Hi Everyone, Thanks for the responses, I appreciate it.
Stephen, I will probably stick with the 5000 series, maybe just use 5010's since I have a pair at a facility I am shutting down, I will simply move them over. Ray, The TAC guy I was speaking with, said there might be a way to "trick" them, but I don't want to do something janky. Phil, Your correct I shouldn't be calling them switches. Thanks again everyone. Joe On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Phil Bedard <[email protected]> wrote: > So the first issue, and probably the root of it, is you are calling the > FEX a "switch", and it's not a switch. It doesn't do any local switching > itself and the FEX ports do not support running STP, so it really is meant > to connect to L3 devices. There is no way to disable BPDUGuard. > > If the switches are just homed to the FEX you could run a VPC and just > turn off STP on the downstream switch. But if you had say multiple > switches connected to eachother which then connected to the FEX that's not > going to work. The only alternative is use some other method to block > links like Flex links. > > Phil > > On 12/10/13, 7:56 PM, "Joseph Hardeman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi Everyone, > > > >I knew I should have come here first but I went with the word of a CCXX > >something or another (Director of IT) from a vendor and a couple links he > >sent me. After I explained the setup I was putting together and how > >everything needed to work together, he told me that the Nexus 2232PP > >Switch > >could do what I wanted and needed. > > > >I have a pair of 2232PP FEX switches that we just got to extend our 5000 > >series switches from one cage to another (I have never worked with the FEX > >Switches before, so I should have done better homework). We were going to > >use the pair of FEX switches to provide redundant links to additional > >switches from which I was going to connect to customer switches or > >firewalls. Which going through the initial config today on setting up the > >VPC port on say Eth100/1/1 for my first test switch, I got an error saying > >that the VPC could not be added that there was one already applied. > > > >I reached out to the TAC Contact I have that has helped me out this week, > >and he told me that the FEX Switches were never meant to connect to other > >switches and the BPDUGuard would shut down the ports to the switch shortly > >after the ports come up. And it was not just this model but any FEX > >Switch. > > > >So my question to you guys is, (drum roll please): > > > >Does anyone have a Nexus 2000 FEX Switch Pair doing VPC Port Channel to > >another switch instead of a host/server? And if you do how did you make > >it > >work. I am considering returning these switches as I can't use them right > >now and I really need a usable pair of switches for the 10G+ cage to cage > >connectivity and then 1 or 10G to either my switches or customer switches. > > Which my switches then step it down to either 100M or 10M if needed. > > > >Is there a FEX switch that will do this? (imagine the full mesh setup) > > > >routers -> 5000Switch -> FEX Switch -> 2960G or 3560G (for example) switch > >-> Possible other switching/firewall gear -> end system > > > >Can you recommend any other switch that can do what I want, or should I > >just get another pair of 5000 series switches? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful. > > > >Joe > >_______________________________________________ > >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/
