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Tom_Hurst
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Aug 21, 2018

Slow data transfer between the Internal VLAN and Appnet VLAN.

Izar/Polaris Network Layout: Big/IP LTM 7000 (Model D110) running F5 OS 12.1.2 - Engineering Hotfix HF1

 

Spine 1 and Spine 2 devices are Cisco Nexus 9000 C9396PX running NXOS 7.0(3)12(2a).

 

Software BIOS: version 07.34

 

NXOS: version 7.0(3)I2(2a)

 

BIOS compile time: 08/11/2015

 

NXOS image file is: bootflash:///nxos.7.0.3.I2.2a.bin

 

NXOS compile time: 12/14/2015 4:00:00 [12/14/2015 07:23:53]

 

Hardware cisco Nexus9000 C9396PX Chassis

 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3- CPU @ 2.50GHz with 16401956 kB of memory.

 

Processor Board ID SAL19017B8S

 

Spine 1 and Spine 2 Configurations:

 

Spine1:

 

vlan 10

 

name 10Net-Data

 

vlan 700

 

name ASM-BigIP

 

vlan 710

 

name BigIP-ExchNet

 

interface port-channel11

 

description "Spine to Izar Internal"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 11

 

interface port-channel12

 

description "Spine to Polaris Internal"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 12

 

interface port-channel700

 

description "Spine to Izar Appnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 700

 

interface port-channel701

 

description "Spine to Polaris Appnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 701

 

interface port-channel710

 

description "Spine to Izar Exchnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 710

 

interface port-channel711

 

description "Spine to Polaris Exchnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 711

 

interface Ethernet1/17

 

description "Izar Internal"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 11 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/18

 

description "Polaris Internal"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 12 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/19

 

description "Izar Appnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 700 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/20

 

description "Polaris Appnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 701 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/21

 

description "Izar Exchnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 710 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/22

 

description "Polaris Exchnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 711 mode active

 

Spine2:

 

vlan 10

 

name 10Net-Data

 

vlan 700

 

name ASM-BigIP

 

vlan 710

 

name BigIP-ExchNet

 

interface port-channel11

 

description "Spine to Izar Internal"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 11

 

interface port-channel12

 

description "Spine to Polaris Internal"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 12

 

interface port-channel700

 

description "Spine to Izar Appnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 700

 

interface port-channel701

 

description "Spine to Polaris Appnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 701

 

interface port-channel710

 

description "Spine to Izar Exchnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 710

 

interface port-channel711

 

description "Spine to Polaris Exchnet"

 

switchport mode trunk

 

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

 

vpc 711

 

interface Ethernet1/17

 

description "Izar Internal"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 11 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/18

 

description "Polaris Internal"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 12 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/19

 

description "Izar Appnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 700 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/20

 

description "Polaris Appnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 701 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/21

 

description "Izar Exchnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 710 mode active

 

interface Ethernet1/22

 

description "Polaris Exchnet"

 

no cdp enable

 

switchport mode trunk

 

channel-group 711 mode active

 

3 Replies

  • TESTING RESULTS:

     

    Izar is Primary. Polaris is Secondary.

     

    Test results using Iperf3 while testing bandwidth through the Big/IP units:

     

    result VLAN

     

    Client VLAN APPnet

     

    Server VLAN APPnet

     

    Results: 8.3 Gb/s and 7.7 Gb/s

     

    Client VLAN Internal

     

    Server VLAN Appnet

     

    Results: 48 Mb/s and 27.1 Mb/sand 46 Mb/s

     

    Client VLAN Internal

     

    Server VLAN Internal

     

    Results: 2.04 Gb/s and 1.77 Gb/s

     

    Client VLAN Exchnet

     

    Server VLAN Exchnet

     

    Results: 9.4 Gb/s

     

    Client VLAN Exchnet

     

    Server VLAN Appnet

     

    Results: 836 Mb/s and 903 Mb/s

     

  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    A diagram and some hints on how you have configured your BigIP's would be useful.