Best answer..... YES
:) On Sep 26, 2010 11:47 AM, "scott owens" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We are cabling a mid-sized building to a pair of 7Ks and have a bit of a > redundancy question - > We bought two 7K X2 boards for this building and we plan on cabling our 7K > to 7K vpc links using alternate boards for redundancy ( we have had a 32 > port 10Gb module fail in testing and don't plan on doing single anything) . > We have an even number of 6506s that we are going to connect to two Nexus > 5Ks,each 6506 will connect to each 5K. > 5K_1 will connect to 7K_1 and 7K_2, 5k_2 will connect to 7K_1 and 7K_2 as > well. > our kind of question is should we run parallel paths from each 5K to each 7K > using both X2 modules ? This is the only connectivity to the X2 boards so we > do not have any port or fiber shortage, just need some more gbics. > > The reasoning to want to run parallel paths is that with a cable/gbic > failure the traffic will not flow in the VDC/VPC/multichannel etherchannel > fashion but rather will end up traversing links between the 7Ks and 5Ks in > an "odd" fashion. > > any thoughts ? > > thank you, > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
