! ***** Fill in the parameters within the angle brackets ***** ! ***** Catalyst 6500 Native configuration template ***** !**************************************************************** ! mls rate-limit unicast ip icmp unreachable acl-drop 10 mls rate-limit unicast ip icmp redirect 10 no service pad service timestamps debug datetime localtime service timestamps log datetime localtime logging buffered 11024 service password-encryption enable secret <password> no enable password ip multicast-routing clock timezone GST 0 ! hostname <hostname> ! !

Here is a quick template to setup a Cisco Nexus 56128 or any other switch in the 5600 series. These are solid 40G switches that offer a ton of features. Fabricpath is used in this template for switch to switch communication. These are also setup as a “Leaf” switch in a spine/leaf two tier design. These are running Nexus 7.0.X code. For reference here is the spine configuration: Spine template

The configuration can vary depending on the type of switch you are using, so this is for the Nexus 5600 series, tested on the 56128. Unified ports on this device are available on the modules you can install in the top two slots, they are 24 ports each unified. So you can have a total of 48 ports. The border is orange so you know they are different. By default they are Ethernet 10 gig ports, so if that’s what you want then you don’t need to change anything.

VPC: Virtual Port Channel - this is a port channel that instead of connecting multiple ports only on one switch, you are spreading it over two physical switches. This give more redundancy in most cases. it can be a bit tricky to setup, so here is a config that I have used which seem to work great. The keep alive is done with the management port, and the peer-link is a leaf to leaf (in a fabricpath network) or switch to switch direct link.

Here is a quick template to setup a Cisco Nexus 6004 or 6001 (recently renamed to the 5600 series, so now the 5696). These are solid 40G switches that offer a ton of features. Fabricpath is used in this template for switch to switch communication. These are also setup as a “Spine” switch in a spine/leaf two tier design. This code was created on 7.0.x NX-OS. !!!MGMT port config interface mgmt0 vrf member management ip address x.