Chapter 8

High Availability Through Uplink Failure Detection

This chapter describes how to use Uplink Failure Detection (UFD) to ensure that network resources remain available if one switch is removed for service.

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

„High Availability Overview on page 75

„Failure Detection Pair on page 76

„Spanning Tree Protocol with UFD on page 76

„UFD Configuration Guidelines on page 76

„UFD Configuration Example on page 77

„Monitoring UFD on page 77

High Availability Overview

The EX2500 switch supports high-availability network topologies.

Uplink Failure Detection (UFD) is designed to support Network Adapter Teaming. Network Adapter Teaming allows all the network interface cards (NICs) on each server to share the same IP address. The NICs are configured into a team. One NIC is the primary link, and the other is a standby link.

UFD allows the switch to monitor specific ports (Link to Monitor ports) to detect link failures. When the switch detects a link failure, it automatically disables specific ports (Link to Disable ports). Each corresponding server’s network adapter can detect the disabled port and trigger a network-adapter failover to another port on the switch.

The switch automatically enables the control ports when the monitor ports return to service.

Figure 14 on page 76 shows a basic UFD configuration, with a Failure Detection Pair (FDP) that consists of one LtM (Link to Monitor) and one LtD (Link to Disable). When the switch detects a link failure in the LtM, it disables the ports in the LtD. The servers detect the disabled ports, which triggers a NIC failover.

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