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March 21st, 2023 08:00

S5224F not load-balancing output traffic

Hi Community,

We have the next scenario.

2 x S5224F forming a VLT domain 2 in CPD-2  --> connected to other VLT domain 1 in CPD-1(equal switches)

1 x Qorestor server connected to VLT domain 2 with a static virtual port-channel (one cable to each switch).

 

On the virtual port-channel 21 ports, we see that traffic balancing is done correctly for inbound traffic but not for outbound traffic. Attach information of interfaces, load-balancing and hashing

S5224F-ON (1)

Ethernet 1/1/21:1 is up, line protocol is up
Description: Qorestor
Port is part of Port-channel 21
Hardware is Eth, address is 74:86:e2:75:92:ba
Current address is 74:86:e2:75:92:ba
Pluggable media present, SFP+ type is SFP+ 10GBASE-T
Wavelength is 0
Interface index is 39
Internet address is not set
Mode of IPv4 Address Assignment: not set
Interface IPv6 oper status: Disabled
MTU 9216 bytes, IP MTU 9184 bytes
LineSpeed 10G, Auto-Negotiation off
Flowcontrol rx off tx off
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout: 60
Tag Protocol IDentifier (TPID) value: 0x8100
Last clearing of "show interface" counters: 2 weeks 4 days 23:58:48
Queuing strategy: fifo
Input statistics:
505158710 packets, 2306017791679 octets
232192683 64-byte pkts, 1784412 over 64-byte pkts, 15087500 over 127-byte pkts
167962 over 255-byte pkts, 89890 over 511-byte pkts, 255836263 over 1023-byte pkts
0 Multicasts, 11 Broadcasts, 505158699 Unicasts
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 CRC, 0 overrun, 0 discarded
Output statistics:
1954910822 packets, 13577078862102 octets
75083594 64-byte pkts, 351969759 over 64-byte pkts, 12144942 over 127-byte pkts
49918 over 255-byte pkts, 933574 over 511-byte pkts, 1514729035 over 1023-byte pkts
394091 Multicasts, 55488 Broadcasts, 1954461249 Unicasts
0 throttles, 6 discarded, 0 Collisions, wred drops
Rate Info(interval 30 seconds):
Input 410 Mbits/sec, 5782 packets/sec, 4% of line rate
Output 28 Mbits/sec, 10178 packets/sec, 0% of line rate
Time since last interface status change: 4 days 05:02:34


S5224F-ON (2)

Ethernet 1/1/21:1 is up, line protocol is up
Description: Qorestor
Port is part of Port-channel 21
Hardware is Eth, address is 74:86:e2:75:94:ba
Current address is 74:86:e2:75:94:ba
Pluggable media present, SFP+ type is SFP+ 10GBASE-T
Wavelength is 0
Interface index is 39
Internet address is not set
Mode of IPv4 Address Assignment: not set
Interface IPv6 oper status: Disabled
MTU 9216 bytes, IP MTU 9184 bytes
LineSpeed 10G, Auto-Negotiation off
Flowcontrol rx off tx off
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout: 60
Tag Protocol IDentifier (TPID) value: 0x8100
Last clearing of "show interface" counters: 2 weeks 4 days 20:47:39
Queuing strategy: fifo
Input statistics:
502492133 packets, 2309381492941 octets
228994932 64-byte pkts, 2076808 over 64-byte pkts, 14909474 over 127-byte pkts
167452 over 255-byte pkts, 102419 over 511-byte pkts, 256241048 over 1023-byte pkts
0 Multicasts, 2 Broadcasts, 502492131 Unicasts
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 CRC, 0 overrun, 0 discarded
Output statistics:
12214 packets, 4673373 octets
9 64-byte pkts, 6 over 64-byte pkts, 0 over 127-byte pkts
12199 over 255-byte pkts, 0 over 511-byte pkts, 0 over 1023-byte pkts
12211 Multicasts, 0 Broadcasts, 3 Unicasts
0 throttles, 0 discarded, 0 Collisions, wred drops
Rate Info(interval 30 seconds):
Input 304 Mbits/sec, 4284 packets/sec, 3% of line rate
Output 0 Mbits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0% of line rate
Time since last interface status change: 4 days 05:04:38

 

Load-Balancing Configuration For LAG and ECMP:
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IPV4 Load Balancing : Enabled
IPV6 Load Balancing : Enabled
MAC Load Balancing : Enabled
TCP-UDP Load Balancing : Enabled
Ingress Port Load Balancing : Enabled
IPV4 FIELDS : source-ip destination-ip protocol vlan-id l4-destination-port l4-source-port
IPV6 FIELDS : source-ip destination-ip protocol vlan-id l4-destination-port l4-source-port
MAC FIELDS : source-mac destination-mac ethertype vlan-id
TCP-UDP FIELDS : l4-destination-port l4-source-port

dell#show hash-algorithm
LagAlgo - CRC EcmpAlgo - CRC
dell#

Reviewing Dell documentation, I see that load-balancing and hashing can be configured but at the global switch level, can the changes made affect the rest of the virtual port-channels that I have connected in the VLT domain?

Any idea how to perform troubleshooting?

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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March 22nd, 2023 05:00

Hello EcoIGF,

 

I think this will explain it. Only outbound traffic can be load balanced. Inbound traffic cannot be load balanced.

Load balance will never cross VLTI to use its peer's uplink. So if hosts are active/passive, the active uplink Switch will have all the outbound. That would explain why Switch #2 is 0 on output.

You can configure hosts to equally balance there so it can then equally use its uplinks, not the Switch side. 

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