Nexus 9k VPC (back to back) and FHRP setup in 2 data centers
This post describes the setup of VPCs on a data center interconnect and HSRP as the first hop redundancy protocol for the VLAN interfaces (SVIs). This configuration has been performed on a Nexus 93180YC-EX with software version 7.0(3)I7(8). The switches have the system default switchport command set, so all ports are switchports by default, but this does not matter for the setup.
Background This configuration is for a setup where the current network “core” is a Catalyst 6500 in VSS mode with a chassis in each data center.
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