topic Re: c7000 with ethernet switch in BladeSystem - General

c7000 with ethernet switch

Navaneeda — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:32:21 GMT

we have a c7000 installed with cisco 3020 switches. my external switches are having vlan.

what are the steps i have to do for configuring this cisco 3020 switch ??
is it ok only to create vlans as per external switches ???

any documents availabel for this switch ??

Re: c7000 with ethernet switch

WFHC-WI — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:09 GMT

Hi Navaneeda,

Consult this page:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual〈=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64180&taskId=115&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=2510334

This manual in particular may answer your questions, see page 7-10:
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01009086/c01009086.pdf

good luck!

Re: c7000 with ethernet switch

Lmm_1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:28:02 GMT

Cisco 3020 is just like any other non-blade Cisco Switch. On this switch ports 1-16 will map to the NICs, 17 to 22 are external ports, and 23-24 can be used as external ports or x-connect ports betweend adjancent bays. If you want to pass more than 1 vlan on the external ports, you just need to configure the port as a trunk or use DTP.

e.g.
config# Int gi0/17
config-if#swithchport mode trunk
config-if#swithchport trunk allowed vlan x,y
config-if#swithchport native vlan x

VLANs can be create as well from the vlan database or config mode.