04-22-2008 07:57 AM - edited 03-05-2019 10:32 PM
Hi,
My server group recently purchased a HP c7000 enclosure with 4 Cisco 3020 blade switches. Has anyone deal with this type of setup before? Any suggestions on how should I connect the 4 Cisco 3020 blade switches to my 2 Cisco 6513 Aggregation switches via layer 2 link. Does anyone have any best practice documentations on this type of setup?
Thanks
04-22-2008 09:35 AM
Cisco have a design doc for integrating these blades into the data centre.
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns304/c649/ccmigration_09186a00807ed7e1.pdf
There are also other useful docs at
In our data centre we have a pair of distribution switches (6500's) and we connect each blade switch to both 6500's.
Jon
04-23-2008 06:16 AM
Thanks for the reply. I read those documents and they only refer to enclosures that have 2 blade switches. Since I have 4 blade switches and if I connect each blade switch to both 6513 switches, should I disable the internal cross-connect between switches or enable them such as follow:
<--> means "internal cross-connection"
Switch 1A <--> Switch 1B
Switch 2A <--> Switch 2B
Thanks
04-23-2008 06:17 AM
We disable the internal cross connect between blade switches.
Jon
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