Cisco NX-OS vPC (Virtual PortChannel) Configuration Notes

Water spring reflecting a rainbow.
Youth Park (青年公園) (Google+). Taipei City, Taiwan

To enable Multi-chassis EtherChannel (MEC) on Cisco Nexus data center switches, the only option left for you is to enable Virtual PortChannel (vPC).

Virtual PortChannel is not that easy for people to configure correctly by hand. Even In this “Quick” vPC Configuration Guide, we still have to do 8 long steps before we have some working vPCs. A little bit frustrating when we look at it for the first time.

Here I just want to point out one aspect to make you feel better about vPC.

Cisco NX-OS MOTD configuration and verification

Tropical feel in Taipei Botanical Garden (台北植物園) (Wiki).

In NX-OS, the command to configure MOTD (Message of the Day, Wiki) banner is exactly the same as IOS.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/6_x/nx-os/fundamentals/command/reference/fnd_commands.html#wp1571839

Displaying text file contents on Cisco IOS and NX-OS

Looking over Taipei Railway Station (台北車站) (Wiki), to northern part of Taipei City.

[Cisco IOS]

For Cisco IOS platforms, we use the command more.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_m1.html#wp1022989