As you should know (simplified rule): Whenever the vPC peer link goes down the vPC secondary switch brings down all its connected vPC ports, assuming those vPCs are up in the vPC primary switch. This means that if you have non-vPC-connected hosts on your vPC secondary switch then those ports are left up and traffic […]
Month: June 2012
MST and Private VLAN Synchronize
A small example about the “private-vlan synchronize” command in MST configuration mode (vlan 100 = primary VLAN, vlan 101 = secondary (isolated) VLAN): n5k-1(config-mst)# show Pending MST Configuration Name [test] Revision 0 Instances configured 3 Instance Vlans mapped ——– ——————————————————————— 0 1000-4094 1 1-100 2 101-999 ——————————————————————————- These secondary vlans are not mapped to the […]
Private VLANs on Nexus 5000 Series
So it was a usual day in the wonderful world of networking and projects. Then I was suddenly lost in the Private VLANs. You know, the feature that has existed a long time in Cisco switches but still there are some known and unknown limitations in using it. Let’s talk about PVLANs. First the basics […]
Importing Configuration in the Switch Profile
In an earlier post (Dual-Homed FEXes and Switch Profiles) I wrote about the switch profiles and how to use them to configure dual-homed FEXes. I mentioned that it is possible to import existing configurations into the switch profiles. Now I was really attempting it in practice. When importing configurations I constantly struck myself to the […]