HP 438031-B21 - 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch Application Manual page 8

High availability
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 164
Uplink Failure Detection ...................................................................................................................... 164
Failure Detection Pair..................................................................................................................... 165
Spanning Tree Protocol with UFD .................................................................................................... 165
Configuration guidelines ................................................................................................................ 166
Monitoring Uplink Failure Detection................................................................................................. 166
Configuring Uplink Failure Detection................................................................................................ 166
Configuring UFD on Switch 1 (CLI example) ................................................................................ 167
Configuring UFD on Switch 2 (CLI example) ................................................................................ 167
Configuring Uplink Failure Detection (BBI example) ...................................................................... 168
VRRP overview................................................................................................................................... 170
VRRP components.......................................................................................................................... 170
Virtual router ........................................................................................................................... 170
Virtual router MAC address ....................................................................................................... 170
Owners and renters.................................................................................................................. 170
Master and backup virtual router ............................................................................................... 171
Virtual Interface Router.............................................................................................................. 171
VRRP operation.................................................................................................................................. 171
Selecting the master VRRP router ..................................................................................................... 171
Failover methods................................................................................................................................ 172
Active-Active redundancy ............................................................................................................... 172
HP 1:10GbE switch extensions to VRRP ................................................................................................ 173
Tracking VRRP router priority .......................................................................................................... 173
Virtual router deployment considerations ............................................................................................... 174
Assigning VRRP virtual router ID ...................................................................................................... 174
Configuring the switch for tracking .................................................................................................. 174
High availability configurations............................................................................................................ 175
Active-Active configuration ............................................................................................................. 175
Task 1: Configure Switch A ....................................................................................................... 175
Task 2: Configure Switch B ....................................................................................................... 177
Task 1: Configure Switch A (BBI example)................................................................................... 178
Troubleshooting tools
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 188
Port Mirroring.................................................................................................................................... 188
Configuring Port Mirroring (CLI example) ......................................................................................... 189
Configuring Port Mirroring (BBI example) ......................................................................................... 190
Other network troubleshooting techniques ............................................................................................. 192
Console and Syslog messages ........................................................................................................ 192
Ping ............................................................................................................................................ 192
Trace route................................................................................................................................... 192
Statistics and state information ........................................................................................................ 193
Customer support tools................................................................................................................... 193
Index
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