What Is Vpc Role
What exactly should be done to change the functional role of nexus swi.
What is vpc role. To preempt manually the operational primary role for a vpc peer device administrator must perform following procedure. The vpc peer link is a standard 802 1q layer 2 trunk which potentially carries all vlans. Log in to the peer device you want to change to operational primary role and configure role priority with a lower value than the other peer device.
Instances behave as if they were on the same private network. The third device can be a cisco nexus 2000 series fabric extender or a switch server or any other networking device. The vpc peer link also carries the critical cfs cisco fabric services traffic which is marked with a cos value of 6.
However we have the hsrp as active for all the vlans on the switch which is vpc role as primary and operational as secondary a. Vpc peering is a networking connection that allows you to connect one vpc with another vpc through a direct network route using private ip addresses. Displays the peer status role of the local device vpc system mac address and system priority and mac address and priority for the local vpc device.
It also carries regular control plane traffic such as hsrp hellos stp bpdus etc. Amazon vpc supports the processing storage and transmission of credit card data by a merchant or service provider and has been validated as being compliant with payment card industry pci data security standard dss. Vpc role is nonpreemptive so vpc operational role is the most relevant of the 2 information.
You can peer vpc s with other aws accounts as well as other vpcs in the same account. Vpc role also defines a set of actions to be taken by vpc primary and vpc secondary in response to vpc peer link down situation. To manually configure a system priority for the virtual port channel vpc domain use the system priority command.
For hsrp in a nexus configuration whilst you may see active standby listen operationally this is the control plane functionality. To restore the default system. Vpc role is showing like below.