VSS-Enabled Campus Best Practice Configuration Example
Figure A-1 illustrates the baseline best practice configuration required to set up basic VSS enabled network. The circle indicates the essential steps required to create the VSS systems from standalone. The red text highlights the important CLI information with VSS configuration. Comments are provided in blue italic font.
Figure A-1 Overall VSS-Enabled Campus Best Practice Configuration Summary
End-to-End Device Configurations
The end-to-end devices configuration is categorized into three major sections. Each section configuration contains specific CLI which is a required as part of best practice configuration and corresponding explanation.
- VSS and L2 Domain- Includes above base configuration as well as L2 domain configuration
- Access-layer- Sample L2 domain configuration
- L3 Domain - Includes global L3 configuration for VSS and core routers. Then separate section for specifics topologies (ECMP and MEC) for EIGRP and OSPF. In addition, the core devices configuration shown below are standalone router/devices.
VSS—Multi-Chassis EtherChannel
Layer-3 Domain
The Layer 3 domain represents VSS interconnection to the core-layer. The core-layer devices configuration shown below are standalone router/switch.