Trunk configuration during replacement of HPE V1910 switch with HPE 2530

[Leviathan]

Good evening everyone! In the company we have some old HPE V1910 switches that have reached the end of their life cycle that we would like to replace as soon as possible with HPE 2530s, in order to standardize everything with a single product.
These old switches act as a bridge between the various offices located in the city through fiber optic connections. The V1910s have the sfp port 25 (in case of fiber connection) or specific lan ports (in case they are located in the same building) configured in hybrid with all vlan tagged (6 VLANS + Management VLAN) except the one indicated as primary / management.
My question is the following: since the HPE 2530 no longer have the possibility to configure the ports in hybrid mode, how is it best to configure the interconnection ports between switches?Is it better to tag each VLAN? Or configure this specific ports in trunk mode?

Coming from another world and reading on the net, I suspect I feel bad interpreting the meaning of "Trunk" for Aruba products ...which doesn't mean a port carrying multiple VLAN but only a link aggregation...
Forgive the question that may seem trivial and thanks for the help.

[Ivan_B · Accepted solution]

Hello @Leviathan !

"Trunk" in Aruba is what other vendors call LAG, in Comware it's "BAGG", Bridge-Aggregation. So that's totally different from 'VLAN Trunk'. Since you need to convert hybrid ports to Aruba language, I guess it's pretty easy - you need to tag all VLANs that are tagged on hybrid port and untag the one that is untagged now.

I suggest you to read this document - https://community.arubanetworks.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=7eb10b33-891a-4ef0-86d9-1e1c13be4fde , specifically Chapter 16 VLAN Management:

There is no hybrid port in this table, but keep in mind that hybrid port with all VLANs tagged and one untagged equals normal trunk port that should be known to you from Comware or Cisco world.

1910V config:

interface Gig1/0/1
 port link-type hybrid
 port hybrid vlan 10 20 30 tagged
 port hybrid vlan 1 untagged
 port hybrid pvid vlan 1

is the same as:

interface Gig1/0/1 (Comware)
 port link-type trunk
 port trunk vlan 1 10 20 30
 port trunk pvid vlan 1

and same as (Cisco):

interface Gig1/0/1
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 1 10 20 30
 switchport trunk native vlan 1

In Aruba that would be something like this (for port 25!):

vlan 1
 untagged 25
!
vlan 10
 tagged 25
!
vlan 20
 tagged 25
!
vlan 30
 tagged 25

Hope this helps!

[Leviathan]

Thanks for the answer @Ivan_B !

So I was right that in the Aruba language the term trunk had a different meaning.

I have another question about LACP and TRUNK, but I think I will open a new discussion, not being strictly related to this one.

Thank you so much.