Netbackup Appliance support for VPC (Virtual Port Channel

[nick80]

Hi,

We have new Network infratructure being implemented where the traditional method of stacking switches to allow us to LACP across multiple switches, has been replaced with a new NEXUS 9000 setup which now uses something call VPC (Virtual Port Channelling).

I dont know much about this but have been asked by the Technical Architects to confirm that the VPC is supported by the Netbackup appliances?

Our appliances are 5230 at version 2.6.0.2 (7.6.0.2)

Hopefully someone has come across this before and can help ?

Thanks

Nick

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Hi Nick,

Don't know much about it but read this on Cisco site.

Virtual PortChannel Technology

Virtual PortChannels (vPCs) allow links that are physically connected to two different Cisco® switches to appear to a third downstream device to be coming from a single device and as part of a single PortChannel. The third device can be a switch, a server, or any other networking device that supports IEEE 802.3ad PortChannels.

The appliance already supports this so I would assume that it would not cause a problem. Having said that there seems to be quite a few configurations that are possible with VPC so that might influence it.