fellow engineers,
i have been working on a design model , where the ACE mldule will provide SLB for both virtual and real servers. we have been deploying several UCS systems and the customer would like to use the ACE as our Enterprise SLB layer
configured in bridcge mode.
the msfc within the 6509 provide the L3 routing. however we may extends multiple vlans (v160-v163) via nexus switch layer (7k,5k,2k) to a FW appliance which now is the svi interface for the extended vlans. these vlans will be configured on a dedicated context.
the extension is based on the bridge mode operation as follow:
need help with the following:
1) if i have 4 bvi's configured, do i need to have default route configured?
2) my total count for vlans are: v160-v163 for server vlans, and v101 is the management vlan. the svi for this vlan is on the msfc card. the server GW are pointing to each dedicated svi's on the FW+L3 apliance.
3) if my default route on the context is pointing to the v160 svi on the FW+L3 engine, will that prevent the return traffic for other vlans ( v161-v163) from the ace toward the client?
4) is default route neccessary if you hae the ace in bridge mode.
it was brought to my attention that if you have multiple vlans configured in bridge mode pointing to another L3 engine, then each vlan would have to be configured on seperate context since you can only have one default route per context.
i appreciate any feedback on this inquiry. if you need additional information please le me know.
thanks and best regards,
raman azizian
