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Ah great, thank you sir, much appreciated!
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Ah great, thank you sir, much appreciated!

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No worries. &nbsp;It's fairly simple once you get your head wrapped around the fact that it's kind of a VSS lite. &nbsp;Good luck.
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No worries.  It's fairly simple once you get your head wrapped around the fact that it's kind of a VSS lite.  Good luck.

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Need some input from Cisco gurus. I'm planning on deploying a pair of Nexus 3524x switches for our server environment. I'm going to configure vPC between both pairs of switches, but I'm wondering about the server side of things. We are going to implement ESXi hosts and a Netapp SAN, and I'm wondering if I need to configure vPCs to the new servers and Netapp or would a standard port-channel with LACP work?
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Hey Everyone,

Need some input from Cisco gurus. I'm planning on deploying a pair of Nexus 3524x switches for our server environment. I'm going to configure vPC between both pairs of switches, but I'm wondering about the server side of things. We are going to implement ESXi hosts and a Netapp SAN, and I'm wondering if I need to configure vPCs to the new servers and Netapp or would a standard port-channel with LACP work?

vPC question with regards to VMWare hosts

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

Cisco

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.