HP 2530-24G Vlan issue

[Fleischen]

Hi,

I have two HP 2530-24G switches. Both have 3 vlans

1 Default (Port 1)

10 VMNetwork (Port 13 - 24)

11 iSCSI (port 7-13)

port one on each switch is connect to a router.

My goal is to keep the iSCSI vlan "Switch only" so I can connect SAN on both switches.

Scenario 1:

* Port 7 (iscsi) is untagged on both switches an I connect them using a RJ45 cable.

* Port 8 is Also untagged and I connect a PC to each port on the switch.

What I want is PC A to be able to Ping PC B, but this does not happen since port 7 i blocked by STP, If I however remove the RJ35 cale from port one the PCs can ping each other.

How do I solve this?

Note: I have tried Port 7 on both switches as tagged but that does not help

[Fleischen]

Hi,

I solved it by enabling BPDU-Filter och the ports connecting the Vlans.

[HPGuySoCal]

BPDU Filter will prevent a port from participating in spanning-tree altogether.

This is okay unless someone makes a mistake and adds the default VLAN to your iSCSI Trunk (creating a loop that would bring down your network).

So the preferred method is to enable 802.1s