That is correct, your physical ports are mapped as uplink ports to different virtual switches. There can be multiple virtual switches as needed and each virtual switch uses separate uplink ports. Since there is no IP forwarding that goes on in the ...
Assuming you have two switches in each chassis:Uplink first chassis switch to Cat6k-A and uplink the second chassic switch to Cat6k-B and configure link state failover on the switches. Each blade server is then configured for nic teaming. I have at...
Yes, running MPLS internally on your network would allow you to securely connect multiple network environments into a common 'cloud'. You would accomplish this by implementing VRF's (Virtual Route Forwarders) for your different environments. There ...
The 3500XL Series switches do not support ssh at all. Since these switches are End Of Life, there won't be future software for them either. If you require secure access to these older devices, because of something like audit requirements - the best...