Hello All,
I have a question.
I have a Dell M1000 chassis with a Dell Blade M600. I'm trying to use the software VLAN tagging in ESX to avoid putting VLANs on any of my switch ports. This way I can have several VLANs on the same ESX server out the same NIC.
VM NIC1 tagged in ESX with VLAN 20 -> vSwitch1-> M600 NIC #1 -> port G1 on M6200 -> port G17 on M6220 -> Port 9 on Cisco
So far, I have all 3 ports in trunking mode but it does not work. I'll paste my cisco config below and I've configured the M6220 via the web interface.
My cisco config is as follows, everything else is normal. I know I'm probably missing some things, I've seen people use native VLANs, vtp transparent, nonegotiate. Not sure if I need any of that.
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Hello.
See if kb 1004074 or kb 1006628 can help.
Good Luck!
They use the nonneogiate option on the ciscos but other than that I'm still not sure how to configure the M6220's
Still need more info 😕
Thank you
Try a switch config like the one below....we use Cisco 6509s
interface GigabitEthernet3/1
description VMware - ESX_VM_TRAFFIC
switchport
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 1 #set to your ESX SC vlan or any vlan not being used by a VM
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30 #VM VLANs
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
speed 1000
duplex full
spanning-tree portfast trunk
spanning-tree bpduguard enable
end
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Again.. I'm looking for help with the Broadcom M6220's.. there is very poor documentation that I can find on them. I was hoping someone had a similar setup.
Figured it out...
On the Cisco side..
interface Gigabitblah
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 4000
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
spanning-tree portfast trunk
On the M6220 side..
interface ethernet 1/g1
switchport mode general
switchport general allowed vlan add 10,20,30 tagged
interface ethernet 1/g17
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,20,30