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Avaya VSP 7000 Technical Configuration Manual

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Document Date: August 2015
Document Number: NN48500-645
Document Version: 3.0

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  • Page 1 Virtual Services Platform 7000 Engineering > Resilient Data Center Solutions using the VSP 7000 Technical Configuration Guide Avaya Data Solutions Document Date: August 2015 Document Number: NN48500-645 Document Version: 3.0...
  • Page 2 Avaya customers and other parties through the Avaya Support Web site: http://www.avaya.com/support Please note that if you acquired the product from an authorized reseller, the warranty is provided to you by said reseller and not by Avaya. Licenses THE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS AVAILABLE ON THE AVAYA WEBSITE, HTTP://SUPPORT.AVAYA.COM/LICENSEINFO/...
  • Page 3 Abstract This document provides configuration procedures for Avaya’s Split Multi-Link Trunking and Shortest Path Bridging feature for Virtual Services Platform 7000. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Figures ................................5 Avaya Networking Virtual Services Platform 7000 – Avaya Fabric Interconnect for the Data Center . 7 Fabric Interconnect ........................8 1.1.1 Fabric Interconnect Stacking ........................10 1.1.2 Fabric Interconnect Ports ........................15 1.1.3 Fabric Interconnect Mesh ........................

  • Page 5: Figures

    Figure 5 – VSP 7000 dToR (Distributed Top-of-Rack) ................12 Figure 6: VSP 7000 dToR to SMLT Core ....................13 Figure 7: VSP 7000 dToR with SPB on Front Ports ................... 13 Figure 8 – FI Stack Rear Ports ........................14 Figure 9 –...
  • Page 6 Italic text in a Courier New font indicates text the user must enter or select in a menu item, button or command: ERS5520-48T# show running-config Output examples from Avaya devices are displayed in a Lucida Console font: ERS5520-48T# show sys-info Operation Mode:...

  • Page 7: Avaya Networking Virtual Services Platform 7000 - Avaya Fabric Interconnect For The Data Center

    7000 – Avaya Fabric Interconnect for the Data Center Avaya FI (Fabric Interconnect) provides the new DNA for your Data Centre Network enabling unparalleled scalability and low latency interconnect to address East-West traffic requirements. A significant challenge in many data centers is the growing amount of East-West traffic which requires higher bandwidth between adjacent racks in the data center.

  • Page 8: Fabric Interconnect

    1.1 Fabric Interconnect The core of the Avaya VSP 7000 is a fifth generation Layer 3 Switching ASIC rated at 1,280Gbps. This provides the Avaya VSP 7000 with incredible capacity to support wire speed I/O and Avaya FI (Fabric Interconnect) Stacking concurrently.
  • Page 9 - the switch uses port 40 as loopback when rear port SPB is enabled; please see section 1.1.4 for rear port numbering. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 10: Fabric Interconnect Stacking

    Figure 2 – VSP 7000 vToR (Virtual Top-of-Rack) Connectivity from each server to the VSP 7000 vToR stack can be made up of 1 to 8 GigE or 10GigE ports with or without VLAN tagging spread across a vToR stack of up to 8 units. The VSP 7000 vToR will typically be provisioned with multiple VLANs to support native VLAN transport between the edge and core as shown in figure 3 below.

  • Page 11: Figure 3: Vsp 7000 Vtor To Smlt Core

    If we have an SPB core and a Layer 2 virtualized service is required between data centers, with SPB provisioned on the edge VSP 7000 as shown in figure 4 below, we can add a L2 virtual service (L2VSN) within minutes by only having to provision the edge VSP 7000 switches. All that is required is simply adding a VLAN with local port members and adding a service identifier (I-SID) on the VSP 7000 switches.

  • Page 12: Figure 5 - Vsp 7000 Dtor (Distributed Top-Of-Rack)

    Figure 5 – VSP 7000 dToR (Distributed Top-of-Rack) Connectivity from each server to the VSP 7000 dToR stack can be made up of 1 to 8 GigE or 10GigE ports with or without VLAN tagging spread across a dToR stack of up to 16 units. The benefit of using a dToR over a vToR is the server to edge and edge to core connectivity is now spread across two stacks protecting against any type of VSP 7000 stack or link failures.

  • Page 13: Figure 6: Vsp 7000 Dtor To Smlt Core

    In the 10.2.1 release (stack of 2) or 10.3 releases (stack up to 8) the dToR can use SPB to connect to the core as shown in figure 7 below. In this case, SPB L2VSNs are supported on the VSP 7000. This makes it very easy to extend a VLAN between data centers as the C-VLAN, local port members, and SPB I-SID identifier are only required to be configured on the SPB bridges that requires the service.

  • Page 14: Figure 8 - Fi Stack Rear Ports

    High bandwidth and low latency between servers (2.1µs – 5.3us)  Highly resilient stacking technology with scalable uplinks  Flexibility to spread across multiple data cabinets (100s of servers)  Ideal for Grid Computing / High-Performance Computing Solutions Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 15: Fabric Interconnect Ports

    The VSP 7000 by default operates in Fabric Interconnect stacking mode. The VSP 7000 can be provisioned in rear-port mode where the rear Fabric Interconnect ports will be treated as multiple virtual ports over the 4 physical Fabric Interconnect Ports. When in rear-port mode, the VSP 7000 operates in a standalone mode.
  • Page 16 In the 10.2 release, only SPBM is officially supported in rear port SPB mode. As of 10.2.1 SMLT is supported on rear ports. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 17: Fabric Interconnect Mesh

    1.1.3.1 SMLT - Rear Port set to Standard (raw) The rear ports on the VSP 7000 can operate in either stacking mode or rear port mode. Further, in rear port mode, it can operate in one of two modes of operation, standard (raw) or Shortest Path Bridging (SPB).

  • Page 18: Figure 10: Rear Port Set To Raw Mode

    Figure 10: Rear Port set to Raw Mode Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 19: Figure 11: Spb Deployment - Standalone Switching

    In FI mesh mode without SMLT, the servers connect to the VSP 7000 SPBM UNI interface either via a single port or via NIC teaming using MLT or LACP to a single VSP 7000. If the servers are VMware ESX, NIC teaming to different VSP 7000’s can be deployed without requiring either MLT or SMLT providing...

  • Page 20: Figure 12: Spb Deployment - Fi Stack

    SMLT IST and SPB on the same ports. This will allow the servers or switches to be dual homed to two VSP 7000 switches providing active/active link aggregation at the SPB UNI interface level. Please note the following when enabling SPB on the VSP 7000: ...
  • Page 21 (The connection to adjacent rows are shown in parallel in this reference design. These connections could be run from top switch in switch in row N to top switch in row N-1 and then bottom switch in row N to bottom switch in row N+1) Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 22: Figure 13: Fi Mesh - Single Switch / Rack

    Without an IST, for active/active to more than one VSP 7000, if the servers are VMware ESX with NIC teaming, you can connect the servers to different VSP 7000’s without requiring either MLT or SMLT providing Port ID or MAC based load balancing is used where each VM is allocated to one of the ESX NICs for traffic in both directions.

  • Page 23: Figure 14 - Fi Mesh - Two Switches / Rack

    Figure 14 – FI Mesh – Two Switches / Rack The following diagram illustrates rear port mode cable connectivity in an 8-unit FI Mesh with one SMLT cluster using both blue ports as the IST via the left two VSP 7000 switches. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution...

  • Page 24: Figure 15: Fi Mesh - Interconnecting Racks

    The following diagram illustrates another example of FI mesh interconnecting switches in different racks. By using Fiber Fabric Interconnect Transceiver and Cables, a connection up to 100 meters is possible. Figure 15: FI Mesh – Interconnecting Racks Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 25 The 4 physical Fabric Interconnect ports provide different bandwidth capabilities (see rear-ports feature for more details). Three different colors are used to represent the different capabilities. Optimum performance will be achieved when the same colored ports are connected to one another. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 26: Fabric Interconnect Mesh - Optional Spb Nni Port Link Metric

    (4095). If you modify a rear-port metric, such as the SPBM-L1–Metric, the modification applies to all ports which have the same LACP key. If different metrics are to be used on specific rear- ports, you will need to set different LACP keys on those ports. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 27: Fabric Interconnect Cables

    VSP 7000 Active Fabric Interconnect – 10 m AL7018005–E6 Fiber Fabric Interconnect Transceiver and Cables AL7018006–E5 VSP 7000 Fabric Interconnect Transceiver (two required for each Fiber Fabric Interconnect cable) VSP 7000 Fiber Fabric Interconnect cable — 50 m AL7018007–E5 VSP 7000 Fiber Fabric Interconnect cable — 100 m AL7018008–E5...

  • Page 28: Fi Rear-Port Mode - Configuration

    FI Rear-Port Mode - Configuration 1.1.6 Rear-port mode should be provisioned first prior to provisioning the VSP 7000. When changing from FI stacking to rear-port mode, the switch configuration will be reset to partial defaults and will require a reboot of the switch.
  • Page 29 VSP7000# show interfaces 33-39 Status Auto Flow Port Trunk Admin Oper Link LinkTrap Negotiation Speed Duplex Control ---- ----- ------- ---- ---- -------- ----------- -------- ------ ------- Enable Down Down Enabled Disabled 40Gbps Full Disable Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 30 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 31: Direct Attach Cables

    HP SFP+ direct attach cable — 7 m J9285B HP SFP+ direct attach copper cable — 10 m J9286B VSP 7000 Series Feature Pack Release 10.2.1 adds validation of the following third party SFP + devices: Vendor Model Details HP Blade Systems C-Class SFP+ direct attach cable — 1 m 487652–B21...

  • Page 32: Pfc-Lite

    The egress buffer settings are maximized so that no packets are dropped inside the switch due to the egress queues being filled to capacity.  When in Lossless (Pause Frame) mode, the VSP 7000 reacts to Pause frames received from a link partner by stopping transmitting of packets on that front-panel port. ...

  • Page 33: Smlt Beb Guidelines

    1.4 SMLT BEB Guidelines For the VSP 7000, it is important to not enable the filter-untagged-frame option on the IST port members. The default PVID of all IST ports must be the primary B-VLAN ID. You can check the default PVID by entering the ACLI command show vlan interface info <port list>.

  • Page 34: Configuration Examples

    In reference to figure 17 as shown on the next page, this configuration example will include both SMLT and SPB configuration for the VSP 7000. A SPB FI mesh provision on the VSP 7000 bridges in Data Center #1 while SMLT will be provisioned on the VSP 7000 switches in Data Center #2.

  • Page 35: Reference Diagram

     Data Center #1 Will be provisioned in FI Mesh (rear port set to SPB) using a total of four VSP 7000 switches – Section 1.5.1 will cover FI mesh with four standalone switches while 1.5.3 will cover FI mesh with two SMTL cluster ...

  • Page 36: Vsp 7000 Fi Mesh

    1.6.1 VSP 7000 FI Mesh For this configuration example, we will configure the FI mesh switches 7001, 7002, 7003, and 7004 as shown in figure 18. Port 3 on switches 7001 and 7003 will be used to connect to the core SPB backbone core bridges (BCB) 8005 and 8006.
  • Page 37 Current STP Operation Mode: MSTP Next STP Operation Mode: MSTP 1.6.1.3 System Name Configure system name Switch 7001: 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For switches 7002, 7003, and 7004, use the configuration as shown below Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 38 0.0.0.0 Mgmt Stack IP Address: 0.0.0.0 Mgmt Switch IP Address: 172.30.40.15 172.30.40.15 Mgmt Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 Mgmt Def Gateway: 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7003(config)#show mgmt-port status Port Link ---- ---- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 39 SPB Nick Name 0.70.02 SPB System-Name 7002 7003 SPB Nick Name 0.70.03 SPB System-Name 7003 7004 SPB Nick Name 0.70.04 SPB System-Name 7004 VLAN – Change configuration control to automatic 7001(config)#vlan configcontrol automatic Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 40 For switches 7002, 7003, and 7004, use the same configuration as above except for the items shown below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7002(config-isis)#spbm 1 nick-name 0.70.02 7001(config-isis)#sys-name 7002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7003(config-isis)#spbm 1 nick-name 0.70.03 7003(config-isis)#sys-name 7003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7004(config-isis)#spbm 1 nick-name 0.70.04 7004(config-isis)#sys-name 7004 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Change LACP key on FI Mesh “Black” ports (ports 34-36) to 4094 on bridges 7001 & 7004 and 7002 & 7003 7001(config)#interface ethernet 34-36 7001(config-if)#lacp key 4094 7001(config-if)#exit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Verify LACP Keys Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 42 ISIS is already enabled on port 39, 35, and 36 – simply just ignore this error message. Rear Ports – Same configuration on 7001, 7002, 7003, and 7004 7001(config)#interface ethernet 34,38 7001(config-if)#isis 7001(config-if)#isis spbm 1 7001(config-if)#isis enable 7001(config-if)#spanning-tree mstp learning disable Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 43 7001(config-if)#exit 7001(config)#interface ethernet 38 7001(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 25 7001(config-if)#exit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switches 7002 and 7004 7002(config)#interface ethernet 34 7002(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 17 7002(config-if)#exit 7002(config)#interface ethernet 38 7002(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 25 7002(config-if)#exit Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 44 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 4051 BVLAN-1 4052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 45 7001(config-if)#lacp timeout short 7001(config-if)#vlacp timeout-scale 5 7001(config-if)#vlacp enable 7001(config-if)#exit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7001(config)#show vlacp ========================================================================= Vlacp Global Information ========================================================================= Multicast address : 01:80:c2:00:00:0f Vlacp enabled Vlacp hold time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7001(config-if)#show vlacp interface 3 =============================================================================== VLACP Information Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 46 If the default VLAN (VLAN 1) is a member of the rear ports, the adjacency will display only one port member instead of a trunk for both the FI black and red rear ports. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 47 By default, a maintenance domain level value of 4 will be used; if you wish, you can change this value to lower or higher level from 0 to 7. For this configuration example, we will provision a unique Maintenance End Point ID for each VSP 7000 switch. Switch...
  • Page 48 10.12.11.13/24 7004 IP address 10.12.11.14/24 Add in-band L2VSN and IP address 7001(config)#vlan create 101 name mgmt-101 type port 7001(config)#vlan mgmt 101 7001(config)#ip address 10.12.11.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 default-gateway 10.12.11.1 7001(config)#i-sid 1000101 vlan 101 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 49 Port None 0x0000 Port Members: ALL mgmt-101 Port None 0x0000 Port Members: NONE 4051 BVLAN-1 B-VLAN None 0x0000 Port Members: 34-39 4052 BVLAN-2 B-VLAN None 0x0000 Port Members: 34-39 Total VLANs: 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 50 03-07-01-0F-42-A5, vlan 4051 i-sid 1000101 nickname 0.70.01 hops 7001 fc-a8-41-f6-37-df -> 8005 00-24-43-b4-e0-df 7001 fc-a8-41-f6-37-df -> 7004 70-30-18-23-98-65 7001 fc-a8-41-f6-37-df -> 7002 3c-b1-5b-ff-5f-df 7001 fc-a8-41-f6-37-df -> 7002 3c-b1-5b-ff-5f-df 8005 00-24-43-b4-e0-df -> 8006 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 51 10.12.11.3 255.255.255.0 ip vrrp address 11 10.12.11.1 ip vrrp address 11 10.12.11.1 ip vrrp 11 backup-master enable priority ip vrrp 11 backup-master enable ip vrrp 11 enable ip vrrp 11 enable exit exit Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 52 7001(config)#show vlan interface vids 9,10 Port VLAN VLAN Name VLAN VLAN Name VLAN VLAN Name ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- VLAN #61 1600 VLAN #1600 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 53 10.1.160.4 255.255.255.0 6 ip address 10.1.160.5 255.255.255.0 ip vrrp address 160 10.1.160.1 ip vrrp address 160 10.1.160.1 ip vrrp 160 enable ip vrrp 160 backup-master enable priority exit ip vrrp 160 enable exit Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 54 62 force-port- no spanning-tree mstp msti 62 force-port- state enable state enable exit exit # CIRCUITLESS IP INTERFACE CONFIGURATION - # CIRCUITLESS IP INTERFACE CONFIGURATION - GlobalRouter GlobalRouter interface loopback 1 interface loopback 1 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 55 =============================================================================== 10061 0.70.01 3051 fca8.41f6.37df config 7001 10061 0.70.02 3052 3cb1.5bff.5fdf discover 7002 10061 0.70.03 3051 7030.1823.7c65 discover 7003 10061 0.70.04 3052 7030.1823.9865 discover 7004 7001(config)#show isis spbm i-sid all id 1001600 =============================================================================== Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 56 00-00-5E-00-01-A0 1001600 Port 1/3 3051 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df 8006 00-0C-29-1B-99-93 1001600 Trunk 3051 70-30-18-23-7f-e0 7003 00-1C-C4-1C-27-23 1001600 Port 1/3 3051 00-49-00-80-05-FF 00-1E-1F-48-F2-06 1001600 Port 1/3 3051 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df 8006 00-24-43-B4-E2-06 1001600 Port 1/3 3051 00-24-43-b4-e0-df 8005 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 57 00-50-56-74-A2-79 1001600 Trunk 3051 70-30-18-23-7f-e0 7003 00-50-56-75-50-7E 1001600 Port 1/25 1600 00-50-56-B7-01-84 1001600 Port 1/25 1600 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 58: Vsp 7000 Smlt Cluster

    Figure 20 shows the SMLT IST and SMLT port configuration. Figure 20: Data Center #2 Configuration Example – SMLT For the VSP 7000, it is important to not enable the filter-untagged-frame option on the IST port  members. Also, the default PVID of all IST ports must be the primary B-VLAN ID; for this example, this will be B-VLAN ID 4051.
  • Page 59 Reboot the unit(s) (y/n) ? yRebooting . . . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7024XLS#show spanning-tree mode Current STP Operation Mode: MSTP Next STP Operation Mode: MSTP 1.6.2.2 System Name Configure system name 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7011 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 60 Port Link ---- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7003(config)#show ip mgmt route Destination IP Subnet Mask Gateway IP Status ---------------------------------------------------------------- 172.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 172.30.40.1 ACTIVE 1.6.2.4 Enable VLACP Globally Enable VLACP Globally 7001(config)#vlacp enable 7001(config)#vlacp macaddress 180.c200.f Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 61 7010(config)#vlan create 4052 name BVLAN-2 type spbm-bvlan 7010(config)#save config 7010(config)#spbm This operation will require a reboot to configure the loopback port. Are you sure? (y/n) ?y 7010(config)#router isis 7010(config-isis)#spbm 1 7010(config-isis)#spbm 1 b-vid 4051-4052 primary 4051 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 62 Create MLT 1 to be used by the IST Same configuration on switches 7010 and 7011 mlt 1 name IST enable member 23,24 learning disable 7010(config)# Verify MLT configuration 7010(config)#show mlt 1 Id Name Members Bpdu Mode Status Type Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 63 SPB B-VLANs as in the previous step, LACP will be disabled and will have to be manually re-enabled again. Remove default VLAN (VLAN 1) port membership from SPB enabled ported Same configuration on switches 7010 & 7011 7010(config)#vlan members remove 1 1,23,24 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 64 7010(config-if)#show vlacp interface 1 =============================================================================== VLACP Information =============================================================================== PORT ADMIN OPER HAVE FAST SLOW TIMEOUT TIMEOUT ETH ENABLED ENABLED PARTNER TIME TIME TYPE SCALE TYPE ADDRESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- true true 30000 short 8103 00:00:00:00:00:00 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 65 10.70.2.2/30 Ports 23,24 For the VSP 7000, it is important to not enable the filter-untagged-frame option on the IST port members. Also, the default PVID of all IST ports must be the primary B-VLAN ID; for this  example, this will be B-VLAN ID 4051. This will happened automatically providing SPB is enable first prior to enabling the IST.
  • Page 66 Verify IST Operation – assuming the peer IST has been configured 7010(config)#show ist MLT ID Enabled Running Master Peer IP Address Vlan ID ------ ------- ------- ------ --------------- ------- 10.70.2.2 7010(config)#show smlt =============================================================================== MLT SMLT Info =============================================================================== SMLT ADMIN CURRENT TYPE TYPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 67 =================================================================== ISIS SPBM SMLT Info =================================================================== SPBM SMLT-SPLIT-BEB SMLT-VIRTUAL-BMAC SMLT-PEER-SYSTEM-ID INSTANCE =================================================================== primary 70:30:18:23:a8:e0 7030.1823.bc00 7011(config)#show isis spbm =================================================================== ISIS SPBM Info =================================================================== SPBM B-VID PRIMARY NICK LSDB INSTANCE VLAN NAME TRAP =================================================================== Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 68 By default, a maintenance domain level value of 4 will be used; if you wish, you can change this value to lower or higher level if you like from 0 to 7. For this configuration example, we will provision a unique Maintenance End Point ID for each VSP 7000 switch. Switch...
  • Page 69 7010#l2 traceroute vlan 4051 routernodename 7004 Please wait for l2traceroute to complete or press CTRL-C to abort l2traceroute to 7004 (70-30-18-23-98-65), vlan 4051 7010 (70-30-18-23-a8-df) 8001 (00-01-81-29-1f-df) 8003 (00-80-2d-be-23-df) 8005 (00-24-43-b4-e0-df) 7002 (3c-b1-5b-ff-5f-df) 7001 (fc-a8-41-f6-37-df) 7004 (70-30-18-23-98-65) Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 70 10.12.11.110 0.0.0.0 Switch Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 Mgmt Stack IP Address: 0.0.0.0 Mgmt Switch IP Address: 10.136.56.42 10.136.56.42 Mgmt Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 Mgmt Def Gateway: 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway: 10.12.11.1 10.12.11.1 0.0.0.0 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 71 001e.1f48.f0df discover 8006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At this point, we should be able to ping the default gateway and all the other VSP 7000 switches. 7010#ping 10.12.11.1 Host is reachable 7010#ping 10.12.11.11 Host is reachable Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 72 00-e0-7b-bc-23-df 8004 00-e0-7b-bc-23-df -> 8006 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df 8006 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df -> 8005 00-24-43-b4-e0-df 8006 00-1e-1f-48-f0-df -> 7003 70-30-18-23-7f-df 7003 70-30-18-23-7f-df -> 7002 3c-b1-5b-ff-5f-df 7003 70-30-18-23-7f-df -> 7004 70-30-18-23-98-65 7004 70-30-18-23-98-65 -> 7001 fc-a8-41-f6-37-df ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 73 ---- ---------------- 3051 BVLAN-1 3052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 3051 BVLAN-1 3052 BVLAN-2 ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- 1600 vMotion ---- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- ---- ---------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 74 7011(config-if)#smlt 65 7011(config-if)#exit Verify operations 7010#show smlt ethernet =============================================================================== SLT Info =============================================================================== PORT SMLT ADMIN CURRENT TYPE TYPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create the L2VSN Same configuration on switches 7010 and 7011 7010(config)#i-sid 1001600 vlan 1600 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 75: Vsp 7000 Fi Mesh With Smlt

    In the previous example in section 1.5.1, a Fabric Connect Mesh configuration was provisioned using four standalone VSP 7000 switches. In this example, we will use the rear ports 38 and 39 as an IST and create two SMLT clusters consisting of 7001 and 7002 and a second cluster made up of 7003 and 7004.

  • Page 76: Figure 21: Vsp 7000 Fi Mesh With Smlt

    Figure 21: VSP 7000 FI Mesh with SMLT Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 77 Reboot the unit(s) (y/n) ? yRebooting . . . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7024XLS#show spanning-tree mode Current STP Operation Mode: MSTP Next STP Operation Mode: MSTP 1.6.3.3 System Name Configure system name 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7024XLS(config)#snmp-server name 7003 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 78 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7003(config)#show mgmt-port status Unit Link Limit Shutdown Interval ---- ---- ----- ----------------- 7000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7003(config)#show ip mgmt route Destination IP Subnet Mask Gateway IP Status ---------------------------------------------------------------- 172.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 172.30.40.1 ACTIVE Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 79 <System-id of IST peer> 7003 SPB Nick Name 0.70.03 SPB System-Name 7003 SMLT Peer System-ID <System-id of IST peer> 7004 SPB Nick Name 0.70.04 SPB System-Name 7004 SMLT Peer System-ID <System-id of IST peer> Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 80 Enter the ALCI show isis system-id on each peer switch to get the System ID value for the spbm 1 smlt-peer-system-id xxxx.xxxx.xxxx command. Each switch in the cluster must peer with its peer’s System ID value. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 81 Rear Ports: Same configuration on all switches 7001(config)#interface ethernet 34,38,39 7001(config-if)#isis 7001(config-if)#isis spbm 1 7001(config-if)#isis enable 7001(config-if)#spanning-tree mstp learning disable 7001(config-if)#exit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Front Ports: Same configuration on switches 7001 and 7003 7001(config)#interface ethernet 3 7001(config-if)#isis Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 82 SPB B-VLANs as in the previous step, LACP will be disabled and will have to be manually re-enabled again. Remove default VLAN (VLAN 1) port membership from SPB enabled ported Same configuration on all switches 7001 to 7004 7001(config)#vlan members remove 1 3,34-39 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 83 7001(config-if)#show vlacp interface 3 =============================================================================== VLACP Information =============================================================================== PORT ADMIN OPER HAVE FAST SLOW TIMEOUT TIMEOUT ETH ENABLED ENABLED PARTNER TIME TIME TYPE SCALE TYPE ADDRESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- true true 30000 short 8103 00:00:00:00:00:00 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 84 7001(config-if)#exit 7001(config)#interface ethernet 38 7001(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 25 7001(config-if)#exit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switches 7002 and 7004 7002(config)#interface ethernet 34 7002(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 17 7002(config-if)#exit 7002(config)#interface ethernet 38 7002(config-if)#isis spbm 1 l1-metric 25 7002(config-if)#exit Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 85 10.70.2.10/30 Ports 38,39 For the VSP 7000, it is important to not enable the filter-untagged-frame option on the IST port members. Also, the default PVID of all IST ports must be the primary B-VLAN ID; for this  example, this will be B-VLAN ID 4051. This will happened automatically providing SPB is enable first prior to enabling the IST.
  • Page 86 7002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IP configuration on 7003 (config)#interface vlan 2 7003 (config-if)#ip address 10.70.2.9 255.255.255.252 7003 (config-if)#exit 7003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IP configuration on 7004 (config)#interface vlan 2 7004 (config-if)#ip address 10.70.2.10 255.255.255.252 7004 (config-if)#exit 7004 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 87 Verify IST Operation assuming the SMLT cluster peer is also configured 7001(config)#show ist MLT ID Enabled Running Master Peer IP Address Vlan ID ------ ------- ------- ------ --------------- ------- 10.70.2.2 7001(config)#show smlt =============================================================================== MLT SMLT Info =============================================================================== SMLT ADMIN CURRENT TYPE TYPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 88 Untagged Frames option is disabled. 7001(config)#show vlan interface info 38,39 Filter Filter Untagged Unregistered Port Frames Frames PVID PRI Tagging Name ---- -------- ------------ ---- --- ------------- ---------------- 4051 TagAll Port 38 4051 TagAll Port 39 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 89 VLAN (VLAN 1) is not a member of the rear ports. The VLAN configuration must be the same on both cluster switches in order for LACP to form a LAG. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 90 ISIS SPBM Info =================================================================== SPBM B-VID PRIMARY NICK LSDB INSTANCE VLAN NAME TRAP =================================================================== 4051-4052 4051 0.70.03 disabled =================================================================== ISIS SPBM SMLT Info =================================================================== SPBM SMLT-SPLIT-BEB SMLT-VIRTUAL-BMAC SMLT-PEER-SYSTEM-ID INSTANCE =================================================================== primary 70:30:18:23:7f:e0 7030.1823.9865 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 91 ISIS SPBM Info =================================================================== SPBM B-VID PRIMARY NICK LSDB INSTANCE VLAN NAME TRAP =================================================================== 4051-4052 4051 0.70.04 disabled =================================================================== ISIS SPBM SMLT Info =================================================================== SPBM SMLT-SPLIT-BEB SMLT-VIRTUAL-BMAC SMLT-PEER-SYSTEM-ID INSTANCE =================================================================== secondary 70:30:18:23:7f:e0 7030.1823.7c65 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 92 By default, a maintenance domain level value of 4 will be used; if you wish, you can change this value to lower or higher level if you like from 0 to 7. For this configuration example, we will provision a unique Maintenance End Point ID for each VSP 7000 switch. Switch...
  • Page 93 SMLT – Create SLT on port 10 using SLT id 65 Same configuration on 7001 & 7002 7001(config)#vlan ports 25 tagging tagall filter-untagged-frame enable 7001(config)#vlan configcontrol flexible 7001(config)#vlan members add 61,1600 25 7001(config)#vlan members remove 1 25 7001(config)#interface ethernet 25 7001(config-if)#smlt 65 7001(config-if)#exit Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 94 SMLT state should display SLT as shown below. 7001#show smlt =============================================================================== MLT SMLT Info =============================================================================== SMLT ADMIN CURRENT TYPE TYPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== SLT Info =============================================================================== PORT SMLT ADMIN CURRENT TYPE TYPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 95 7030.1823.9865 discover 7004 1000101 0.70.04 3052 7030.1823.9865 discover 7004 1001600 0.70.04 3052 7030.1823.9865 discover 7004 1001600 0.70.10 3051 7030.1823.a8df discover 7010 1001600 0.70.11 3052 7030.1823.bc00 discover 7011 1000101 0.80.05 3051 0024.43b4.e0df discover 8005 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 96 1001600 0.80.05 3051 0024.43b4.e0df discover 8005 1000101 0.80.06 3052 001e.1f48.f0df discover 8006 1001600 0.80.06 3052 001e.1f48.f0df discover 8006 Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 97: Lossless Or Pfc-Lite - Configuration

    1.7 Lossless or PFC-lite – Configuration If you wish, you can enable PFC-lite on the VSP 7000 switches providing at least 10.2.1 is used. If release 10.2 or less is used, a buffer mode of large, lossless, or maximum can be configured. After a configuration change, the switch must be rebooted for the change to take effect.
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  • Page 99 Network Wizard. The Add Network Wizard first displays the type of Connection Type (Virtual Machine/VMkernel/Service Console) to be used. Select Virtual Machine and click on the Next button at the bottom of the wizard. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 100 Select the Network Access to be used. Choose the Create a virtual switch option to create a new one. Click on the Next button at the bottom of the window to proceed. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 101 Specify a name for the Virtual Machine Port group and add a VLAN Id if tagging needs is required; i.e. VLAN 58 as shown here. Click on the Next button. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 102 Click the Finish button to complete this part of the Virtual Switch creation. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 103: Addition Of Adaptor Ports To The Virtual Switch

    Addition of Adaptor Ports to the Virtual Switch Under vSphere Client, select the ESX server and then select the Networking option under the Configuration tab. Select Properties for the Virtual Switch that was created in the above step. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 104 Edit button in the window. Assuming we wish to change the VLAN ID from 58 to 1002 as shown here. If you do not wish to change anything, proceed to the next step. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 105 Click on the Network Adapters tab, to add/edit network adapter information. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 106 Click on Add to add a new adapter to the group. Select required ports from the options available. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 107 Once added, the Edit button can be used to make changes to port configuration. Click Close to complete this step. The Virtual Switch is now configured. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 108 Go the Summary tab as shown below and click on Edit Settings. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 109 Go to the Hardware tab as shown below and click on Add. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 110 Select Ethernet Adapter and Next>. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 111 Select the NIC team you created above and then click on Next>. Make sure Connect at power on is selected. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 112 When completed, the NIC teaming network should be displayed in the Summary tab. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 113: Vmware Nic Teaming Load Balance Mechanism

    1.8.3 VMware NIC Teaming Load Balance Mechanism VMware load balancing can be provisioned using the following methods when using an Avaya switch: 1. Route based on the originating port virtual port id  Default setting  Load balance based on vSwitch port ID ...
  • Page 114 VMware via the NIC Teaming tab. Select the ESX server, go to the Configuration tab, click on the Networking option and scroll down to the vSwitch where you enabled NIC teaming and click on Properties. After the vSwitch interface properties window pop’s up as shown below, click on Edit. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 115 Network Failover Detection. The Link status only solely relies on the link status of the network adapters – the Beacon Probing option is not support when IP hash is enabled. Also you should see all the NIC’s under Active Adapters. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...
  • Page 116 NIC team. If there are multiple VM’s, the VMs will be distributed across the multiple NICs, i.e. VM-1 will use vmnic4 while VM-2 will use vmnic5. Avaya Inc. – External Distribution August 2015...

  • Page 117: Reference Documentation

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