Note that the FEX will disable any port that receives a BPDU, by design in hardware. You will need to disable STP on the blade-switch-to-FEX links for this to work. If it's Cisco blade switches you can use Flex Links.
Cheers, Brad http://bradhedlund.com Sent from my iPad (please excuse brevity, typos) On Aug 5, 2011, at 6:08 AM, "Matthew Melbourne" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We're implementing two pairs of N5Ks (and downstream N2k FEXes) to act > as separate iSCSI SAN fabrics, with SAN heads attached directly to > N5Ks and host ports (and downstream integrated blade switches) > connecting to the FEXes. Does anyone have any real-world experience of > using N5Ks for a large iSCSI deployment. I have enabled jumbo frames > through a network-qos policy-map as an obvious first-step, but wonder > whether anything can be optimised by tuning buffer sizes to > accommodate the bursty nature of iSCSI (etc)? This switches will only > be switching iSCSI traffic. > > Cheers, > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Melbourne > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
