Re: 10GbE to 40GbE Upgrade

Add in the cards.
Configure a new port-channel with 40Gb ports
Add any VLANs to the new port channel
Add the VLANs to the broadcast-domains as needed
Migrate all LIFs off the the original ifgrp
remove the 10Gb LIFs/ports from the broadcast domains

Make sense?


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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:22 PM Carl Howell <[email protected]> wrote:

> We currently have an A300 cluster, each node has 2x10GbE interfaces in a
> multimode_lacp ifgrp connected to 2xCisco 9K's. We are upgrading each node
> with 2x40GbE interfaces. The question is how best to go about doing
> the upgrade?
>
> It would of course be nice if we could just add the 40GbE interfaces to
> the current port channels and ifgrp's, but I don't think the 9K's will
> allow us to mix speeds in a port channel. Perhaps it's possible on the 9K
> side to set the new interfaces to 10GbE, add them to the ifgrp's and port
> channels, drop the original 10GbE interfaces out and raise the speed on the
> new interfaces up to 40GbE. . .
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> --Carl
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