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silvajai_01_131
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Aug 19, 2013

Active/Standby Trunk Port Migration

I need to migrate the internal based trunks on the Ha pair from 1Gbe copper to 10Gbe fiber and had a few questions.   Does the physical network connections have to be the same on both cluster memb...
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Aug 20, 2013

My plan is to perform the migration on the standby unit first. I plan on removing the existing trunk that contains the tagged vlans and then replace it with new 10gbe based trunk supporting the same tagged vlans. Once I verify that the health monitors are able to reach the support nodes, I plan on failing over from the active node to the standby and doing the same thing on the previously active node. This should avoid the stp looping issue that you described.