Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 6600 User Manual

Release 5.1.6.R02 User Guide Supplement

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High availability (HA) VLANs, unlike standard VLANs, allow you to send traffic intended for a single 
destination MAC address to multiple switch ports. These high availability VLANs can be used to manage 
server clusters.

This chapter describes the basic components of high availability VLANs and how to configure them 
through the Command Line Interface (CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for 
more details about the syntax of commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.

Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:

• Creating a VLAN on 

.

• Adding ingress ports to a high availability VLAN on 

• Adding egress ports to a high availability VLAN on 

.

• Adding MAC addresses to a high availability VLAN on 

.

• Configuring inter-switch ports for HA VLANs on 

• Configuring the ingress flood queue bandwidth on 

Note. You can also configure and monitor high availability VLANs with WebView, Alcatel’s embedded 
web-based device management application. WebView is an interactive and easy-to-use GUI that can be 
launched from OmniVista or a web browser. Please refer to WebView’s online documentation for more 
information on configuring and monitoring high availability VLANs with WebView.