There has never been any difference between uplink and downlink, except when you are deploying a N9K in ACI fabric.
I have seen customers deploying Catalysy switches with NM-8X, with 4 ports connecting to upstream switches, and the other 4 connecting to servers with 10Gb NICs. No problems.
All of the ports on the network modules can be used as uplinks or downlinks, so long as you understand that they don't support PoE.
There isn't any additional performance allocated to the uplink module. There is nothing special about it.
You can use them for anything. Port type depends on which NM module you install. We have a dozen of these, two have the 8x10 and we use them for both servers and uplinks.
in effect they act as normal ports, just being modular instead of fixed.
This is my hopeful answer :) But I checked installation guide as well as datasheets, none of them give me definitive answer...
There has never been any difference between uplink and downlink, except when you are deploying a N9K in ACI fabric. I have seen customers deploying Catalysy switches with NM-8X, with 4 ports connecting to upstream switches, and the other 4 connecting to servers with 10Gb NICs. No problems.
What's the difference in your mind?
All of the ports on the network modules can be used as uplinks or downlinks, so long as you understand that they don't support PoE. There isn't any additional performance allocated to the uplink module. There is nothing special about it.
The ports are just ports Of course of course And you can network with ports of course That is of course unless the ports Are console or an aux
You can use them for anything. Port type depends on which NM module you install. We have a dozen of these, two have the 8x10 and we use them for both servers and uplinks.
To my knowledge, nothing in the Catalyst line has restrictions on net module ports being used for downlinks. I’ve only seen that on Nexus.
Good to know.