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Two 5400R VSF and Distributed Trunking

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  • 1.  Two 5400R VSF and Distributed Trunking

    Posted Apr 19, 2018 10:09 AM

    Hi all,
    I have a question regarding VSF and distributed trunking.
    At the moment I wasn´t able to find the requested information for my problem.

    We have four 5406R switches.
    Two in data center 1 and the other two in data center 2.

    The Access switches are now connected to each data center with one link in active-passive mode.
    (the second link is blocked by spanning-tree)

    Now we are thinking about creating a VSF pair for each data center.
    The pivotal question is, if it is possbile and supported to create a Distributed trunking pair out of the two VSF clusters.

    That would allow us to connect the Access switch with a single LACP trunk with one link at data center 1 and the second at data center 2.

    regards
    Daniel



  • 2.  RE: Two 5400R VSF and Distributed Trunking
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    Posted Apr 19, 2018 10:58 AM

    No, see PPT extract:

    VSF system
    Mutually exclusive with:
    - QinQ
    - Distributed Trunking & meshing
    - Second Management Module in each chassis
    Same 5406R and 5412R models must be used

    FYI, for others looking, you may also want to search the HPE support forums under networking - there is a lot of ProCurve/AOSS material there (I see Xerox has posted there too!)

    https://community.hpe.com/

    https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProCurve-ProVision-Based/bd-p/switching-e-series-forum/

     



  • 3.  RE: Two 5400R VSF and Distributed Trunking

    Posted Apr 23, 2018 03:54 AM

    Hi Richard,

     

    thanks a lot for the explanation.