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Additionally, the supervisor engines of both chassis may prenegotiate their modes to be in PFC3CXL mode during
VSL initiation. If modules are installed in a system that contains a DFC3C, then the module may never be allowed to
power up. This example is further highlighted by the case where the VSL module itself is a DFC3C, but the supervisor
engine has a PFC3CXL. In this case, the VSL-enabled module may never power up. To avoid this situation, configure
the following global command if installation of a mix of PFC3C and PFC3CXL modules is possible:
vss(config)#platform hardware vsl pfc mode pfc3c
System EARL mode will be forced to PFC3C on next bootup
vss#sh platform hardware pfc mode
PFC operating mode : PFC3C
Configured PFC operating mode : PFC3C
Virtual Switch Link-Capable Interfaces
VSL-capable interfaces are required to create a VSL port channel. The current modules that support the formation of
a VSL port channel are the 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports on the Supervisor Engine 720-10G (VS-S720-10G-
3C/XL), Cisco 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching Module (WS-X6708-10G-3C/XL), and Cisco 16-Port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Switching Module (WS-X6716-10G-3C/XL). (Refer to Figure 5.)
Figure 5. VSL-Capable Modules
These interfaces contain new port ASICs that allow the VSH to be encapsulated on each frame forwarded out of the
port and also support the ability to de-encapsulate VSH-tagged frames.
Supported Chassis
From a chassis perspective, both E-Series chassis and non E-Series chassis are supported within a Cisco Virtual
Switching System environment, with the exception of the Cisco Catalyst 6503 (non E-Series) and Cisco Catalyst
6509-NEB (non E-Series). Table 1 gives a complete list of the chassis supported with the initial release of Cisco
Virtual Switching System.
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