Hi,

General mode on the switchport is for sending both tagged and untagged VLAN traffic over a single port. Portfast just enables ports to send traffic quicker when a port first comes up while spanning tree finds which ports are the optimal path. Neither of these settings should affect video performance.  

Ok Thank you for the answer Josh. I have QoS set on the on the firewall do I need to set up anything on the Switch/ ports connecting to the devices?  Did you happen to look at the Dell Support.txt file I attached.

The configuration looks fine, it may be that the switch can’t handle the amount of traffic added from video calls. You may want to run show process cpu and see how much cpu utilization is going on. 

The second option would reduce the load on the main network more, but would require more configuration. The N4000 series has more advanced video traffic functionality. 

If that is the case can you recommend a Dell switch that could handle the traffic or should we put the Video on its own VLAN and Switch with its own channel and uplinks to the core?

Thanks Mike

Josh,

             I need a little help here. I'm trying to put the video on it's own Vlan I first started off with VLAN 121 address 172.16.121.1/24. On the core I was able to get out to the IE. I went to the IDFC and configure that uplink and port and was NOT able to get anywhere.  I thought it might have to do with address.

So I started over and used Vlan 41 it was on a port-channel 9 and I could get anywhere on the network.  . Once I removed the VLan 41 from port channel 9 I'm not able to get anywhere again from IDFC. can you look at my configs on my ports and tell me what I'm missing here?

Thanks Mike[View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/866/Vlan-Not-seen.xlsx:550:0]

Yes channel 9 had multiple Vlan's . I wanted to put VLan 41 on its own to minimize the traffic.

interface port-channel 9
hashing-mode 6
switchport mode general
switchport general allowed vlan add 11,21,31,51,61,71,81 tagged
exit

CMTX-CORE-STACK#show interfaces port-channel 9

Channel   Ports                         Hash Algorithm Type
-------   ----------------------------- -------------------
ch9       Active: 1/g47, 2/g7, 2/g8,    6
          2/g17, 3/g47, 4/g47, 5/g1,
          2/g3

41     BCVOIP                           2/g11    Static    Required

CMTX-IDFC-6248#show interfaces port-channel 9

Channel   Ports                         Hash Algorithm Type
-------   ----------------------------- -------------------
ch9       Active: 1/g46, 1/g47,         6
          1/g48, 2/g46, 2/g47, 2/g48,
          3/g47, 3/g48

41     BCVOIP                          3/g45, 3/g36,   Static    Required
                                       

Is port channel 9 a trunk carrying multiple vlans or just one? If it works when vlan 41 is on there and vlan 41 looks to be on all the switches it doesn't have to route through other vlans.