CISCO NEXUS VPC PRACTICAL SERIES

Learn to configure a Cisco Nexus VPC with keep alive and a peer link using member ports, after enabling the feature and creating the BBC domain for reliable inter-device connectivity.

Learn how global and per-channel consistency checks detect mismatches between VPC peers, identify type one and type two failures, and explain effects on BBCs and member reports with corrective measures.

Learn how spanning tree works in a vpc environment, where the primary device generates on designated ports and the secondary forwards over the peer link, and how convergence affects outages.

Explore how the VPC peer-switch feature uses a shared bridge MAC across primary and secondary devices to eliminate spanning-tree disruption during root bridge failures, provided both sides share identical priority.

Explain VPC loop avoidance in the BBC domain by detailing how primary, secondary, and orphan boards use FDA groups 256 and 257 to control broadcast flooding.

This lecture explains how hsrp and vpc enable active-active data planes with an active device controlling the MAC, plus control plane ownership and primary and secondary roles.

Explore the Cisco Nexus VPC peer-gateway feature, including how primary and secondary devices learn virtual MACs, forward traffic locally, avoid asymmetrical routing, and configure exclusions to prevent data-plane disruptions.

Explore VPC failure scenarios, including the primary and secondary device roles, link and member port shutdowns, and split-brain avoidance, keep-alive timers, and auto recovery.

Explore the Cisco Nexus VPC auto recovery feature and how it handles failure scenarios, including primary–secondary role reversal, BBC member ports and surveys restoration, and enabling auto recovery with timeouts.