Uplink ports on 6506E and UCS FI 6248's

Hello, I am trying to get my UCS on line with two uplink ports in an ether channel connected to a single 6506E switch with dup sup's.  I have FI-A in PO100 and FI-B in PO200 on the 6500 and FI's.
The problem I am having is that only one member of each port-channel will come up, I have swapped the TWIN-AX cables with not luck.  I have opened a TAC they suggested replacing the 10GB line card in the 6500. which I did this morning and still only one member of each channel will come up.  These are the port setting from 6506E side, if anybody can see a reason why they might not be configured correctly please let me know.

Hello John,
Please SSH into UCS FI and provide output of following commands
connect nxos a
show port-channel summary
show lacp system-identifier
show lacp counters
show tech-support lacp all | no-more
You can also share above information with TAC engineer . If could collect similar info from Cat 6K , that would also be helpful.
You can turn debugs on FI and bounce the port-channel and stop the debugs to further investigate the issue.
connect nxos a
debug lacp all
<>
undebug all
Padma

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    Can i "bundle" two uplink ports into an Etherchannel and then statically pin the server ports to the "bundle" (portchannel) and not the individual links ?
    regards,
    Geert

    Geert,
    Yes, you absolutely can uplink the FI with a port-channel to VSS or vPC.
    See this for a visual of this design:
    http://www.internetworkexpert.org/2009/07/05/cisco-ucs-vmware-vswitch-design-cisco-10ge-virtual-adapter/
    I think Mike Frase was referring to how the IOM (I/O Module) inside the blade enclosure uplinks to the FI -- and he is correct that port channel is not currently an option for those links.
    Cheers,
    Brad
    p.s. Please rate if helpful

  • Why the Fibre uplink ports are down state even after giving no shutdown command at the interface

    Hi
    My Predecessors brought 2 CISCO 3750 switches and implemented LACP on these core switches. Due to looping in the network the Fibre uplink ports GigabitEthernet1/1/3 and GigabitEthernet2/1/3 are down (I think these uplink ports are mirrored in the LACP concept)
    Please see below from the configuration.
    I logged into the core switch and went to this particular interface GigabitEthernet1/1/3 and I gave the following command and still the port is in the down state after I gave no shutdown command. Do I need to give the same no shutdown command at interface GigabitEthernet2/1/3 as well ?
    Switch-Core1(config) interface GigabitEthernet1/1/3
    Switch-Core1(config-if)#no shutdown
    Switch-Core1(config-if)#
    Please see below  After no shutdown command given still these 2 Gigabit fibre uplink ports are down.
    GigabitEthernet1/0/20  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet1/0/21  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet1/0/22  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet1/0/23  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet1/0/24  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet1/1/1   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet1/1/2   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet1/1/3   unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet1/1/4   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    Te1/1/1                unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    Te1/1/2                unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/1   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/2   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/3   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/4   unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/5   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/6   unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/7   unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/8   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/9   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/10  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/11  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/12  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/13  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/14  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/15  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/16  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/17  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/18  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/19  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/20  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/21  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/22  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/0/23  unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/0/24  unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/1/1   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/1/2   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    GigabitEthernet2/1/3   unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    GigabitEthernet2/1/4   unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
    Te2/1/1                unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    Te2/1/2                unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    Port-channel1          unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    Port-channel2          unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
    Please  let me know if I am doing something wrong .Please post me some tutorial to sort this.

    It is possible you are overloading that little 4215. If that is the case you should also be seeing "missed packet percentage" messages in your events.
    How much traffic is your 4215 getting? Those sensors will start to drop packets for inspection at about 30 Mb/s.
    - Bob

  • WRT54G v5 Uplink Port Not Designated

    Running out of ethernet ports, wanting to add a Fast Switch (SMCGS5), the back panel of this router doesn't designate which port is an uplink port, likewise the switch. Unless I went blind, my User Guide and the User Guide online for this model, has no mention of any uplink port designation, other than the 3rd paragraph of the online Product Description, for this model.
    I'm currently using one laptop, two PC's, and one NAS, and want to add one more wired PC. I'm noticing intermittent stalling or freezing after I installed the switch into Port 1. So I switched over to running to the switch from Port 4, noticed no difference in wired performance. Shutdown everything to be used on the network, including doing a reset all, no change in wired performance when the switch is used, otherwise, works fine with existing router/switch ports. 
    Took switch to friends house to install in their network. They have no problems with this switch.
    Would anyone be able to help me identify if the WRT54G v5 Router even has a uplink port? Or are "all" the ports, uplink ports? I've read the pre-posting information and have searched for similar question(s).
    Message Edited by EdGordonJr on 12-28-2008 08:59 AM

    You can still keep your linksys router...I would recommend you to upgrade the firmware on the router , then reset and re-configure it...
    Download the firmware from here ,
    Follow these steps to upgrade the firmware on the device: -
    Open an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1
    Leave username blank & in password use admin in lower case...
    Click on the 'Administration' tab- Then click on the 'Firmware Upgrade' sub tab- Here click on 'Browse' and browse the .bin firmware file and click on "Upgrade"...
    Wait for few seconds until it shows that "Upgrade is successful"  After the firmware upgrade, click on "Reboot" and you will be returned back to the same page OR it will say "Page cannot be displayed".
    Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds...
    Then, unplug the power cable while holding down the reset button for another 30 Seconds...
    Plug the power cable back in, and keep holding down the reset button for another 30 Seconds...
    Release the reset button...Now re-configure your router and connect it to your switch...I hope this works...

  • Best QOS Practice for a congested Uplink Port?

    I have an MPLS uplink port to a carrier that carries both voice and data.
    For example, Customer 3750 Switch 100MB Uplink--->100MB Uplink Carrier Router---Carrier Router 6MB MLPP Voice/Data MPLS Uplink with QOS configured for Voice subnet on carrier side too.
    The port occasionally suffers from overutilizition and spikes to the full 6MB
    I have a centralized CUCM that has phones that occasionally reset due to TCP 2000 timeouts (usually during the period of high utilization)
    So that I can avoid most phone resets during high utilization I have prioritized all voice traffic (signalling and RTP streams) to EF
    My question: What is best practice configuration for a congested uplink port? I'm going to assume the answer is it depends (the all great technical answer )
    Here are my thoughts on how to configure the 3750 uplink port so far:
    apply mls qos trust dscp
    apply priority-queue out
    (Here's where I'm looking for help)
    apply some sort of policing or bandwidth statement on the interface to protect the voice traffic: What are the recommendations and what would those configurations look like?
    I would apply these these configurations to the uplink ports at the edge site as well as the central site.
    Any thoughts as to the best way to accomplish this?

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    You want to prioritize VoIP traffic at congestion points, which for you, looks to be whenever your LAN bandwidth hits your 6 Mbps WAN.
    If the carrier takes your 100 Mbps, and doesn't just generally police all traffic to 6 Mbps, but instead has different priority queues for the 6 Mbps, all you should need to do, is insure you traffic is correctly processed by your WAN vendor.  This, though, might require marking your traffic for the WAN provider.
    If you carrier first polices all your traffic at 6 Mbps (many do), then you need to shape the traffic (with you own prioritization) before the provider "sees" it.  If you need to "shape" on the 3750, there's a command to limit a port's bandwidth utilization, as a percentage.  However it's not exact, so you may need to "shape" slower than 6 Mbps to insure 6 Mbps won't be exceeded.  (BTW, for 6 Mbps, if you need to do QoS, you would be better off with an ISR.)
    You also mention 6 MLPPP, but it's unlclear what your device is for that.
    How to configure 3750 QoS is involved.  Basically when you enable QoS, each port has four dedicated egress queues.  By default, different traffic markings go into one of the four queues, each queue has same share of the bandwidth, and almost same share of the buffers.  The PQ command you noted, enables the first queue to always transmit its packets first.  Normally, you'll want to do that for VoIP bearer packets, which you've (insured are) directed to that queue.  You also want to insure that VoIP signally packets are not likley to be dropped and, more or less, are forwarded quickly.
    Cisco has multiple papers on QoS configurations, including papers for 3750s, so instead of my trying to present that, the above is intended as an overview.  Feel free to post additional questions, the more specific, the more likely you'll get an answer.

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