Port channel configuration with VMware
Hi everyone, I have dual 6120 interconnects, each of which have two uplink ports. I also have two Catalyst 4900M switches to uplink to. So I plan to configure both 802.1q and 802.3ad on each of the 6120 uplink pairs. My question relates to the physical cabling, bearing in mind ESX will be running on the blades.
Would you cable both the uplink ports on interconnect 1 to switch 1? Or would you cross-connect them to both switch 1 and switch 2?
As per this article I see ESX does not support splitting a port channel across two switches, but I am unsure how the presence of the 6120s affects this. Can anyone suggest the best way of doing the cabling based on the kit I have? Thanks.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1001938&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=14912551&stateId=1%200%2014916516
Hey Simon, let's address this is two parts because there are two layers: server-bound (ESX-6120) and north-bound (6120-Cat4900).
At the ESX end, use the default srcPort in the vSwitch / port group with both 10GbE uplink ports (vmnic0 and vmnic1) set to active (not active/passive). There are no loops in this configuration. On the VNIC (in UCSM) you select trunk port and allow all the VLANs that your vSwitch port groups needs. If you don't use a VLAN for the Service Console/ESXi Management, then make sure you set Native to the correct VLAN in the VNIC to allow untagged traffic down the right path.
At the 6120 you can't explicitly configure a trunk for border ports, they are already set so and when you add VLANs they are added to every border port trunk configuration. You, of course, need to make sure the Cat4900 ports at the other end of the cable have the same trunkport VLAN configuration.
So in summary - set VLANs in vSwitch port groups, VNIC in UCSM and northbound switch.
Now when it comes to port channels, you can only configure two or more border ports as a port channel if they are cabled to the same Cat4900. If you had Nexus 5k/7k northbound then you could use vPC on them to allow "mesh" cabling (ie. one 6120 connects to both Nexus switches). But as you aren't using Nexus you will end up with a configuration as Jeremy explained:
ESX --> vSwitch0 --> srcPort load balancing --> 2 active uplinks --> many port groups
6120-a --> Cat4900-a
6120-b --> Cat4900-b
However, I would still recommend using a couple of border ports in a port channel on each fabric to each Cat4900 because, if you pull out a cable/lose a port, then when that port is re-enabled the existing live traffic is redistributed whereas without the port channel only new traffic will be spread across both links.
Cheers
Steve
Cisco UCS Team
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regards,
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may be there are 2 different card.
2. from cisco websites:
Error Message
Explanation
This port has different port attributes than other ports within the port channel.
Recommended Action
Match the port attributes to that of the port channel.
Regards
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------------------2960 configuration----------------------
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vlan database
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ip dhcp relay address 10.0.4.10
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ip dhcp relay enable
ip name-server 10.0.4.10 10.0.4.14
hostname CORE-SW1
ip ssh server
ip ssh pubkey-auth
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ip dhcp relay enable
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ip dhcp relay enable
interface vlan 6
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interface vlan 8
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ip dhcp relay enable
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ip dhcp relay enable
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52:
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description "LAG 3"
channel-group 1 mode on
no macro auto smartport
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channel-group 1 mode on
no macro auto smartport
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negotiation 1000f
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switchport trunk native vlan 100
macro description switch
!next command is internal.
macro auto smartport dynamic_type switch
28:
interface gigabitethernet27
description "LAG 3"
channel-group 1 mode on
interface gigabitethernet28
description "LAG 4"
channel-group 1 mode on
interface Port-channel1
negotiation 1000f
description CORELINK
spanning-tree link-type point-to-point
switchport trunk allowed vlan add 2,4,10,14
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macro description switch
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macro auto smartport dynamic_type switch
When I try to ping 10.0.4.1 from the 28 port, here is the output:
Pinging 10.0.4.1 with 18 bytes of data:
PING: net-unreachable
PING: net-unreachable
PING: net-unreachable
PING: net-unreachable
----10.0.4.1 PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Thank you again for any assistance you can provide.
-Drew -
ASA5550 port channel configuration ERROR: nameif not allowed on empty etherchannel interface
Hi All,
I am having problem when configure port channel on asa5550
IOS ver asa914-k8.bin also in ver 9.02 and 8.47.
Please let me know how can I solve this problem.
UK-LON-FW(config)# int port-channel 3
UK-LON-FW(config-if)# vlan 245
^
ERROR: % Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
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UK-LON-FW(config-if)#
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no security-level
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no nameif
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description STATE Failover Interface
no nameif
no security-level
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no nameif
no security-level
no ip address
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UK-LON-FW(config-if)#Hi Marvin,
Thank you for your answer. I did everything but it did not work. Turn out it is a bug ver 8.45 will let you created the sub logical interface but actually it did not work right. Verson 9.x doesn't let you create more than 2 port channel (limitation of ASA5550 hardware).
https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCtq62715/?reffering_site=dumpcr
Also, you can see the 8.4 release notes were you can see that it is not supported:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa84/release/notes/asarn84.html#pgfId-522232
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We introduced the following commands: channel-group , lacp port-priority , interface port-channel , lacp max-bundle , port-channel min-bundle , port-channel load-balance , lacp system-priority , clear lacp counters , show lacp , show port-channel . -
Catalyst 3750G and WLC 440x - Port Channel - Configuration - Best Pactice
What is the best practice to use when configuring port channel between Catalystr 3750G switch stack and WLC 4402 / 4404 Wireless Lan Controllers:
a) Negotiate to LACP
b) Negotiate to PAgP
or
c) Hard-code to Port Channel without any negotiation.
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The controller's neighbor devices must also be properly configured to support LAG.
â¢Each neighbor port to which the controller is connected should be configured as follows:
interface GigabitEthernet
switchport
channel-group mode on
no shutdown
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interface port-channel
switchport
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan
switchport trunk allowed vlan
switchport mode trunk
no shutdown
Here is a link that explains it. Hope this answers your question:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/4.2/configuration/guide/c42mint.html#wp1116136
Here is a Best Practice doc:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a0080810880.shtml -
How to find out that which port is configured with modem?
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How to configure a port channel with VLAN trunking (and make it work..)
We're trying to configure a port channel group with trunked ports to connect a NetApp HA pair. We want to create two data LIFs and connect them to the switch stack. We are trying to create 2 data lifs, one for cifs and one for nfs that are on different vlans.
We want the same ports to be able to allow multiple vlans to communicate. (trunked)
These data lifs should be able to fail over to different nodes in the HA pair and still be able to communicate on the network.
What this means is that we have to connect 4 ports each for each node in the NetApp HA Pair to the switches and create a port channel of some type that allows for trunked vlans. When we configure the ports, the configuration is as follows (below):
We are only able to configure an IP on one of the vlans.
When we configure an IP from another vlan for the data lif, it does not respond to a ping.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong on the Cisco switch?
interface GigabitEthernet4/0/12
description Netapp2-e0a
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
end
interface GigabitEthernet4/0/13
description Netapp2-e0c
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
end
interface GigabitEthernet6/0/12
description Netapp2-e0b
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
end
interface GigabitEthernet6/0/13
description Netapp2-e0d
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
end
interface Port-channel20
description Netapp2-NFS
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpduguard enable
endOur problem was fixed by the storage people. They changed the server end to trunk, and the encapsulation / etherchannel.
I like all the suggestions, and they probably helped out with the configuration getting this to work.
Thanks!
interface Port-channel20
description Netapp2-NFS
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
switchport mode trunk
interface GigabitEthernet4/0/12
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
switchport mode trunk
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
interface GigabitEthernet4/0/13
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
switchport mode trunk
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
interface GigabitEthernet6/0/12
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
switchport mode trunk
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active
interface GigabitEthernet6/0/13
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,511,519
switchport mode trunk
channel-protocol lacp
channel-group 20 mode active -
Configuring port-channel on N7K
Hi there,
I am trying to build a port-channel from N7K-01 to N7K-02 using a breakout cables (40G interface from N7K-01 to 4x10G interfaces on N7K-02). it didn't work
is this require a special configuration??? because I have done port-channel configuration between two 40G interfaces and it works.
appreciate your valuable support if possible to share the needed configuration to accomplish this.
thanks,
regards,
Haitham.Hi,
when I do it directly between cisco ASR9k, the 10g interfaces are up with lights but 40G side is red not up.
between cisco N7Ks, no lights from both sides. between N7Ks cable is going to patch-panel and then to other nexus.
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Do I configure spanning-tree port type ed trunk on LACP port-channels
Hello,
Can't seem to see a clear answer and wondering if something could offer some advice please?
We are using LACP aggregation across all our 10 gig attached servers and also trunking them. We're running a VPC pair of 5596 Nexus.
For a standard trunk port I always add the spanning-tree port type edge trunk to the interface config.
However I think I should be adding this to the overiding port-channel config. At present a colleague has configured the VPC below omitting the spanning-tree port type config.
interface port-channel100
description a-server
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 100
vpc 100
The port member configs are these which do contain the spanning tree port type:
interface Ethernet1/1
description a-server(1)
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 100
spanning-tree port type edge trunk
channel-group 100 mode active
I always try to keep the overiding port channel config the same as its members and obviously for most config, you can't have disparate configs anyway.
However for the spanning tree config the NexOS allows you to have the members with spanning tree port types and not have to reflect that in the port-channel.
However I have this issue with STP:
Switch1# show spanning-tree interface po100
Vlan Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
VLAN0100 Desg BKN*200 128.4996 (vPC) Network P2p *BA_Inc
Is this due to the inconsistency with my port channel to member configs?
Any advice would be gratefully accepted.
Thanks!Hi Paul, there are some parameters you can define on individual ports and there are some of them that will be inherited from the port-channel configuration no matter what has been configured under the infidividual ports. Spanning-tree configuration is one of the inherited ones. As soon as the port joins into a port-channel, it will start to use spanning-tree settings under the port-channel. When it leaves the channel, then it can continue to use the individual configuration.
There is a nice summary here under NX-OS Interface Conf Guide > Port-Channel Conf:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/6_x/nx-os/interfaces/configuration/guide/if_portchannel.html#wp1798338
Evren -
Possible to use inline mode with Port Channel
Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has used inline mode with Port Channel configuration placing WAE device between router and switch. Any tips or gotcahs to be concerned about. We currently have inline mode running at this location but site would want redudancy built in through port channel.
kind regards,
NigelHi Nigel,
This is not supported :
Taken from here :
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v531/command/reference/cmdr/glob_cfg.html#wp1532575
Best regards
Finn Poulsen
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