HP Procurve: interconnect trunk command

Deathmage

Any here use HP Procurves and know the cross-stack etherchannel command structure for making a 10gbit interconnect; it appears HP refers to it as distributed trunking. I can't find documentation anywhere, and I'd like to link my 2910al's at home with these 10gbit interconnects (InterSwitch-Connect).

I'm doing testing with these Procurves to get the commands down to a science so I can re-produce this in a production environment. I'd like to do this with Cisco switch for well work, but they cost way too much, so I need to find a flexible alternative and HP's seems like them..

J_86

Etherchannel is a Cisco thing, sounds what you are looking for is LACP. Section 12 of this : http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02564351-3&docLocale=

Make sure you configure it BEFORE you connect cables

2000+ locations and 1000's of switches in my environment and 95% of them are HP. I'm not one to bash Cisco, they are number 1 in networking for a reason, but HP doesn't have some of the headaches Cisco does. You want to upgrade the firmware on your HP switch? No problem and no contract needed! hp.com/networking . They also have a lifetime hardware warranty on switches.

Concerned Water

I used HP A5500's at a previous job. I never got to use aggregation with them. I will say HP is a pain, but gets easier after a while.

I shared a helpful Cisco and HP reference pdf. Chapter 17 might help.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/45bzjzy4atkx7j9/Cisco%20and%20HP%20command%20reference.pdf?dl=0

Deathmage

thanks brother!