09-28-2012 12:04 AM - edited 03-07-2019 09:09 AM
Hi,
I'm configuring environment according to attached picture. In this infrastrucure will be blade servers with teaming NFT, so only one network card will be up.
Could you please advice me the best spanning tree design for this infratructure?
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Vladislav
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09-28-2012 01:21 AM
If your cores are by any change N5Ks or N7K of C6500/VSS , then go with vPC and MEC portchannels, eliminating STP loops completely.
If not, I wouldn't dual uplink my blade switches in this design. I would connect Blade 1 with Core 1 and Blade 2 with Core 2.
Then use "link state tracking" for redundancy and failover on the blade switches.
Therefore, no spanning tree loops and 50% less ports used on my core & blade switches.
There is only one small disadvantage with this design: if you have silent devices as servers (ie some linux servers) and your server doesn't broadcast a lot, on switchover to the other blade & core switch, the MAC cache might not get updated immediatly. This might be solved by the blade switches itself (ie HP VC switches) or by the NIC teaming drivers (ie. gratuitious ARP on switchover) or by using "heartbeat hello" on the NIC teaming configuration (everything that generates traffic is fine :-)
regards,
Geert
09-28-2012 01:21 AM
If your cores are by any change N5Ks or N7K of C6500/VSS , then go with vPC and MEC portchannels, eliminating STP loops completely.
If not, I wouldn't dual uplink my blade switches in this design. I would connect Blade 1 with Core 1 and Blade 2 with Core 2.
Then use "link state tracking" for redundancy and failover on the blade switches.
Therefore, no spanning tree loops and 50% less ports used on my core & blade switches.
There is only one small disadvantage with this design: if you have silent devices as servers (ie some linux servers) and your server doesn't broadcast a lot, on switchover to the other blade & core switch, the MAC cache might not get updated immediatly. This might be solved by the blade switches itself (ie HP VC switches) or by the NIC teaming drivers (ie. gratuitious ARP on switchover) or by using "heartbeat hello" on the NIC teaming configuration (everything that generates traffic is fine :-)
regards,
Geert
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