Dell PowerSwitch S4820T 9.50.1 Configuration Guide for the S4820T System - Page 972

- The chassis backup link does not carry control plane information or data traffic. Its use is restricted to health checks only. • Virtual link trunks (VLTs) between access devices and VLT peer switches - To connect servers and access switches with VLT peer switches, you use a VLT port channel, as shown in Overview. Up to 48 port-channels are supported; up to eight member links are supported in each port channel between the VLT domain and an access device. - The discovery protocol running between VLT peers automatically generates the ID number of the port channel that connects an access device and a VLT switch. The discovery protocol uses LACP properties to identify connectivity to a common client device and automatically generates a VLT number for port channels on VLT peers that connects to the device. The discovery protocol requires that an attached device always runs LACP over the port-channel interface. - VLT provides a loop-free topology for port channels with endpoints on different chassis in the VLT domain. - VLT uses shortest path routing so that traffic destined to hosts via directly attached links on a chassis does not traverse the chassis-interconnect link. - VLT allows multiple active parallel paths from access switches to VLT chassis. - VLT supports port-channel links with LACP between access switches and VLT peer switches. Dell Networking recommends using static port channels on VLTi. - If VLTi connectivity with a peer is lost but the VLT backup connectivity indicates that the peer is still alive, the VLT ports on the Secondary peer are orphaned and are shut down. * In one possible topology, a switch uses the BMP feature to receive its IP address, configuration files, and boot image from a DHCP server that connects to the switch through the VLT domain. In the port-channel used by the switch to connect to the VLT domain, configure the port interfaces on each VLT peer as hybrid ports before adding them to the port channel (refer to Connecting a VLT Domain to an Attached Access Device (Switch or Server)). To configure a port in Hybrid mode so that it can carry untagged, single-tagged, and double-tagged traffic, use the portmode hybrid command in Interface Configuration mode as described in Configuring Native VLANs. * For example, if the DHCP server is on the ToR and VLTi (ICL) is down (due to either an unavailable peer or a link failure), whether you configured the VLT LAG as static or LACP, when a single VLT peer is rebooted in BMP mode, it cannot reach the DHCP server, resulting in BMP failure. • Software features supported on VLT port-channels - In a VLT domain, the following software features are supported on VLT port-channels: 802.1p, ingress and egress ACLs, BGP, DHCP relay, IS-IS, OSPF, active-active PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, VRRP, Layer 3 VLANs, LLDP, flow control, port monitoring, jumbo frames, IGMP snooping, sFlow, ingress and egress ACLs, and Layer 2 control protocols RSTP only). NOTE: PVST+ passthrough is supported in a VLT domain. PVST+ BPDUs does not result in an interface shutdown. PVST+ BPDUs for a nondefault VLAN is flooded out as any other L2 multicast packet. On a default VLAN, RTSP is part of the PVST+ topology in that specific VLAN (default VLAN). - For detailed information about how to use VRRP in a VLT domain, refer to the following VLT and VRRP interoperability section. - For information about configuring IGMP Snooping in a VLT domain, refer to VLT and IGMP Snooping. - All system management protocols are supported on VLT ports, including SNMP, RMON, AAA, ACL, DNS, FTP, SSH, Syslog, NTP, RADIUS, SCP, TACACS+, Telnet, and LLDP. - Enable Layer 3 VLAN connectivity VLT peers by configuring a VLAN network interface for the same VLAN on both switches. - Dell Networking does not recommend enabling peer-routing if the CAM is full. To enable peerrouting, a minimum of two local DA spaces for wild card functionality are required. 972 Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)