While troubleshooting VLAN connectivity on UCS in end-host mode with multiple uplinks, it is be good to know which uplink is the designated receiver (listener for broadcast and multicast) for which VLAN. This will be useful when you have L2 connectivity issues, where 1 or more VLANs are having issues going outside the Fabric Interconnects.

Considering the length of the command to find the designated receivers, I haven’t memorised the command itself, but the which command to find it:

UCS-FI-A(nxos)# which | inc vlandb
(2511) show platform software enm internal info vlandb { all | xlatetbl | id  }

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