[c-nsp] Nexus / VPC - Management port "needed" in VPC?

[quinn snyder]

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 18:14, CiscoNSP List <CiscoNSP_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for clarifying Quinn - So on a pair of 3Ks, a "typical" VPC setup would be 2 x 10Gb links + "a" link(i.e. Management ports) for the keepalives?
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> And on a pair of 9Ks, 2 x 40Gb links, plus management port link?

not so much typical as 'sized for your use case'.
during failure scenarios, it is possible to have traffic transit the peer-link.  however -- it comes down to understanding your environment, sla, redundancy, etc.  while the minimum recommended links is (2) for the peer-link, this can scale and you'll need to dial this in for your situation.

playing in the lab and running through a reflective set of test cases is your best bet here.  obviously -- you'll need to extrapolate this to being under load as well. 

q. 

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