Cleaning up
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:01 am
Today I spent about four hours cleaning up our main distribution rack in the data center. I am using a WS-12-250a and a WS-24-250a to consolidate all of the PoE devices. Prior to the clean up there was a hodge podge PoE adapters for a mix of air fibers and exalt g2 links as well as a digital loggers poe... I'm having trouble locating a before picture but I'm sure I'll find one and add it later.
Here is how I ended today.
Here are a couple of shots showing the configuration and the WS12 pumping out over 600Mb
the WS is acting as a mid-span for the G2's and the AF. I'm trunking all the Rocket M5's back on a single port. I'll eventually trunk 2 or three of the G2 links back on a single port but wanted to ease in to that. Ultimately I'd like to play with running a single 2Gb or 3Gb LACP/LAG group back to the router(s) and trunk all the vlan's over that.
Chris, I'm trusting you here! My entire network is riding on one single switch! I'll migrate a few of the links to the WS24 soon instead of everything important running on the WS12.
I'm still devising a plan but I'll probably do something like North-South links on one switch and East-West links on the other.
The goal as we are building out will be to have a connection (ring) between the N-S and E-W links so if something fails things keep trucking.
I'll have to add an additional MPLS & Core router in the DC also to get full redundancy as well.
Here is how I ended today.
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Here are a couple of shots showing the configuration and the WS12 pumping out over 600Mb
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the WS is acting as a mid-span for the G2's and the AF. I'm trunking all the Rocket M5's back on a single port. I'll eventually trunk 2 or three of the G2 links back on a single port but wanted to ease in to that. Ultimately I'd like to play with running a single 2Gb or 3Gb LACP/LAG group back to the router(s) and trunk all the vlan's over that.
Chris, I'm trusting you here! My entire network is riding on one single switch! I'll migrate a few of the links to the WS24 soon instead of everything important running on the WS12.
I'm still devising a plan but I'll probably do something like North-South links on one switch and East-West links on the other.
The goal as we are building out will be to have a connection (ring) between the N-S and E-W links so if something fails things keep trucking.
I'll have to add an additional MPLS & Core router in the DC also to get full redundancy as well.
