CCNA Data Center DCICT 640-916 Official Cert Guide

Interface Allocation

The only thing you can assign to a VDC are the physical ports. At the beginning and before creating a VDC, all interfaces belong to the default VDC. After you create a VDC, you start assigning interfaces to that VDC. A physical interface can belong to only one VDC at a given time. When you create a shared interface, the physical interface belongs to one Ethernet VDC and one storage VDC at the same time. When you allocate the physical interface to a VDC, all configurations that existed on it get erased. The physical interface gets configured within the VDC. Logical interfaces, such as tunnel interfaces and switch virtual interfaces, are created within the VDC, and within a VDC, physical and logical interfaces can be assigned ...