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Teaming (lacp) between HP BL460C and Cisco Switch WS-CBS3120G-S fail

Hi,

When I want to enable Active / Active teaming on my HP server, it fails with the following msg: 802.3ad link aggregation (lacp) has failed. Action: Ensure all ports are connected to LACP aware devices

HP team settings:
Team type selection: 802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance
Transmit Load Balancing Method: Destination IP Address

Installed the latest fireware, Driver of Broadcom card + latest version of NCU.

Switch config:
interface Port-channel1
description vers serveur XXX
switchport trunk native vlan 30
switchport trunk allowed vlan 3,10-13,30
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
spanning-tree portfast trunk

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
description vers serveur XXX
switchport trunk native vlan 30
switchport trunk allowed vlan 3,10-13,30
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
speed nonegotiate
no cdp enable
channel-group 1 mode active

interface GigabitEthernet2/0/1
description vers serveur XXX
switchport trunk native vlan 30
switchport trunk allowed vlan 3,10-13,30
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
no cdp enable
channel-group 1 mode active

Any help would be appreciated ?

Thanks
HL

from_exp

I would suggest changing hp load balancing settings to L2 from L3
and I would recommend trying to switch cisco lacp to passive

Don Johnston

Are you absolutely certain that the two physical links are functional?

from_exp

lacp should come up even with one functional link

bsohn417

LACP- port Ch will only work if there even # links are up between to connected devices.
for ex. if you have 4 link between 2 switches and 1 link fails the team will drop to 2 links.

McHerve

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Made some progress on this issue:
might be related to VLAN native.

On the HP NCU tool: Two VLANs defined (VLAN11: Prod, VLAN12: Backup). You have to define a VLAN native. Is set to 11 (not sure ist's good idea)
>> Once I set to 11, the Teaming LACP came up
>> BUT I can't ping any Host in the same broadcast domain or on different subnet

What I found:
On internal switch trunk port (connected to HP server) set new native VLAN to 11.
On internal switch trunk port (connected to external switch) didn't set new native VLAN (kept default=1)

I believe my problem is related to the use of VLAN / native VLAN in the HP NCU tool:
Anyone have same config: multiple VLAN set on a teamin ?
How do you deal with Native VLAN ?
How do you force the HP server to get an IP from a specific VLAN when it boot up ?

Thanks
HL

JanSc

Try this on eth ports cisco, and make sure you enabled lacp on HP ports (lacp enable)

switchport mode dynamic desirable

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