc peer-keepalive. Verifies that the vPC peers have the identical type-1 parameters.
  4. show vpc consistency-parameters.
  5. show tech-support vpc.
  6. show port-channel summary.

How do I access VPC?

You can connect to your VPC through a virtual private network (VPN), AWS Direct Connect (DX), a VPC peering connection, a VPC endpoint, ClassicLink, an internet gateway, a network address translation (NAT) gateway, or a NAT instance. The best option depends on your specific use case and preferences.

How do I create a VPC subnet?

To add a new subnet to your VPC, you must specify an IPv4 CIDR block for the subnet from the range of your VPC. You can specify the Availability Zone in which you want the subnet to reside. You can have multiple subnets in the same Availability Zone.