Dell VRTX and R1-2401 VRTX 1Gb Switch Module

Question

Hello,

I am running a VRTX with the R1-2401 VRTX 1Gb Switch Module and having issues with the VLAN settings. I want to Tag the Native VLAN to VLAN10 for all interfaces and make the trunks to VLAN 10 and 100. The issue is when I remove the Native VLAN which is VLAN 1 the whole VRTX is unresponsive. What is the best way to set this up. I have two blades running VMWare ESX and I am testing on the passive blade which has internal ports which are gi2/1, gi2/2, gi2/3, and gi2/4 and external ports gi0/3 and gi 0/4, which my whole environment went down and did not touch the primary blade. Why did this happen? What is the best way to set this up? Can you even set a different Native Vlan other than 1?

I have each physical port hooked up to a Cisco 3750X switch and all ports are configured with VLAN10. See confie below as an example:

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/11
switchport access vlan 10,100
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 10
switchport mode trunk

Am I looking at the VLAN tagging in the wrong fashion?

Thank you for your help.

dcgtechnologies · Accepted Answer

@DELL-Young E​ This post can be closed out. I figured it out on my own. Thank you to all who contributed.

DELL-Young E · Answer

Hello thanks for choosing Dell.

This may take some time to look at- would you be able to send the system's service tag first? You should have a message in your inbox already.

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DELL-Young E · Answer

Also in the meantime, could we request the output from you if possible?

show ip interface

show interface switchport gi 0/1 up to 0/4

show interface switchport gi 2/1 up to 2/4

show vlan

Usually VRTX management IP is set on dedicated 'out-of-band' (OOB) port, but based on your description you might have the management IP on Vlan 1, that is why when you made changes to vlan 1 it interrupted your connectivity.

Respectfully,

dcgtechnologies · Answer

@DELL-Young E​ I sent you a message with the ST. Thank you.

dcgtechnologies · Answer

@DELL-Young E​ Hello,  See below: console#show ip interface     IP Address         I/F      I/F Status      Type       Status                                admin/oper------------------- ---------- ------------- ----------- -----------192.168.10.x/24     oob        UP/UP         Static      Valid   Gateway IP Address      Type----------------------- --------192.168.10.1            static console#show interface switchport gi 0/1 up to 0/4% Wrong number of parameters or invalid range, size or characters entered console#show interface switchport gi 2/1 up to 2/4% Wrong number of parameters or invalid range, size or characters enteredconsole# console#show vlanCreated by: D-Default, S-Static, G-GVRP, R-Radius Assigned VLAN, V-Voice VLAN Vlan       Name                   Ports               Created by---- ----------------- --------------------------- ---------------- 1           1         gi0/1-8,gi1/1-4,gi2/1-4,           S                       gi3/1-4,gi4/1-4,Po1-12 10  Internal_NW  gi0/1-8,gi1/1-4,gi2/1-4        100  Mgmt_Net   gi0/1-8,gi1/1-4,gi2/1-4          S     work console# I would like the VRTX to be on VLAN10 for the native VLAN and be able to pass traffic through the other VLANS such as VLAN 20,30, etc. Right now everytime I set it the VRTX just dies. Thank you for your help.

DELL-Chris H · Answer

dcgtechnologies,

For the commands that returned the error "Wrong number of parameters or invalid range, size or characters entered", Youngah was stating to run the show interface command for gi 0/1 through gi 0/4, that "up to" wasn't a specific command.

Now assuming that VLAN 10 is the native VLAN, VLANs 20, 30, etc. are tagged, and Uplink is on GigabitEthernet 0/1 then the following commands should work for you:

console# configure
console(config)# vlan database
console(config-vlan)# vlan 10
console(config-vlan)# vlan 20
console(config-vlan)# vlan 30
console(config-vlan)# exit

console(config)# interface gi0/1
console(config-if)# switchport mode trunk
console(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,20,30
console(config-if)# switchport trunk native vlan 10
console(config-if)# no shutdown
console(config-if)# exit

console(config)# interface range gi0/2 - gi0/4
console(config-if-range)# switchport mode access
console(config-if-range)# switchport access vlan 10
console(config-if-range)# no shutdown
console(config-if-range)# exit

console(config)# exit
console# write memory

Let me know if this helps.

dcgtechnologies · Answer

Hi Chris,

I follow you now and here is what I have for each interface. See below:

console#show interface switchport gi 0/1
Gathering information...

Name: gi0/1
Switchport: enable
Administrative Mode: trunk
Operational Mode: up
Access Mode VLAN: 1
Access Multicast TV VLAN: none
Trunking Native Mode VLAN: 1
Trunking VLANs Enabled: 1,10,100
2-9,11-99,101-4094 (Inactive)
General PVID: 1
General VLANs Enabled: none
General Egress Tagged VLANs Enabled: none
General Forbidden VLANs: none
General Ingress Filtering: enabled
General Acceptable Frame Type: all
General GVRP status: disabled
Customer Mode VLAN: none
Customer Multicast TV VLANs: none
Private-vlan promiscuous-association primary VLAN: none
Private-vlan promiscuous-association Secondary VLANs Enabled: none
Private-vlan host-association primary VLAN: none
Private-vlan host-association Secondary VLAN Enabled: none
DVA: disable

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