802.3ad MultiMode Dynamic VIF and an HP Procurve Switch

These are the configs to get LACP and 802.1q working between a NetApp and HP Procurve. An HP "Trunk". There are other ways to configure this, but after an e-mail to NetApp and phone call to HP, it sounds like this is the "preferred" way to configure the two devices together.

You will notice that VLAN 1 is tagged on the HP Procurve Trunks. VLAN 1 must be tagged or the NetApp will not communicate over it. By default it is not tagged on HP or Cisco switches.

IP addresses, VLAN Numbers and Hostnames have been changed.

/ETC/RC

hostname NAS01

vif create lacp vif0 e0a e0b

vlan create vif0 1 10

ifconfig vif0-1 `hostname`-vif0-1 netmask 255.255.255.0 wins

ifconfig vif0-10 `hostname`-vif0-10 netmask 255.255.255.0 wins

route add default 192.168.1.1 1

routed on

options.dns.enable on

options.nis.enable off

savecore

/ETC/HOSTS

127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.1.2 NAS01 NAS01-vif0-1

10.0.0.2 NAS01 NAS01-vif0-10

Below is the HP config. Before you run the Trunk (ports) (trunkname) lacp command for the ports connected to the Filer, you need to drop down to each interface and run "lacp passive". I know it doesn't show up in the config, but if you run the trunk command without the LACP passive command it will place "LACP Active" in the configuration. I was unable to get the Trunk to come up properly when this was in place. Also, you'll want to turn Flow Control on for the ports the NAS is using.

Running configuration:

; J9022A Configuration Editor; Created on release #N.11.15

interface 25

name "NAS01e0a"

flow-control

exit

interface 26

name "NAS01e0b"

flow-control

exit

trunk 25-26 Trk1 LACP

vlan 1

name "Production"

untagged 1-20,27-36,Trk4-Trk6

ip address 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0

tagged Trk1

no untagged Trk2-Trk3

exit

vlan 10

name "Storage"

untagged Trk2-Trk3

no ip address

tagged Trk1

exit