[c-nsp] Nexus vpc port channels between 5Ks and 7Ks

[Chris Evans]

Best answer..... YES

:)
On Sep 26, 2010 11:47 AM, "scott owens" <scottowens12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are cabling a mid-sized building to a pair of 7Ks and have a bit of a
> redundancy question -
> We bought two 7K X2 boards for this building and we plan on cabling our 7K
> to 7K vpc links using alternate boards for redundancy ( we have had a 32
> port 10Gb module fail in testing and don't plan on doing single anything)
.
> We have an even number of 6506s that we are going to connect to two Nexus
> 5Ks,each 6506 will connect to each 5K.
> 5K_1 will connect to 7K_1 and 7K_2, 5k_2 will connect to 7K_1 and 7K_2 as
> well.
> our kind of question is should we run parallel paths from each 5K to each
7K
> using both X2 modules ? This is the only connectivity to the X2 boards so
we
> do not have any port or fiber shortage, just need some more gbics.
>
> The reasoning to want to run parallel paths is that with a cable/gbic
> failure the traffic will not flow in the VDC/VPC/multichannel etherchannel
> fashion but rather will end up traversing links between the 7Ks and 5Ks in
> an "odd" fashion.
>
> any thoughts ?
>
> thank you,
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