Thanks for that - that's another issue we've encountered. I am hoping we can implement bpdufilter on the FEX ports (as well as disabling STP on downstream switches).
On 5 August 2011 14:12, Brad Hedlund (brhedlun) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- 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/
