So we finally got everything configured on the ProCurve 5412zl for the Equallogic today. According to the documentation you need to configure the following:
- a separate iScsi VLAN
- turn on flowcontrol
- enable jumbo frames on the VLAN
- turn off spanning-tree on iScsi ports
- disable unicast storm control
Here is the snippet of the switch config for the Equallogic and server connected to it:
interface C19
name "ESX Server connection to iScsi VLAN"
flow-control
no power-over-ethernet
exit
interface D9
name "Equallogic NIC1"
flow-control
no power-over-ethernet
exit
interface D10
name "Equallogic NIC2"
flow-control
no power-over-ethernet
exit
vlan 25
name "iScsi_VLAN"
untagged C19, D9-D10
ip address 10.3.25.1 255.255.255.0
jumbo
exit
spanning-tree
spanning-tree C19 bpdu-filter
spanning-tree D9 bpdu-filter
spanning-tree D10 bpdu-filter
spanning-tree C19 admin-edge-port
spanning-tree D9 admin-edge-port
spanning-tree D10 admin-edge-port
spanning-tree config-name "Calamazo"
spanning-tree force-version RSTP-operation
On the ProCurve, I couldn't find a setting for unicast storm control. If you know how to do this hit me up in the comments.
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Unicast stormcontrol??
I guess you are referring to broadcast storm-control.
On the interface level;
broadcast-limit [1-99]
where 1 is 1 percent.
You can control unicast with rate limiting however.
Yeah...unicast storm control. I'm guessing it's some type of control that detects a large amount of "one to many" type instances like when a PC becomes a bot in a botnet or something. I've not seen a good description of what unicast storm control is, but it is mentioned in the setup doc.
Hi,
Did you purchase the Premium License for the 5412Zl to be able to use the Layer 3 routing?
We are looking at a similar setup.
Cheers Rich
Yes we did. The switch has been working great. We finally went live with the site on January 5th. So far we've only had one issue and it was resolved by rebooting the switch. The isssue involved some VLAN traffic not correctly reaching destinations it should have had access to.
Thanks for the quick reply Rolfsa Much appreciated.
Cheers Rich
Unicast storm control is disabled by default.
mattias...I didn't run IOMeter when we did the install but we haven't noticed any performance issues. We are depoying an H ProCurve 8212zl next week with another Equallogic so I'll see if I can sneak in some performance testing then.
any particular reason why your switched off Power over Ethernet? I know the EqualLogic doesn't need it but the switch shouldn't supply it if its not demanded by the device?
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