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09-29-2014 08:17 AM
09-29-2014 08:17 AM
E6600-24XG - Distributed Trunking and STP question
I haven't seen a posting about this particular scenario yet (which may mean I haven't looked hard enough!), so...
I have 2 E6600-24XG switches I use for vSphere iSCSI connectivity to our HP Lefthand SAN. Both switches are connected to a 10Gb module in a 5412zl, one SFP+ cable per 6600, to communicate to each other, and to allow the SAN to communication with another Lefthand SAN at a remote site.
A couple of years ago, when I originally setup these switches, I had turned on spanning tree, then turned it back off a few months later, as it wasn't needed, and was knocking the LH SAN ports off for 2 seconds when a SAN node was rebooted.
I want to setup a distributed trunk for a 3rd party NAS we're going to use for B2D. Which also means I have to designate a switch-interconnect port.
Currently the 10Gb interfaces in each Lefthand SAN node is configured in ALB mode, and appear to be working OK without distributed trunking. I believe the Thecus NAS we're going to use for B2D requires DT to use ALB.
Question: Can I designate the already in use uplinks to the 5412 as the switch-interconnect on each 6600? Or do I need to use a completely separate port and connect 6600 directly to 6600?
Question: If I have to connect 6600 directly to 6600, will I have to turn on spanning tree again? Will there be any interruption in my iSCSI traffic to/from the Lefthand SANs? Will there be any disruption on the rest of my network?
Question(last one for now!): If I have to use direct 6600 to 6600 interconnect, do I need to do anything special with the uplinks to the 5412? Keepalive VLAN? Priority???
Thanks in advance, everyone!
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