from between the two groups created earlier. The traffic from the blade servers that are connected to internal ports belonging to Group 1 will use LAG, including those external ports that are part of that group. This applies to the blade servers in Group 2 as well.

Figure 5 illustrates the completed configuration for Scenario 4.

Figure 5: Graphic representation of Scenario 4.

Scenario 5: Adding VLANs in a multi-AG configuration

In this section, we provide an overview of adding VLANs in a multi-AG

configuration, which combine the advantages of virtual network

administration with physical network separation. We provide detailed

instructions in Appendix A.

1.On the Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch, enter the Port Configuration screen, and change the group ID of ports to Group 2 (we changed ports 1/xg9-1/xg16 and ports 1/xg23-1/xg24 to Group 2).

2.Enter the Internal Port VLAN configuration screen, select a port, and add several tagged VLANs (we changed port 1/xg1 to include VLANs 101-102 and port 1/xg9 to include VLANs 103-104).

3.On the Cisco Nexus 5010 switches, create two two-port channel groups with LACP enabled. Make sure that the two port channels include the VLANs you configured earlier (we configured VLANs 101-102 for the first port channel and VLANs 103-104 for the second port channel).

4.Connect the cables. The Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch will automatically make two two-port LAGs, separating the traffic from between the two groups created earlier, while allowing for further segregation through VLANs.

Figure 6 illustrates the completed configuration for Scenario 5.

How to deploy the Dell M8024 family of switches in a Cisco Nexus network

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