Re: 10GbE to 40GbE Upgrade

Carl Howell <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:53:40 -0500
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It does. Thank you!

--Carl

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 1:36 PM tmac <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> --tmac
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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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