NIC Teaming & Cisco Switch EtherChannel Configuration
Dear Experts,
Looking to confirm if my configuration is correct.
HP Proliant server with 2 (1 Gb) NIC's using HP Teaming software. The NIC Team is configured as type: Switch-assisted Load Balancing w/ Fault Tolerance (SLB). The Team Utilization tab displays the maximum RX and TX speeds of 2 Gb. So this looks good to me (so far).
On my core 6509 I created a etherchannel group and added the 2 ports to the group. When I display the etherchannel groups [show ether details] the protocol is not displayed, basically it shows a dash (-). When I display the protocol for the group [show ether 3 pro], it displays the dash (-) then (Mode ON).
I have two other etherchannel groups for my EMC SAN that use LACP. Just wondering if this is setup correctly or if I need to be using LACP for the the NIC teaming as well.
TIA,
Mike
Looking to confirm if my configuration is correct.
HP Proliant server with 2 (1 Gb) NIC's using HP Teaming software. The NIC Team is configured as type: Switch-assisted Load Balancing w/ Fault Tolerance (SLB). The Team Utilization tab displays the maximum RX and TX speeds of 2 Gb. So this looks good to me (so far).
On my core 6509 I created a etherchannel group and added the 2 ports to the group. When I display the etherchannel groups [show ether details] the protocol is not displayed, basically it shows a dash (-). When I display the protocol for the group [show ether 3 pro], it displays the dash (-) then (Mode ON).
I have two other etherchannel groups for my EMC SAN that use LACP. Just wondering if this is setup correctly or if I need to be using LACP for the the NIC teaming as well.
TIA,
Mike
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mikecr
Do you want to increase bandwidth or just have redundancy?
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In this case I'm trying to increase the bandwidth to 2Gb. This is for our backup server so I'm trying to reduce the backup window.
Both ports are on the same switch, no redundancy is required
Both ports are on the same switch, no redundancy is required
In this case you need to trunk the interface. Combine it to appear as one.
switchport mode trunk on each of the switch ports to which this system is connected.
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t32275-etherchannel-pagp-or-lacp-trunk.html
switchport mode trunk on each of the switch ports to which this system is connected.
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t32275-etherchannel-pagp-or-lacp-trunk.html
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Arnold,
I thought trunking was only for switch to switch, switch to router and VLAN's?
Regards,
Mike
I thought trunking was only for switch to switch, switch to router and VLAN's?
Regards,
Mike
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Did a little more digging and found this nice Cisco article that covers the steps:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_configuration_example09186a008089a821.shtml
Thanks for your help.
- Mike
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_configuration_example09186a008089a821.shtml
Thanks for your help.
- Mike