Does catalyst support vPC?
It is supported on the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switch families. The last option is one of its own, a little bit different, is vPC or virtual Port Channel. That’s supported on the Nexus switches and rather than stacking the switches together and them being managed as if they’re a single switch.
What is the difference between vPC and EtherChannel?
vPC (Virtual Port-Channel), also known as multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) is a feature on the Cisco Nexus switches that provides the ability to configure a Port-Channel across multiple switches (i.e. vPC peers). However, the key difference between vPC and VSS is that VSS creates a single logical switch.
What is Cisco VSL?
VSL is used to carry on proprietary encapsulated frames also control plane messages to form a single device, one supervisor the active one controls both chassis with second supervisor acting as hot standby as in a single chassis with two supervisors.
What is the difference between vPC and etherchannel?
Is there a difference between VPC and EVPC?
The reason for the difference between vPC and EvPC is due to limitations in the Nexus 5000 platform (ie the 5010 and 5020) that prevent it from supporting EvPC. The Nexus 5500 platform supports EvPC and does not require any specific FEX model to make it work. Update July 23 2015: The Nexus 5600 also supports EvPC.
What’s the difference between a VSS and a virtual port channel?
Virtual Port Channel. A Virtual Port Channel (vPC) is an enhancement to MEC that allows for the same sort of functionality — building a port channel across two switches — without the need for Stackwise or VSS. Both Stackwise and VSS go far beyond just port channels: They actually combine the control and management planes…
What does a virtual port channel ( VPC ) do?
A Virtual Port Channel (vPC) is an enhancement to MEC that allows for the same sort of functionality — building a port channel across two switches — without the need for Stackwise or VSS.
Which is the logical switch in VPC + network?
The magic of vPC+ is that the member switches logically instantiate a virtual switch (SwitchID 4) which sits between them and the CE switch. This logical switch is advertised to the rest of the FabricPath network as being the edge switch where the CE switch is connected.