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  • ArubaOS-CX Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) Guide for 10.03
    • Home
    • About this document
      • Applicable products
      • Latest version available online
      • About the examples
      • Switch prompts in examples
    • Upgrading to the latest version of VSX
      • Upgrading VSX from 10.02 to 10.03
        • Upgrading switches by using the vsx update-software command
      • Upgrading VSX from 10.01 to 10.03
        • Performing a rolling upgrade
        • Upgrading both switches at the same time
    • Getting started with VSX
      • Benefits of VSX
      • VSX solution topology overview
        • VSX LAG
        • VSF
        • VSF versus VSX
        • The common system MAC address
      • VSX solution requirements
      • VSX components
      • Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
        • ISL configurations
      • Switch roles
      • VSX switch reboot
      • Periodic synchronization
      • BFD and VSX support
    • Setting up the VSX environment
      • VSX in the core layer
      • Configuring core 1 and core 2 for VSX
      • Configuring the two aggregate VSX switches
      • Configuring an ArubaOS-CX switch as an access switch
    • Enabling VSX configuration synchronization
      • VSX configuration synchronization
      • Enabling VSX synchronization at the global level
      • Enabling VSX synchronization at the context level
      • Enabling VSX synchronization of STP configurations between VSX peer switches
    • Monitoring the VSX environment
      • Ways to view the status of VSX
      • Consistency checking between VSX switches
      • Viewing the show commands for both VSX switches from one switch
    • Preventing traffic loss
      • Link-up delay
        • The link-up delay timer during an ISL failure
      • Split brain scenario
      • Keepalive
        • Keepalive response in ISL failure scenarios
        • Keepalive scenario
        • Keepalive configurations
        • Recommended network configuration for keepalive
      • Active gateway and active forwarding
        • Active-active layer 2
        • Active-active layer 3 default gateway
        • Active gateway over VSX
          • Active gateway configurations
        • VRRP with VSX configuration
        • Active forwarding
          • Deployment options for upstream connectivity with active-active forwarding
        • Active forwarding and SVI per VRF
        • Benefits of active forwarding and active gateway
      • Virtual active gateway
        • Supported services on a virtual active gateway SVI
        • Unsupported services for a virtual active gateway SVI
        • Sample virtual active gateway configuration
      • Active-standby DHCP relay
        • DHCP relay failure if the SVI is down on the primary switch
      • Split recovery mode
      • IGMP snooping
      • DHCP relay backup
      • IP multicast routing
    • STP over VSX
      • Supported STP modes
      • How STP works with VSX
      • MSTP
        • MSTP configurations
          • Sample configurations for MSTP on VSX
          • VSX and MSTP loop-protect configurations (physical and logical views)
        • Show commands for MSTP
        • MSTP with VSX guidelines
      • RPVST
        • Sample RPVST configuration with VSX
          • VSX switch with RPVST, as root and nonroot
          • Configuring a VSX switch as root for one or more RPVST instances
        • Show commands for RPVST
          • How the Multi-Chassis role works
        • RPVST with VSX guidelines
    • Upstream connectivity
      • Upstream connectivity options
      • Upstream routing over VSX LAG SVI links
    • Troubleshooting
      • ISL is out-of-sync
      • ISL is in blocking state
      • Traffic drop on a VSX LAG interface
      • Traffic loss after the ISL has been out-of-sync and keepalive is down
      • Failure scenarios and split recovery
      • BFD reports a LAG as down even when healthy links are still available
    • VSX commands
      • active-gateway
      • config-sync disable
      • interface lag multi-chassis
      • inter-switch-link {<PORT-NUM> | lag <LAG-ID>}
      • inter-switch-link dead-interval
      • inter-switch-link hello-interval
      • inter-switch-link hold-time
      • inter-switch-link peer-detect-interval
      • ip icmp redirect
      • keepalive dead-interval
      • keepalive hello-interval
      • keepalive peer
      • keepalive udp-port
      • lacp fallback
      • linkup-delay-timer
      • linkup-delay-timer exclude lag-list
      • role {primary | secondary}
      • show interface <VLAN-NAME>
      • show lacp aggregates
      • show lacp interfaces
      • show lacp interfaces multi-chassis
      • show running-config interface
      • show running-config vsx
      • show running-config vsx-sync
      • show running-config vsx-sync peer-diff
      • show vsx active-forwarding
      • show vsx brief
      • show vsx config-consistency
      • show vsx config-consistency lacp
      • show vsx configuration
      • show vsx configuration split-recovery
      • show vsx ip data-path
      • show vsx ip route
      • show vsx ipv6 data-path
      • show vsx ipv6 route
      • show vsx status
      • show vsx status config-sync
      • split recovery
      • system-mac
      • vsx
      • vsx-sync
      • vsx-sync {[access-lists] [qos] [rate-limits] [vlans] [policies] [irdp]}
      • vsx-sync aaa
      • vsx active-forwarding
      • vsx-sync {[active-gateways] [policies]}
      • vsx-sync bfd-global
      • vsx-sync copp-policy
      • vsx-sync dcb-global (8325 series switches only)
      • vsx-sync dhcp-relay
      • vsx-sync dhcp-server
      • vsx-sync dhcpv6-server
      • vsx-sync dns
      • vsx-sync lldp
      • vsx-sync loop-protect-global
      • vsx-sync mclag-interfaces
      • vsx-sync qos-global
      • vsx-sync sflow
      • vsx-sync snmp
      • vsx-sync ssh
      • vsx-sync static-routes
      • vsx-sync stp-global
      • vsx-sync time
      • vsx-sync udp-forwarder
      • vsx update-software
      • vsx-sync vsx-global
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