NAD 3020 - Manuals

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 6 of 28 Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 Features This section highlights information about the protocols and features provided by the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 that help integrate the...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 8 of 28 Note: The IEEE 802.1w protocol is enabled by default when running spanning tree in RPVST+ or MST mode on the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020. The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 ena...

Design Guide Figure 5. RSPAN Example Link Aggregation Protocols Cisco Fast EtherChannel interfaces and Gigabit EtherChannel interfaces are logically bundled, and they provide link redundancy and scalable bandwidth between network devices. PAgP and LACP help automatically create these channels by exc...

Design Guide Figure 6. Alternative Network Configuration Data Center Network Architecture The architecture of the data center infrastructure must address the requirements necessary to create a highly available, scalable, and secure network. This section describes the basic architecture necessary to ...

Design Guide Figure 7. Data Center Front-End Network Aggregation Layer The aggregation layer is a point of convergence for network traffic that provides connectivity between server farms and the rest of the enterprise. The aggregation layer supports Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions and presents an idea...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 12 of 28 Layer 2 adjacency in the server farm allows for the deployment of servers or clusters that require the exchange of information done at Layer 2 only. It also readily supports access t...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 13 of 28 link redundancy combined with a deterministic topology design to achieve application-availability requirements. Servers are typically configured with multiple NICs and dual homed to ...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 14 of 28 ● Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) ● Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) ● Switch Assisted Load Balancing (server load balancing [SLB]) NFT teaming creates a virtual interface by grouping the...

Design Guide Slot Count The data center infrastructure must be flexible enough to allow growth in both server capacity and service performance. Connecting a blade system directly into the aggregation layer places more significance on the number of slots available to accommodate blade-system uplinks ...

Design Guide The data center core is a mechanism to replicate and horizontally scale the data center environment. In the recommended design the aggregation and access layers are regarded as a module that can be duplicated to extend the enterprise. Each data center module provides its own network ser...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 17 of 28 The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 contains an additional Fast Ethernet port, which connects to the HP c-Class BladeSystem Onboard Administrator, providing OOB management using the...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 18 of 28 Management Options The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 switch is manageable with the following methods: ● HTTP-based device-manager GUI ● SNMP-based management applications ● Cisco ...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 19 of 28 Network Topologies Using the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 This section discusses the following physical topologies: ● Recommended topology: Classic V-shaped topology with Spannin...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 20 of 28 ● Primary root switch failure and recovery ● Secondary root switch failure and recovery These tests revealed the intricacies of fast convergence in the data center and the necessity ...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 21 of 28 RSPAN requires a VLAN to carry the mirrored traffic to the remote destination switch. In the recommended topology, the secondary aggregation switch is the RSPAN destination, where an...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 22 of 28 Step 2. Allow only those VLANs that are necessary on the port channel between the aggregate and the blade switches. Use the switchport trunk allowed vlan vlanID command to configure ...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 24 of 28 VLAN Configuration To configure the VLANs on the switches, complete the following tasks: Set the VTP administrative domain name and mode and create the server-farm VLANs as follows: ...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 25 of 28 (config-if)# channel-group 1 mode active Configure the passive LACP members on Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 switch A as follows: (config) # interface GigabitEthernet0/19 (config-...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 26 of 28 Server-Port Configuration A blade server is assigned a specific port on the blade switch. This assignment is predetermined by the physical slot the blade server occupies in the enclo...

Design Guide © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 27 of 28 interface GigabitEthernet0/1 description <<** BladeServer-1 **>> switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,60 switchport mode trunk switchport...

Design Guide RSPAN Configuration RSPAN allows for remote traffic monitoring in the data center. Define source and destination sessions to mirror interesting traffic to a remote VLAN captured by network-analysis tools. Configure a VLAN for RSPAN on the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 and the aggrega...