What are Cisco UCS vNIC Redundancy Template Pairs?

A “Redundancy Pair” duplicates the vNIC on one FI to the other FI on failure.

The following configurations are shared when using template pairs:
• Network Control Policy
• QoS Policy
• Template Type
• Connection Policies
• VLANs
• MTU
• Statistics Threshold Policy

The following configurations are not shared when using template pairs:
• Fabric ID
• CDN Source
• MAC Pool
• Description
• Pin Group Policy

Source:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-central/GUI-User-Guides/Network-Mgmt/1-5/b_CiscoUCSCentral_NetworkManagementGuide_1-5/b_CiscoUCSCentral_NetworkManagementGuide_1-5_chapter_0100.pdf

Creating vNIC Template Pairs

Procedure

Step 1

In the Navigation pane, click the LAN tab. On the LAN tab, expand LAN > Policies.

Step 2

Expand the node for the organization where you want to create the policy. If the system does not include multi-tenancy, expand the root node.

Step 3

Right-click the vNIC Templates node and choose Create vNIC Template. In the Create vNIC Template dialog box, assign a Name, Description, and select the Fabric ID for the template.

Step 4

Select the Redundancy Type as Primary or Secondary or No Redundancy. See the redundancy type descriptions below.

Step 5

Select the Peer Redundancy Template—to choose the name of the corresponding Primary or Secondary redundancy template to perform the template pairing from the Primary or Secondary redundancy template.

Primary—Creates configurations that can be shared with the Secondary template. Any other shared changes on the Primary template are automatically synchronized to the Secondary template.

VLANS
Template Type
MTU
Network Control Policies
Connection Policies
QoS Policy
Stats Threshold Policy

Following is a list of non-shared configurations:

Fabric ID

Note

The Fabric ID must be mutually exclusive. If you assign the Primary template to Fabric A, then Fabric B is automatically assigned to the Secondary template as part of the synchronization from the Primary template.

CDN Source
MAC Pool
Description
Pin Group Policy

Secondary—

All shared configurations are inherited from the Primary template.
No Redundancy—

Legacy vNIC template behavior.

Step 6

Click OK.

Source:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-manager/GUI-User-Guides/Network-Mgmt/3-1/b_UCSM_Network_Mgmt_Guide_3_1/b_UCSM_Network_Mgmt_Guide_3_1_chapter_0111.html

What are Cisco UCS vNIC Redundancy Template Pairs?

Creating vNIC Template Pairs

Procedure

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