from force10 S4810 to distribution switch to access

Question

Hello there,

currently we have direct connection from access switches PowerConnect 7000P to our core switch Force10 S4810, we're having so many issues with our network, its very slow. i want to use an aggregation switch between the access switches and the core.

how do i do that?

thank you all

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Hi, Are you using 10G uplinks to the core? It depends on what is causing the bottleneck for the performance.

houstoniaman · Answer

thanks for responding so quick. we're using 10Gig, and 1gig uplinks.

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Adding a 10G switch with a 40G uplink might help.

houstoniaman · Answer

you mean adding a 10GIG distribution switch between the core (S4810) and the access switches?

houstoniaman · Answer

im using force 10 S4810 as core, PowerConnect 7048P as access switches, and N4064F as distribustion switch.

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Switch to switch communication should be trunk mode, RSTP should be fine, ideally per vlan spanning tree, but it would depend on the switch you used.

houstoniaman · Answer

how do i configure the distribution switch, knowing that we're in 7 floor building each floor have at least 3 access switches. for example 7th floor, we're using 107 for data and 127 for voice, and also 115 for security cameras.

what's the best practice to configure the distribution switch?

trunking mode, switch port access, rstp or just stp etc,,,?

thanks

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Right, it should reduce the number of bottlenecks. There might be other ways to improve performance if you could isolate what type of traffic is using the bandwidth.

houstoniaman · Answer

i can share the network diagram to get a better picture what im talking about

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