Saturday, January 5, 2013

Brocade: Stacking Two FCX Switches

Im not sure if I have gone over this or not, but I thought Id run over how to configure a stack on a pair of Brocade FCX switches.  That means using the two cables on the back on the 16G ports of the units.  This below is the process I went through.  This was a real live capture of what I did the other day when I put two of these together.  The first FCX was already in place and I added a second FCX for redundancy. 


CoreStack#config t
CoreStack(config)#stack enable
Enable stacking. This unit actively participates in stacking
CoreStack(config)#exit
CoreStack#stack secure-setup
CoreStack#Discovering the stack topology...

Current Discovered Topology - RING

Available UPSTREAM units
Hop(s)  Id   Type       Mac Address
1       new  FCX648S    0024.38c2.1111

Available DOWNSTREAM units
Hop(s)  Id   Type       Mac Address
1       new  FCX648S    0024.38c2.1111

Do you accept the topology (RING) (y/n)?: y

Selected Topology:
Active  Id   Type       Mac Address
        1    FCX648S    0024.38c3.2222

Selected UPSTREAM units
Hop(s)  Id   Type       Mac Address
1       2    FCX648S    0024.38c2.1111

Selected DOWNSTREAM units
Hop(s)  Id   Type       Mac Address
1       2    FCX648S    0024.38c2.1111

Do you accept the unit id's (y/n)?: y
CoreStack#Election, was alone --> active, ID=1, priority=128, total 2 u, active=u1
reset unit 2: diff bootup id=1
Unit 1 loses all neighbors.
Active unit 1 deletes u2 and its config because it is learned.

Election, was alone --> active, ID=1, priority=128, total 2 u, active=u1
Detect stack unit 2 has different startup config flash, will synchronize it
Done hot swap: active controller unit 1 sets unit 2 to Ready.
Synchronize startup config to stack unit 2

Config changed due to add/del units. Do write mem if you want to keep it
Stack unit 2 Power supply 1 is up
Stack unit 2 Power supply 2 is down

CoreStack#config t
CoreStack(config)#
CoreStack(config)#stack mac 0024.38c3.2222
CoreStack(config)#hitless-failover en
CoreStack(config)#
CoreStack(config)#exit
CoreStack#wr mem
.Write startup-config done.
CoreStack#Flash Memory Write (8192 bytes per dot) .
Flash to Flash Done.
CoreStack#

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