Re: what is the UCS FI mechanism that update vlan created on

Thanks Brian

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Brian McGahan <bmcgahan_at_ine.com> wrote:

> There is no mechanism. VLANs are locally significant unless the FIs trunk
> them northbound. The easiest way to think of it is the FIs are a server
> themselves. In end host mode the FIs don't do northbound mac learning like
> a normal switch, only southbound to the blades. The northbound switches
> only know of the UCS VLANs based on the data plane, there is no control
> plane protocol like STP or VTP.
>
> Brian McGahan, 4 x CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP/SC/DC), CCDE #2013::13
> bmcgahan_at_INE.com
>
> Internetwork Expert, Inc.
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> On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:04 PM, "jeremy co" <jeremy.cool14_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> what is the UCS FI mechanism that update vlan created on UCS manager to
> upstream Nexus ?
>
> hwo does fabric interconnect communicate the vlans that we configure on UCS
> manager to nexus switch ? is that CFS protocol ?
>
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