Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 6600 Configuring High Availability VLANs, This Chapter

3Configuring High Availability VLANs

High availability (HA) VLANs, unlike standard VLANs, allow you to send traffic intended for a single destination MAC address to multiple switch ports. These high availability VLANs can be used to manage server clusters.

In This Chapter

This chapter describes the basic components of high availability VLANs and how to configure them through the Command Line Interface (CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for more details about the syntax of commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.

Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:

•Creating a VLAN on page 3-9.

•Adding ingress ports to a high availability VLAN on page 3-10.

•Adding egress ports to a high availability VLAN on page 3-12.

•Adding MAC addresses to a high availability VLAN on page 3-13.

•Configuring inter-switch ports for HA VLANs on page 3-14.

•Configuring the ingress flood queue bandwidth on page 3-15

Note. You can also configure and monitor high availability VLANs with WebView, Alcatel’s embedded web-based device management application. WebView is an interactive and easy-to-use GUI that can be launched from OmniVista or a web browser. Please refer to WebView’s online documentation for more information on configuring and monitoring high availability VLANs with WebView.

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