Cisco Switching/Routing :: 6509 / HSRP Migration To VSS With 0 Downtime?
Mar 13, 2012
I have to migrate two Cat6K series switches in a Data center to the new Cisco 6509 Series switches with no downtime. i know there are few threads on the same topic but none of them discuss about the downtime.The two Old Cat6K series switches are working in HSRP redundant mode. All access/Dist switches are dual homed to these two switches in downlink direction. In the uplink direction a router is dual homed to both Switches. Now my requirement is to completely migrate the configuration from the old switches to the new one in VSS mode without any downtime. Already VTP server is running on of the old switches so VLAN migration is not an issue. I will update the network diagram in few hours .As per now i am going to follow these steps:
1. Remove active links from switch 1 and shut it down
2. Monitor network and traffic impact on switch 2
3. Install the new 6509 switch along with switch 2 (VSS config already done in Staging)
4. Config HSRP and make it standby
5. Connect all removed links back to new switch
6. Remove old switch 2 and monitor network
7. Connect new switch with VSS config
8. Connect the two new switches together in VSS and move virtual IP to SVI.
During last step i think i will face some minor packet drops.
I am planning an implementation of VSS on our two 6509 switches, and would like some feedback on things to look out for, and any issues encountered by others that have done this already.
We have the 10Gig port installed on the Management blades, but not configured yet.
Main questions would be:
1: What kind of "down time" am I looking at for the migration? (Reboots, configuration reloads, etc.)
2: I will be saving the configurations on both devices before-hand, but how does the VSS migration "merge" the configurations of both devices?
3: L2 VLANS - we have some on one switch, others on the second switch. Will these be combined, or would this be a manual process?
Any other things of note that I should know about before planning this migration?
We currently run 1 Cisco 6509 (CatOS) for our production network. It has multiple vlans which feed distribution switches on each floor in 2 buildings. Essentially each floor is its own vlan. Each floor switch is connected back to the 6509 via fiber connections. We also have several production vlans that our VMware and AIX environments connect to.
I would like to phase out the the 6509 and replace it with a new 6513 chassis, sup720's etc. Currently it is sitting next to the 6509 in the rack. I need to limit downtime as much as possible but can get one shutdown window over a weekend. However I dont think it would be enough time to move all of the existing etherconnections etc etc
So I am looking to run them both at the same time and slowly migrate over to the 6513 over the next few months.My solution was to use the 6513 (IOS) in L2 mode only for now and trunk it back to the 6509 via 4 1 gig connections in a LACP config.
So the 6509 would still be handling all of the L3 routing for now.Once I had moved all of the fiber and ethernet connections over to the 6513, I would use the shutdown weekend to configure the 6513 for L3 and essentially turn off the 6509 at that point.
My questions are - Is there a better way to do this ? - By trunking the 6513 to the 6509 do I need to worry about any loop issues ? - I am aware of the oversubscription issue for the port channel and have spread the 4 interfaces over the different groups of asics.
I have my hsp setup where switch A and switch B share active/standby roles among several vlans. In the last few weeks, i have seen trouble tickets where connectivity is lost and upon investigation i discover that i can ping physical interface IP addresses for both standby and active devices but not the standby IP. I have also validated configurations and layer 2 paths and they haven't been broken.
What I end up doing is failover to the standby device and back and the problem clears, reachability is restored. My question is whether I am solving this the right way. If so, what is it that would cause the standby IP to not be reachable and how does my solution fix that? N/B the switches are catalyst 6509's.
One of our customer , where there 2 6509 switch , one is Core_sw1 and other is Core_sw2 , catering about 32 Vlan , and HSRP in running for all Vlans , till here no problem , now there internet Router which having one Internet link , which connected and configured on Core_sw1 in a way that one interface of Core_sw1 is given Public IP and there is vlan 85 which internet vlan and vlan 85 ip are natted with that public IP with one simple static route given toward internet router , this is how internet is working ok.
Now i have configured vlan 85 in hsrp as all other are , how can give redundancy to vlan 85 user , that if Core_sw1 get down , internet traffic can get out through Core_sw2.using same internet router with single internet link .i am not talking of ISP redundancy , but Vlan 85 in Core_sw1 goes down , other Core_sw2 will server internet.
Is it possible to upgrade a c3750-stack one member at a time to avoid downtime? I need to keep L3-functionality up.
If I have one etherchannel from access-switch (2 channel-ports in 3750, in different stack-members), my 3750-stack as a distribution layer switch, and another etherchannel (also spread over multiple stack members) to core, can I upgrade the entire stack without traffic interruption?
I have a 5K with 5 downstream 3560's. I now have a new 5k that I would like to add to the existing 5K as a HA peer. What is the best way to accomplish this with the least amount of downtime for the downstream switches.On the 3560's, i plan setting up port-channels once HA is setup on the 5k's.
I have seen conflicting information regarding downtime for this upgrade process and still have questions after reading URL. In this scenario, we have a VSS with one SUP in each chassis.
Are the chassis or modules rebooted one at a time? For instance, if I issue an "issu loadversion", will this just load the code on the SUP in the standby chassis, or will it load the code on the modules as well? If it does load the code on the modules, then I will have to wait the longest time from the "show issue outage slot all" before issuing a "issu runversion", correct?
Also, what outage times have people seeen on modules that support pre-loading? I have not been able to find any documented information on this other than it is faster, and the link referenced above still shows a 5 minutes outage for a warm reset on one of the modules.
I currently have a couple of 6509 chassis (router/switches) with the following hardware blades:
x3 48 ports x1 NAM x2 Sup720 Running 12.2(18)SXF3
I am keeping the four Sup720 modules and have purchased new versions of the others blades including two new 6509-E chassis?Can I take my stand-by Sup720 out of the production machine and insert it into the new chassis?
I currently have a couple of 6509 chassis (router/switches) with the following hardware blades:
x3 48 ports x1 NAM x2 Sup720
Running 12.2(18)SXF3.I am keeping the four Sup720 modules and have purchased new versions of the others blades including two new 6509-E chassis. Can I take my stand-by Sup720 out of the production machine and insert it into the new chassis?
I am facing an isssues with 7609 for LAN switching , based on LAN (VRRP/HSRP) feature.Actually we are having ES+ cards (on 7609) and we are using multiple groups(say 350 vrrp groups) running on the router . the routers are connected as router 1>>> mux(which is working as switches)>>> router2
my questing are
1. does their will be "multicast packets" (for VRRP/HSRP group) "from backup router to Master router", when in stable state( ie when Master and backup are already chosen) , or the packet from backup to master should be unicast.I know for sure, the packet from master to back is multicast packets denstination to Multicast IP packet and To MAC address.I am not sure but I think from backup to master it should be multicast
2. what is frequency of these packets( from backup to master)
3. As i have multiper group on a single interface ( we are using q-in-q), when the connectivity from router's is broken, then does all the groups will muticast their active roll in the lan sengment "at once" or it will be in a groups say 100 groups at once, and after few ms few 100's and sone ( as is on OSPF or RIP)
we are in between troubleshooting I hope we get the ans( Actul problem we are seeing in the router's that we have 2 ports on active routers and 2 ports on standby router , but we are not seeing muticast on 1 port on standby router where as all other 3 ports are seeing multicast packets) [code]
I configure HSRP on Router 2951 as a primary router, and Router 2811 as backup router. But when I am switching off my Primary router the backup router is taking 2 mins to take over form primary router.
We have two Cisco 3560E layer 3 switches at the core of our network. The switches are configured as an HSRP pair and the clients on our network point to the HSRP address as their default gateway. So if CORE-A dies, then CORE-B will pick up the address and the default route for the clients will continue to be available.We also need to specify a few static routes on the core switch to allow us to get to specific networks. Is there a way to do this so that the routes failover in the same way that the default gateway does?
I'm looking to try and implement ipv6 HSRP on a series of IOS-XR Routers running 4.2.1 following on from successfully setting up IPv6 HSRP on a few cat6509s on VLAN Interfaces in other parts of the network. I have entered the "router hsrp" configuration menu and gone into the interface in question that I'm looking to setup with IPv6 HSRP. Unfortunately, there version 2 or address-family ipv6 commands are not available.
if the above design is acceptable how does the routers know which one is active and which one is standby ? if we need a direct connection between two routers they have to be on a seperate subnet and routers dont allow broadcasts - so how will hsrp work on routers ?
We have two numbers of Cisco 4900 ME Switches. Basically want LAN failover from these devices. There are about 400 users in our network. I have attached rough network topology for your reference(I am not good at Microsoft Visio). Need to know implementation of the HSRP in these switches. Two distribution switches(Cisco 4900 ME Switches) are connected to 4 Access switches and these are connected to the LAN.
i have 2 cisco 7604 distrubution routers .Both routers are running 310 hsrp groups.
Sundenly there is hsrp flapping which causes high CPU.
What is the limitation of HSRP group on cisco 7604 router .Below is the show ver from the router
----------------- show version ------------------ Cisco IOS Software, c7600rsp72043_rp Software (c7600rsp72043_rp-ADVIPSERVICES-M), Version 12.2(33)SRC2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
I currently use L3 switches as edge routers to my WAN. I want to use a pair of 3560x switches with IPbase to provide a failover path to my WAN using HSRP at one location but had some problems testing the configuration. My plan is use a virtual address on the LAN interface (VLANx which port gi0/1 accesses) and the WAN interface (VLANy which port gi0/24 accesses). I want switch 1 to be primary since it will have an IPS attached to it, and switch 2 will be backup and used only when switch 1 or the IPS requires maintenance. On both the LAN and WAN sides there is no advanced routing going on, the various hosts just depend on the availability of their respective default gateways, so HSRP should be sufficient to provide a failover in either direction.
In my testing I got 1 or the other link to fail over but not the entire switch. What should my config look like to achieve failover of the entire switch in the event 1 or the other interface goes down, and fail back when the primary links are again available?
n our datacenter we've implemented HSRP on 2 6500's for redundancy purposes. Both switches are connected via a trunk. When an interface is administratively brought up, HSRP becomes instable. Below some selective logging:
12:58:01.759 CET: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan32 Grp 32 state Standby -> Active12:58:01.919 CET: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan21 Grp 21 state Standby -> Active12:58:02.031 CET: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan42 Grp 42 state Standby -> Active12:58:02.031 CET: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan18 Grp 18 state Standby -> Active12:58:02.223 CET: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan4 Grp 4 state Standby -> Active
Basically what happens, is that both switches becomes active and thus are forwarding traffic. After a few seconds all is back to normal. It seems they are missing each others "hello messages", so the state change is in this case normal outcome. What I can't figure out', is the root cause. Since it is triggered by bringing up an random interface configured as a dot1q trunk, I'm thinking of STP limits. But the limitations I found are 10.000 active STP logical ports and 1800 virtual ports per slot. In my case this is 2591 logical ports and all the virtual ports per slot are below 1800. This suggest the switch is capable of running this set-up without a problem.
Some extra information:-Sup 720 10GE-Version 12.2(33)SXH2a-No Vss used-No drops on trunked interfaces between the 2 core switches-83 standby groups (max256) -R-PVST
I just started a evaluation license for IP Base on my 3850 switches. But i can't configure HSRP cause the commands are not there (I rebooted allready). Do you need enterprise for HSRP on the 3850?
Had a Sev 1 issue today. We have a bunch of Nexus 5ks connecting to some HP C7000 Chassis for the use of Virual environments. Engineers build and tear down servers during the day, however today, an engineer configured a virtual machine accidently with its IP address as the default gateway. Each pair of nexus switches has one physical SVI per vlan and a HSRP address for the vlan. Of course this engineer configuring the server IP address as the HSRP address killed the vlan... which lead me onto think... are they are tried and tested techniques to protect this from happening on the switch. Enforcing the ARP/MAC of the HSRP address and not allowing it to change or any other device to change it?
I have a paif of nexus 5548 configured VPC using the mgmt interface as heartbeat and 2x10G as peerlink. Peer-gateway is also configure on the vpc domain. I have 2 FEX straight thru connection to each Nexus'es. Created 2 VPC and both are up and no suspended vlans. Allowed VLANs in peerlink is 10,20,30,40 and 50. I configure SVI for VLAN 10 on both nexus 10.10.10.100/24 and 10.10.10.101/24 respectively. The problem is when I create HSRP on this VLAN 10 (vip 10.10.10.88), the hello packets are not heard by both nexus, thus both Nexus are acting as active with unknown standby. I can ping both vlan 10 from each Nexus. I tried deleting and putting back the config but no luck.I tried creating another SVI vlan 20 on both nexus and form hsrp, result is same as in vlan 10. I am running version 5.1 release on both nexus.
I just started a evaluation license for IP Base on my 3850 switches. But i can't configure HSRP cause the commands are not there (I rebooted allready). Do you need enterprise for HSRP on the 3850?
I have a few old 2600 routers (2621, different IOS's) which I'm now replacing for new one's from the 2900 series (2901, Version 15.1(4)M4).In my configuration I have two IP addresses in my LAN interface and I have HSRP configured within the secondary IP subnet range. It would be something like this:
interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ip address 172.x.x.x x.x.x.x secondary ip address 10.z.z.z z.z.z.z
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Now, in the new 2900 routers, my interface configuration hasn't changed however I can see that the hello packets are now sent with the source within the respective HSRP IP subnet so I had to edit my acl for that:
It looks like both my HSRP Interfaces (VLAN 600 & 700) cycle through standby --> active ---> speak continuously on one of the two switches. What can be causing this?
*May 4 06:41:24.883: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Speak -> Standby *May 4 06:41:33.671: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Standby -> Active *May 4 06:41:33.671: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Active -> Speak *May 4 06:41:34.251: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Speak -> Standby *May 4 06:41:47.691: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Standby -> Active *May 4 06:41:47.703: %HSRP-5-STATECHANGE: Vlan700 Grp 0 state Active -> Speak
Two C2911 routers are connected to LAN and have HSRP configured. HSRP is negotiating successfully (active/standby), but LAN switch Enterasys Matrix E1 has problems accessing the virtual HSRP address. The switch can ping HSRP IP, and the virtual HSRP MAC is visible in its MAC table. But the static routes configured on the switch towards the HSRP IP seem to refuse working. Workaround to enable users to access network was to direct the static routes to the physical IP of one router. Is there a known incompatibility between Enterasys with Cisco HSRP?
