Did some labs today and had 2 questions:
1. When we enable the 2 server ports on both the FI's , we start seeing the chassis with the servers. From both the IOM/Fex there are Port Channels to the blade servers. But why do they show in down state?
INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)# sh por
port port-channel port-profile port-security
INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)# sh port-channel summary
Flags: D - Down P - Up in port-channel (members)
I - Individual H - Hot-standby (LACP only)
s - Suspended r - Module-removed
S - Switched R - Routed
U - Up (port-channel)
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Group Port- Type Protocol Member Ports
Channel
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1 Po1(SU) Eth LACP Eth1/7(P) Eth1/8(P)
1280 Po1280(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/29(D) Eth1/1/31(D)
1281 Po1281(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/21(D) Eth1/1/23(D)
1282 Po1282(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/17(D) Eth1/1/19(D)
1283 Po1283(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/1(D) Eth1/1/3(D)
1284 Po1284(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/5(D) Eth1/1/7(D)
1285 Po1285(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/13(D) Eth1/1/15(D)
1286 Po1286(SD) Eth NONE Eth1/1/25(D) Eth1/1/27(D)
2. When we are configuring the MDS to connect to the FI ( MDS in NPV and Fi in NPIV), why do we use rate-mode dedicated with Port type F. I thought we need to use rate-mode dedicated only when we need to have the port type as E or Auto.