Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch Guía De Diseño
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Figure 1. Designs 1 and 2
Table 2 compares the features of the two designs.
Table 2.
Comparison of Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series Designs
All Links Forwarding
Support for Fabric Extender Dual-
Homed Design
Homed Design
Support for PortChannel Teaming
from Servers
from Servers
Design 1
Yes
No
No
Design 2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Non-vPC Aggregation Layer
In addition to using these topologies, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series can be configured for vPC and connected to a
non-vPC aggregation layer as shown in Design 3 in Figure 2.
In Figure 2, PortChannels are configured from each aggregation-layer switch to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
peers, which results in a topology that is equivalent to that shown on the right side of the figure.