Creating multiple vlans across multiple switches

[vinsanity02]

Hi All,

How should I create multiple vlans across multiple switches?

For instance, I have two (primary/redudant) layer 3 (core) switches and four layer 2 access switches (Cisco 2960) for the hosts, and given these are the vlans/subnets to be created. Should I do it in the core switches only and it would just propagate through the access via VTP?  Just trying to practice and learn.. Any help will be greatly appreciated:)

VLAN 100: [DHCP-workstations]

172.26.4.0/24

172.26.5.0/24

VLAN 200: [Servers]

172.16.1.0/24

172.16.2.0/24

VLAN 300: [Printers]

192.168.129.0/24

192.168.130.0/24

VLAN 800: [Management for switches/routers]

10.160.1.0/24

[Ankur Arora · Accepted solution]

Hi

You will have the SVI on the core. Set a VTP domain, make one of the cores as VTP server and rest of the switches as VTP clients. Once you do this, you won't have to login into each switch and create a vlan locally. The vlans will be automatically advertised from the VTP server to all the VTP clients.

Thanks

Ankur

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[glen.grant · Accepted solution]

  If you only have a few vlans you are probably better off running transparent mode and creating the vlans on each switch as needed.