CHAPTER 5
Configuring Virtual Port Channels
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Information About vPCs, page 65
• Guidelines and Limitations for vPCs, page 79
• Configuring vPCs, page 80
• Configuring the vPC Peer Switch, page 93
• Verifying the vPC Configuration, page 95
• vPC Example Configurations, page 101
• vPC Default Settings, page 105
Information About vPCs
vPC Overview
A virtual port channel (vPC) allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus devices
or Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders to appear as a single port channel by a third device (see the following figure).
The third device can be a switch, server, or any other networking device. You can configure vPCs in topologies
that include Cisco Nexus devices connected to Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders. A vPC can provide multipathing,
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