I do have 16 trunks of two ports each, coming from 4 servers (2 trunks each) and a clustered Netapp Filer with 8 trunks. This adds up to the 16 aggregated links I mentioned - but where does the 10GBE uplink fit in?
Theoretically, you can have 16 uplinks coming from the stack. If you are going down that path though I would recommend using the 10GbE uplink modules for connectivity. The hashing alogorithms for distributing the load (in virtually any L3 switch) may not be sufficient to provide the load balancing you need in a 16xGbE LAG. It will cost a little more, but in my opinion would be worth it for 16 Gbps of capacity between two switches.
let me just check i understand your question correctly, you want to know if you can configure 16 LAG's over 2 x 62xx switches? the answer is yes you can, 8 LAG's per switch.
Absolutely right. Our problem is now, that we are not able to create more than 8 trunks for the stack. For trunks, the stack seems to behave like a single switch.
Could you please provide a config example for us? We really depend on having more than 8 trunks per stack here.
So my question would be: is this at all possible or is 8 the limit (even with a stack of, say, 6 PC6224)? Just in case you are wondering what this is for: we are trying to connect 4 PE 6950 with 4 NICs each with two netapp filer heads, also having 4 interfaces each. This sums up to 12 aggregated links in my calculation (divided into two vlans, in our plan).
If this is something I cannot do with a dual 6224 stack, I would really like to know.
Please help. We are now proud owners of a stack of 4 PC6224 Switches. By definition, one Switch can have up to 8 LAGs defined. I am not able to figure out, how to have more than these 8 in a stack, of whatever size. Is anybody out there, who can provide a cli config example for this?
Please do not just tell me that this would be entirely possible - I just can not see how one would address LAGs in a switch-local instead of a stack-global way.
tia
.Steffen
p.s.: yes, we could indeed break the stack of four into two pairs and be still highly-available. But the administration would be split up too then, and I am generally interested anyway.
I'm afraid there has been a bit of confusion with regards your question. Unfortunately the 62xx Powerconnect switch will only support a maximum of 8 Lags (Static or Dynamic), whether stacked or not. Your best option is to split the stack if you require more than the 8 Lags.
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I do have 16 trunks of two ports each, coming from 4 servers (2 trunks each) and a clustered Netapp Filer with 8 trunks. This adds up to the 16 aggregated links I mentioned - but where does the 10GBE uplink fit in?
.Steffen