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franjime Cisco Employee 01-07-2013 07:59 AM

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Seven, neighbor command

If you are connecting the Nexus 2000s to the Nexus 5000s using port-channels, you will want to set 'pinning
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max-links 1'.  If you have it set to another value, I believe the NX-OS will throw an error when configuring the
port-channel.

This is a good document describing the connectivity options between Nexus 2000 and 5000:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/C07-572829-
01_Design_N5K_N2K_vPC_DG.pdf

Let us know if you need further clarification!

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micturne Enthusiast 01-07-2013 07:34 AM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

Hello Seven,

Thanks for posting and welcome to the community.  One of our subject matter experts should be able to come
up with an answer for you on this relatively quickly. 

-Mike

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franjime Cisco Employee 01-07-2013 07:59 AM

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Seven,

If you are connecting the Nexus 2000s to the Nexus 5000s using port-channels, you will want to set 'pinning
max-links 1'.  If you have it set to another value, I believe the NX-OS will throw an error when configuring the
port-channel.

This is a good document describing the connectivity options between Nexus 2000 and 5000:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/C07-572829-
01_Design_N5K_N2K_vPC_DG.pdf

Let us know if you need further clarification!

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a7_seven7 Beginner 01-14-2013 12:07 AM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

tnx frank for your reply

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jjohnston1127 Rising star 01-07-2013 08:52 PM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

If you are using a portchannel with 4 uplinks, you cannot control which link traffic will take.  The load-balancing
algorithm configured on the portchannel will handle that for you.  In your case, pinning max-links 1 is
acceptable. 

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 a7_seven7 Beginner 01-14-2013 12:09 AM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

tnx for your reply

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Devavrat Oka Beginner 08-29-2013 09:04 PM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

Too old to chime in... but it might help.

Pinning max-links <2-4> comes into play when you do static pinning. i.e. the FETs (fabric extender transceivers
or links between 2K and parent switch) are not in a port-channel.

For a 48 port FEX:

pinning max-links 1 : 1 group of 48 hosts to 1 FET links

pinning max-links 2 : 2 groups of 24 hosts to 2 FET links

pinning max-links 3 : 3 groups of 18 hosts to 3 FET links

pinning max-links 4 : 4 groups of 12 hosts to 4 FET links

So, all 48 ports will be associated with 1 FET if 1 uplink is used and max-links is 1. So subscription ratio will be 48 * 1 gbps per 10 gbps
uplink : 48:10 = 4.8:1

For max-links 2, subscription: 24:20 = 1.2:1

 So, to sum it up, a good practice is to use a port-channel for a FEX uplink. A better option depending on
whether you have a 5K or a 7K is to use a vPC as an uplink.

HTH,
Dev

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senatoredu Beginner 09-21-2016 07:26 AM

Re: confusing about command "pinning max-links 1"

pinning max-links 3 : 3 groups of 16 hosts to 3 FET link  (16 not 18)

nice explanation, this helped

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