Best way to provide redundant switching/links to server

Posted by Myles Gray on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Myles Gray
Published on 2013-07-01T14:10:19Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 16:22 UTC
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We have 3x ESX hosts and 2x SANS that we wish to move to a redundant 10G networking infrastructure.

We have 4x Dell PowerConnect 8024F's to provide our backbone and are configured as so (only core switches relevant to this question):

Switching

So the questions are:

1) Do the interconnects between the 4x 8024F's need to be LAG'd or just STP'd

2) As the NICs on the servers are split across 2 switches, does any special configuration need to be done here or on the switches?

3) If a link or switch fails will the switches automatically find a new path to the Server/SAN?

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