Aruba VSF High Port Counters

[Helix42]

Hi,

i configure a VSF on 2 HP Aruba Switches.

It works fine but the interface counter  increases permanently extremely.

   member 1
      link 1 1/A1
   member 2
      link 1 2/A1

port-speed 40g

                                                               Flow Bcast
  Port         Total Bytes    Total Frames   Errors Rx Drops Tx  Ctrl Limit
  ------------ -------------- -------------- --------- --------- ---- -----
1/A1         1,549,676,185  1,629,998,889  0         0         off  0

2/A1         900,798,200    1,619,989,198  0         0         off  0

5 seconds later

Port         Total Bytes    Total Frames   Errors Rx Drops Tx  Ctrl Limit
  ------------ -------------- -------------- --------- --------- ---- -----
  1/A1         2,447,304,020  1,644,021,925  0         0         off  0

  2/A1         1,798,332,633  1,634,010,828  0         0         off  0

Is that normal?

1 GByte in 5 seconds??

The other interfaces are blank

I didn't find anything in the HP notes about that.

[parnassus]

You mentioned VSF on Aruba.

Can you post outputs of these (Sanitized = MAC Addresses and Serial Numbers, if any...removed) CLI Commands:

• show vsf link detail
• show vsf link utilization
• show vsf
• show vsf detail
• show vsf topology
• show vsf topology detail

Thanks.

[Helix42]

Thank for Reply

the output:

SWTest1# show vsf link detail

 VSF Member: 1     Link: 1

 Port     State
 -------- ------------
 1/A1     Up: Connected to port 2/A1


 VSF Member: 2     Link: 1

 Port     State
 -------- ------------
 2/A1     Up: Connected to port 1/A1

SWTest1# show vsf link utilization

 VSF Link Utilization:

               Link       Average Link
 Member  Link  Bandwidth  Utilization %
                           Rx        Tx
 ------  ----  ---------  -----     -----
 1       1     40G        2         2
 2       1     40G        2         2
SWTest1# show vsf

 VSF Domain ID    : 2
 MAC Address      : 0xxxxxxxxxx
 VSF Topology     : Chain
 VSF Status       : Active
 Uptime           : 5d 22h 17m
 VSF MAD          : None
 VSF Port Speed   : 40G
 Software Version : KB.16.07.0003

 Mbr
 ID  MAC Address       Model                                 Pri Status
 --- ----------------- ------------------------------------- --- ---------------
  1  1xxxxxxxxx    HP J9850A Switch 5406Rzl2             100 Commander
  2  0xxxxxxxx    HP J9850A Switch 5406Rzl2             20  Standby


SWTest1# show vsf detail

 VSF Domain ID    : 2
 MAC Address      : 0xxxxxxxxxx
 VSF Topology     : Chain
 VSF Status       : Active
 Uptime           : 5d 22h 17m
 VSF MAD          : None
 VSF Port Speed   : 40G
 Software Version : KB.16.07.0003

Name             : SWTest1
Contact          : xxxx
Location         : xxxx


Member ID        : 1
MAC Address      : 0xxxxxxxxxxxx
Type             : J9850A
Model            : HP J9850A Switch 5406Rzl2
Priority         : 100
Status           : Commander
ROM Version      : KB.16.01.0009
Serial Number    : SG*******
Uptime           : 5d 22h 16m
CPU Utilization  : 5%
Memory - Total   : 692,166,656 bytes
Free             : 500,005,408 bytes
VSF Links -
#1 : Active, Peer member 2



Member ID        : 2
MAC Address      : 0xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Type             : J9850A
Model            : HP J9850A Switch 5406Rzl2
Priority         : 20
Status           : Standby
ROM Version      : KB.16.01.0009
Serial Number    : SG*********
Uptime           : 5d 21h 17m
CPU Utilization  : 30%
Memory - Total   : 692,166,656 bytes
Free             : 520,381,224 bytes
VSF Links -
#1 : Active, Peer member 1

SWTest1# show vsf topology

 VSF member's interconnection with links:

 Stby     Cmdr
 +---+    +---+
 | 2 |1==1| 1 |
 +---+    +---+

SWTest1# show vsf topology detail

 Uni-destination Link Path:

 VSF Member ID  1    2
 ------------- ---- ----
 1              -    1
 2              1    -

 Multi-destination Path:

 VSF Member ID   Path
 -------------  ------
 1               2
 2               1

SWTest1#

[parnassus]

Well, a transmission (and reception) rate of 2% considering a single 40000 Mbps (40 Gbps) link - your VSF Port link - means 800 Mbps (100 MBps)...not so much considering how much fat is the VSF pipe between VSF Nodes...the point is now: what is causing such amount of traffic between your two VSF Nodes? ...maybe it's due to an host only connected to VSF 1 that is continuously talking to another host connected only to VSF 2...