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Table 40 3-Way LAG

Connecting M1000e to Non-Stacked external switch infrastructure

Advantages Concerns

•

Switch Firmware updates can be made on all

switches without downtime

• SAN Array-to-array traffic is isolated outside

of the M1000e enclosures

• Supports ability to scale arrays

• Supports ability to scale host.

• Supports sharing SAN with non-M1000e

servers.

• Can support different vendor switches in the

external tier

•

Limited scalability of LAG bandwidth.

• Spanning Tree may block some links if a

loop is created.

• All switches must be managed separately

Other Notes

• Recommend using 10GbE or larger links within inter-switch LAGs to provide better bandwidth

scalability.

• Care needs to be taken to ensure that addition of switches does not cause a spanning tree

reconfiguration.

• Do not interconnect the M-series I/O modules together.

• Additional M1000e enclosures are added in similar fashion to diagram above.

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