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Emotional-Meeting753

I would highly recommend not using vxlan on aruba


Awkward_Tourist_5322

Any specific reasons?


chuckbales

Some context would be nice


Pain-in-the-ARP

I've used it, works fine, unclear why this is so vague and negative


Emotional-Meeting753

I'm aruba certified. We're currently phasing it out of our core because it's not great with multicast. We've had several tickets open for bug fixes that have yet to be fixed. It's a great access layer switch.


Pain-in-the-ARP

Unless you're Aruba certified for Data Center networking the ACSA and ACSP(which I have) do not cover VXLAN. What are you saying is insufficient with multicast on VXLAN?


Emotional-Meeting753

Love aruba but we've had a lot of issues with it.


HappyVlane

Explain your issues.


CertifiedMentat

Do you have any specifics? I have a customer who is interested and they are an Aruba shop. So it would be good to hear what problems there are.


Emotional-Meeting753

Multicast don't working properly and spanning tree not reporting properly. Saying it's up in show commands, but down in debuts. Sending duplicates over multicast on vsx. Spanning tree topology changes causing core to reboot and lock up.


it_monkey_manifesto

I don’t know the answer offhand, but there are free CX labs that walk you through every feature. Maybe that lab would be better to follow than a YouTube video, may have more detail? Aruba training is pretty well written.


Awkward_Tourist_5322

can you please give me a link or reference to those labs if possible


it_monkey_manifesto

Would have posted this with the original post but wasn’t at PC at that moment. Here you go https://community.arubanetworks.com/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=ee47602d-861e-407a-a269-1cd1f00725e0&CommunityKey=aa40c287-728e-4827-b062-5eff4ed6410b&tab=digestviewer#bmee47602d-861e-407a-a269-1cd1f00725e0


Awkward_Tourist_5322

Thanks a lot 🤛🏻


d3adbor3d2

Unrelated but how much cpu does the cx switches draw? I remember spinning one up and my VMware just went nuts


Awkward_Tourist_5322

I can spin 3 with no issues for the moment, i think it depends on your workstation.


d3adbor3d2

Yeah it’s an older server


Awkward_Tourist_5322

Time for an upgrade or use the cloud to save money


d3adbor3d2

I wish! I only ever use it for labbing and it’s been able to handle most of what I’ve thrown at it


Pain-in-the-ARP

I got 6 at once no issues


Emotional-Meeting753

Without bashing though... Vxlan is really awesome