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June 25th, 2018 13:00

Connecting non-stacked switch to stacked Force10

We want to add a new network for ceph storage and use stacked Force10 Switches as core switches however Force10 has limited number of ports. That is why we came up with a theory, that I tried to draw below, extending the amount of ports by using switches in dummy mode.

NRS: non-redundant switches

F10                     NRS     Servers
A,Port40 (Subnet A) <-> K  <->  Server A,Port 1 | Server B,Port 1
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B,Port40 (Subnet A) <-> L  <->  Server A,Port 2 | Server B,Port 2

So with this design, what do you think can go wrong ? Or are we trying to build something really bad ?

Thank you

 

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June 26th, 2018 10:00

Hi,

I think it should work fine, it is just adding an extra layer to the network but I don’t see anything wrong with doing it that way.

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