Were you able to find answers? I have the 3560X as well and am curious too of the configuration. Two switches are only for iscsi traffic in a vlan connected to dell SAN with two controllers (3 total links from the active san controller is plugged into the iscsi switch--two of the type7 controller ports are plugged into swi1 and the other is in swi2). The other (4th) port on the type7 san controller is for management--wired to a third switch.
I have the following config snippet. I'm having some performance issues and wondering if anyhting needs adjusting? Is spanning-tree required, and configured correctly, is flowcontrol turned on correctly? If I run a show int gi0/3 it says flow-control is off even though the NIC has it turned on. Is portfast required on the switch ports?
\
version 12.2
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
service password-encryption
service sequence-numbers
no service dhcp
!
hostname iscsiswitch
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
!
no logging console
!
!
!
aaa group server radius RADIUS
!
aaa authentication login CONSOLE line
!
!
!
!
!
aaa session-id common
system mtu routing 9198
!
!
!
ip domain-name .....
vtp mode off
!
!
!
!
spanning-tree mode rapid-pvst
spanning-tree loopguard default
spanning-tree portfast default
spanning-tree portfast bpduguard default
spanning-tree portfast bpdufilter default
spanning-tree extend system-id
!
!
!
port-channel load-balance src-dst-mac
!
vlan internal allocation policy ascending
vlan dot1q tag native
!
vlan 12
name iSCSI
!
vlan 665
name Management
!
vlan 99
name UNUSED_PORTS
!
ip ssh source-interface FastEthernet0
ip ssh version 2
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface Port-channel11
description Uplink to other iscsi switch
switchport access vlan 665
switchport trunk native vlan 665
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive on
spanning-tree bpdufilter disable
spanning-tree bpduguard disable
!
interface FastEthernet0
description Management Interface
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
ip address 10.10.x.x 255.255.255
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
description server 1
switchport access vlan 12
switchport mode access
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive desired
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
description server 2
switchport access vlan 12
switchport mode access
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive desired
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
description server 3
switchport access vlan 12
switchport mode access
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive desired
...............
interface GigabitEthernet1/1
description Uplink to ToOtherSwitch (Gi1/1)
switchport access vlan 665
switchport trunk native vlan 665
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive on
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 11 mode on
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/2
description Uplink to ToOtherSwitch (Gi1/2)
switchport access vlan 665
switchport trunk native vlan 665
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive on
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 11 mode on
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/3
description Uplink to ToOtherSwitch (Gi1/3)
switchport access vlan 665
switchport trunk native vlan 665
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive on
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 11 mode on
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/4
description Uplink to TOOtherSwitch (Gi1/4)
switchport access vlan 665
switchport trunk native vlan 665
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
flowcontrol receive on
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 11 mode on
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1
shutdown
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet1/2
shutdown
!
interface Vlan1
no ip address
shutdown
......
Thanks for any advice.
