VMware vSwitches and Dell PowerConnect BPDU guard
- by dunxd
I am using two Dell PowerConnect 6248 switches to connect a VMware host vSwitch. A discussion of config of Cisco switches for use with VMware advises to set physical ports connected to vSwitch with bpduguard and portfast. However, Dell switches don't have the bpduguard setting for individual ports. I can switch it off globally for all portfast ports, but I don't think I want to do that. Should I:
Disable STP on the vSwitch connected ports?
Leave STP on and enable portfast on the ports, and forget about bpduguard?
Disable bpduguard on all portfast ports via global config
Do something else?
See also: VMware vSwitches and spanning tree