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November 23rd, 2020 06:00
Configuring two DELL S5224F Switch for high availability
Dear Team,
Recently we bought two DELL S5224F Switch and it has to be configured for high availability , If one goes down another should work .
We have two 25G Network card on Server Side , One 25G NW card has been connected to First switch and another one has been connected Second Switch . What other procedures should be done to make this configuration work effectively.
Please assist.
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DELL-Tim G
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November 23rd, 2020 09:00
The best answer depends on the overall topology and level of redundancy you would like to achieve.
You should have a look at our Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) feature which is similar to other vendor's MLAG implementations.
You can find a good reading here:
https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/static/media/0b6521c4-1d7a-41c5-953d-daf48e8a08e0.pdf
bealdrid2
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November 23rd, 2020 11:00
To best assist, we would need some more details. Are these switches for LAN traffic? Storage traffic? Are the hosts hypervisors (VMware, HyperV) or are they bare metal? If so, what OS?
SANKARPREMCHAND
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November 26th, 2020 07:00
These switches for LAN Traffic and connects to 5 Servers, Red hat hypervisor with KVM
bealdrid2
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November 30th, 2020 06:00
I'm not as familiar with KVM, but if the hypervisor can handle the uplink teaming on the hosts, I would do that instead of doing LACP to the hosts themselves. It's probably fine to have the switches in VLT though one way or the other. For example with vSphere, you can have a port group with two uplinks, active-active, and the virtual switch will "pin" each VM to a particular uplink. So ordinarily, one VM will only use one uplink, until a failure. Again, not as familiar with KVM so I'm unfortunately not able to assist further.