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200-155 · Question #102

Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is migrating the existing switching infrastructure to a proposed model. Which technology is enabled on the Cisco Nexus switches to support this migration to…

The correct answer is C. VPC. Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a Cisco Nexus technology that allows two switches to appear as a single logical device to downstream devices, enabling active-active EtherChannel connections for high availability and bandwidth.

Cisco Nexus Switching Platforms

Question

Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is migrating the existing switching infrastructure to a proposed model. Which technology is enabled on the Cisco Nexus switches to support this migration to its future status?

Exhibit

200-155 question #102 exhibit

Options

  • APAgP
  • BVSS
  • CVPC
  • DFCoE

How the community answered

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  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    92% (45)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a Cisco Nexus technology that allows two switches to appear as a single logical device to downstream devices, enabling active-active EtherChannel connections for high availability and bandwidth.

APAgP

Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) is a Cisco proprietary protocol for negotiating EtherChannels between a single pair of devices and does not provide multi-chassis link aggregation for redundancy across two separate switches.

BVSS

Virtual Switching System (VSS) is a Cisco technology primarily used on Catalyst switches to combine two physical switches into one logical switch, but it is not typically used on Nexus switches for this purpose.

CVPCCorrect

Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a virtualization technology on Cisco Nexus switches that allows two Nexus switches to act as a single logical switch for downstream devices. This enables active-active EtherChannel connections from servers to both Nexus switches, eliminating spanning tree blocked ports and providing high bandwidth and resiliency in a data center migration.

DFCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a technology for encapsulating Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet and is used for storage networking convergence, not for general switching infrastructure migration or multi-chassis link aggregation.

Concept tested: Cisco Nexus Virtual Port-Channel (vPC)

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/configuration/guide/cli_rel_4_0_1a/n5k_cli_config/vPC.html

Topics

#VPC#network migration#high availability#Nexus

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