I'm assuming you have RSM's in the 5505's. Actually you can "load
balance" using HSRP by defining two groups and have half of your hosts
default to the active HSRP address of RSM1 and the other half to active
HSRP address on RSM2 of same VLAN.
In the scenerio you describe though I have set up VLANS on RSMs, RSM1
active for even VLANs and RSM2 active for odd VLANs, each RSM backs up
the other via HSRP. In the closet if you have more than 1 VLAN you set
up a trunk to each switch, even VLANs forwarding to the switch routing
the even VLANs and the inverse for the odd VLANs. Set up a trunk or
ethercahnnel between the 5500's and make sure they are you root.
This way you have redundancy and load balancing and I know it works:)
Dave
khramov wrote:
>
> I've got 2 5505 at the core of the network. Then I've got anywhere from
> twenty to twenty five routers and about the same number of switches at
> the distribution and access layers of the network. One of the 5505 has
> blade with 8 gigabit ports, all the other port are 100 MbBaseFx.
> Original design was very messy. It had VLANs implemented but half of
> the network was in the management vlan.
> Shortly I am planning on redesigning some staff. I want to put all the
> routers and switches in the management VLAN. Dedicate a gigabit link
> for a server farm. I also want ot put all the bandwidth intensive
> networks on gigabit backbone.
> One thing that I am not sure about is how to configure my 5505. Would I
> want to implement HSRP on 5505, that would offer redundancy, however, it
> does not offer load balancing. Another idea that I was thinking about
> is implementing Spanning tree per vlan and configure access layer
> switches to run two vlans.
> Would you please give me some ideas on what I should do?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
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