Switch Force10 S4810 - TRILL or VLT

Anyone?

I apologize I am not real familiar with the Force10 products, I would suggest contact the Force10 support group directly for an accurate and prompt answer.

www.force10networks.com/.../SupportMain.aspx

Thanks.

VLT should serve the purpose.

it is very similar to Cisco vPC in operation. I have implemented it on a couple of Force10 rollouts, did not face any issues.

With VLT, when you have a downstream switches connecting to two upstream switches which are a separate logical backplanes (not stacked), the downstream switch will view them as a single logical chassis. thus, LAG or aggregate ports can be split between the two upstream switches without a problem.

for any switches upstream to the force10 VLT peers, they will continue to view these as separate switches.

As far as your requirement goes, VLT would give you this active active redundancy as long as you are using LAGs across the two upstream switches from the downstream switch.

do you have the details on how you would configure and setup VLT?

Yes Richter. VLT is designed to serve that purpose only..

Configuration is as follows:

Switch1:

1) Form a static portchannel between switch one and two and an LACP portchannel between Sw1 And 3.

FTOS#sh run int port-channel 
!
interface Port-channel 55 <<
  no ip address
 portmode hybrid
 switchport
 vlt-peer-lag port-channel 66                                                    <<< 66 is the port channel id of portchannel configured in Switch2
 no shutdown
!
interface Port-channel 128 <<
  no ip address
 channel-member TenGigabitEthernet 0/8-11
 no shutdown
FTOS#

2) Configure a VLT domain

FTOS#sh run vlt
!
vlt domain 1000 
 peer-link port-channel 128     <<
  back-up destination 10.16.130.51 
 primary-priority 1 
 system-mac mac-address 12:12:12:12:12:12 
 unit-id 0 

2#Switch 2 - Configuration 

FTOS#sh run int po
!
interface Port-channel 66
 no ip address
 portmode hybrid
 switchport
 vlt-peer-lag port-channel 55     <<<55 is the Po id of sw1
 no shutdown
!
interface Port-channel 128
 no ip address
 channel-member TenGigabitEthernet 0/84-87
 no shutdown

FTOS#sh run vlt
!
vlt domain 1000 
 peer-link port-channel 128 
 back-up destination 10.16.130.185 
 system-mac mac-address 12:12:12:12:12:12  <<
  unit-id 1 

3# Switch 3 - configuration

interface Port-channel 33      <<< LACP which consists ports terminating from both sw1 and sw2
 no ip address
 portmode hybrid
 switchport
 no shutdown

hope it helps,

Kmrsn.

Hi Kmrsn

Apologies, it took me this long to respond, but i just wanted to thank you for your input here.

This shall greatly aid me in the future as well. Once again, thank you.