k me days of lab time and calls to Cisco TAC to figure it out. Let's go ahead and import the configuration for port channel 10. Here, I'm importing on NX-5K-2, but I'll need to do it on both switches anyway: NX-5K-2(config-sync-sp)# import interface po10 NX-5K-2 :(config-sync-sp-import)# Seems simple enough. Anytime there are changes in the config-sync buffer, we should verify them. If the commands won't verify, they won't sync: NX-5K-1 (config-sync-sp-import)# verify Failed: Verify Failed I hate when that happens. That's not a very helpful message, either. How can we figure out what the problem is? The first step is to see what's in the buffer with the show switch-profile profile-name buffer command: 5K-1(config-sync-sp-import)# sho switch-profile GAD buffer switch-profile : GAD Seq-no Command interface port-channel10 - switchport mode trunk vpc 10 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10, 20, 30, 40 speed 1000 That all looks pretty good, but there's still no indication of why it's failing. Here's the output of the same command from NX-5K-1: X-5K-1(config-sync-sp-import)# sho switch-profile GAD buffer switch-profile : GAD Nexus Design Features Seq-no Command interface port-channel10 switchport mode trunk vpc 10 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10, 20, 30, 40 speed 1000 That looks identical. Just for fun, let's pull one of the lines out. Maybe the speed com- mand isn't supported in config-sync (it is, but let's play). I'll do this with the buffer- delete command, followed by the line number I want to delete. I could also move lines with the buffer-move command. In this case, I want to delete line number 1.4: NX-5K-1 (config-sync-sp-import)# buffer-delete 1.4 NX-5K-1 (config-sync-sp-import)# verify Failed: Verify Failed Nuts-it still doesn't verify. To get a better handle on what's going on, use the show switch-profile profile-name status command: NX-5K-1 1(config-sync-sp-import)# sho switch-profile GAD status switch-profile : GAD Start-time: 5257 usecs after Mon Jan 17 20:53:21 2011 End-time: 980506 usecs after Mon Jan 17 2