topic Re: Load Balancing across two Flex-10 modules in BladeSystem - General

Load Balancing across two Flex-10 modules

dbx13 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:35:54 GMT

We have a C7000 with two Flex-10's in bays 1 and 2 respectively. The up-front reasoning was to have a backup/redundant Flex-10 in case of failure.

If they're anything like a Cisco switch, failure is unlikely. Is there any way to get the two operating in a load balancing config?

Thanks!

Re: Load Balancing across two Flex-10 modules

Jimmy Vance — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:31:34 GMT

Take a look at the Virtual Connect cookbook

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01990371/c01990371.pdf

Re: Load Balancing across two Flex-10 modules

Steven Clementi — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:21:07 GMT

It will depend upon how you want to configure your VC modules.

When you configure a Shared Uplink Set with 1 or multiple connections to each module, only the connections to 1 of the modules will be "active" and the connections to the other module will be "standby".

The only way you could configure for Load Balancing would be to have separate networks configured on the VC Modules. 1 network using the uplink(s) on 1 module and 1 network using the uplink(s) on the other module.

That being said, Load Balancing would need to be performed at the server level though nic teaming.

Steven

Re: Load Balancing across two Flex-10 modules

dbx13 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:36:46 GMT

Thanks guys, section 2.1 of the Flex10 Cookbook is the answer I was looking for!

Have a greaty day.