Cisco Switch Module for IBM - CIGESM

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

not sure about the architecture of CIGESM, but can we configure trunking on its internal ports (i can see at the backplane ports gig 17-20 only)? i've configured gig0/5 as trunk and it's connected to an IBM blade server 5. we want to pass vlan 340 and 341 on that trunk. static IP are set on the server as 10.243.44.19 and gateway (SVI for VLAN 341) as 10.243.44.20.

[johnlloyd_13]

further adding to this, is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between the gig ports and server blade. like in my case is gig0/5 is connected to server blade 5?

[johnlloyd_13]

can the gig0/5 interface on the cisco switch blade config should be:

interface GigabitEthernet0/5

description blade5

switchport access vlan 3048

switchport mode access

or

interface GigabitEthernet0/5

description blade5

switchport mode trunk

switchport trunk allowed vlan 3048,3049

[johnlloyd_13]

can the gig0/5 interface on the cisco switch blade config should be:

interface GigabitEthernet0/5

description blade5

switchport access vlan 3048

switchport mode access

or

interface GigabitEthernet0/5

description blade5

switchport mode trunk

switchport trunk allowed vlan 3048,3049

[glen.grant]

Normally by default the internal ports are trunks out of box allowing all vlans across the trunk so yes you can do this .

[glen.grant]

Yes it is a direct correlation between switchport and server blade number.

[johnlloyd_13]

thanks glen! can you send me a link on the document or white paper on this? i've searched both ibm and cisco websites but it's going nowhere.

when i've configured gig0/5 trunked and allowed certain VLANs to switch blade 5, pings failed. not sure if there's a config on the server side where the client is running VMware/ESX server.