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Cisco Nexus N5K for DellEMC Unity 300

My customer has 1 pair of Cisco N5K configured with VPC.

I going to deploy 1 DellEMC Unity 300 storage to their infra. The Unity 300 will serve as their NFS server.
The proposed interface configuration is LACP on Unity 300.
which mean from SPA, I will have 1 connection to their first N5K switch and another connection to their second N5K.

I just want to know is this doable? from what I understand, VPC is 2 separated switch unlike stacked.

thanks
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Predrag Jovic
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vPC are 2 different switches, but connecting switches in vPC permits LACP (MultiChannel EtherChannel (MCEC)) since vPC switches appear as one device to downstream devices.
You can read more about it - Cisco NX-OS Software Virtual PortChannel: Fundamental Concepts
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Does it meant I still can configure port-channel LACP on from 2 N5K switches?
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Predrag Jovic
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If they are configured in vPC then - Yes.
Please check configuration guide - Virtual PortChannel Quick Configuration Guide
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Wissam
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Make sure that vpc domain status is consistent
(Show vpc domain)
And you use the same vpc number under both switches when configuring the portchannel
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