<div dir="auto">Hi,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unless your switches support some flavour of MEC (Multichassis Etherchannel) like VPC or MLAG from other vendors your other options are stacking on your end if supported.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Another option is having the Customer do active/standby fail over on the server. Esxi can be easily set up to have links in standby. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, 9:19 AM James Cunningham <<a href="mailto:jjazza26@gmail.com">jjazza26@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Fellow Ausnoggers,<div><br></div><div>I'm hoping that I can quickly pick the brain of someone more knowledgeable in data centre networking than myself.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a customer in one of our racks in Equinix who has a single network switch, and some servers connected to it. We currently have two connections from our switch to the customer's switch, with LACP for redundancy (and as a side effect, we get a slight bandwidth boost for 2 x 1Gbps connections, which is a slight bonus).</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to improve this by putting in two network switches on our end, to protect again a single switch failure on our side, but the customer will still have one single network switch.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure we can't do LACP with this style of setup - so what would people recommend to achieve redundancy here? Main thing is that the connection needs to auto-failover if a network switch fails, or if one of the uplinks fails.</div><div><br></div><div>I have created the attached diagram which illustrates what we are trying to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone please help? I'll owe a beer at the Next AusNOG meetup!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>James </div></div>
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