HP Procurve and Cisco 4507

b_ferguson · ‎04-14-2008

Have a customer trying to connect a 4507 and a HP Procurve 4104. We have the cisco setup to trunk encapsulation dot1q and trunking the native vlan, but can't seem to get the HP to communicate. When the Cisco is port is setup as an access vlan port, everything works fine. Reason for trunking is customer has VMWare cluster connected to HPs and wants to change VLANs as needed, tested 1 server directly connected to the Cisco trunk port and it works great, can someone please help me out.

Thanks,

Thotsaphon Lueangwattanaphong · ‎04-14-2008

Hi Christopher,

To make sure that the procurve switch,Cluster Server and Cisco switch have already been added the correct vlans.

To make sure that the procurve switch has correctly been configured the trunk port.

Just do a show vlan command on both switches.

Hopes this helps

Thot

b_ferguson · ‎04-15-2008

Verified that both switches have the correct vlans configured...

francisco_1 · ‎04-15-2008

when you have both switches in trunking mode, does the interface come up on the both switches (connected)?

b_ferguson · ‎04-15-2008

yes, both switches show up on both ports. from what I have read and researched it looks like HP version of a trunk port is different from what Cisco calls a trunk port.

francisco_1 · ‎04-15-2008

let me know if this helps

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1208263814798+28353475&threadId=357448

b_ferguson · ‎04-15-2008

I want to say that we tried that last night with no luck but I'll have to go back and verify.

francisco_1 · ‎04-15-2008

ok.

Let me know the outcome.

Francisco.