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STP may cause temporary loss of network connectivity when a failover or failback event occurs (1003804)

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Symptoms

In a switched network environment which uses Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), you experience these symptoms:

An ESXi or ESX host temporarily loses network connectivity when a failover or failback event occurs.

Virtual machines temporarily lose network connectivity when a failover or failback event occurs.

A VMware High Availability (HA) isolation event occurs after one of the teamed NICs of the COS is unplugged and plugged in to a different port.

Resolution

STP is used to accomplish a loop-free environment. Every time a port state goes up, STP calculation occurs. As the result of the calculation, the switch ports are either set to a forwarding or blocking state to prevent a traffic loop. STP topology convergence has four states:

Blocking

Listening

Learning

Forwarding

When STP convergence is initiated it forces all of the physical switches in the STP domain to dump their forwarding tables and relearn the STP topology and all MAC addresses. This process can take between 30-50 seconds. During this time, no user data passes through the port. Some user applications can time out during this period. Connectivity is restored when the STP domain completes this convergence.

To prevent the 30-50 second loss of connectivity during STP convergence, perform one of these options:

To set STP to Portfast on all switch ports that are connected to network adapters on an ESXi/ESX host

Portfast allows the ports to immediately be set back to the forwarding state and prevents the link state changes that occur on ESX/ESXi hosts from affecting the STP topology. Setting STP to Portfast prevents the 30-50 second loss of network connectivity.

The command to set STP to Portfast depends on the model of the switch. As the command is different from model to model and vendor to vendor, c ontact your physical switch vendor for more detailed information on how to configure the same.

For example:

To set STP to Portfast on a switch, run the below command based on the switch model:

CISCO-IOS

spanning-tree portfast (for an access port)
spanning-tree portfast trunk (for a trunk port)

NX-IOS

spanning-tree port type edge (for an access port)
spanning-tree port type edge trunk (for a trunk port)

To set STP to Portfast on a Dell switch, run the command:

spanning-tree portfast

HP switches use a feature called admin-edge-port, which works the same way as Portfast or RSTP.

To enable admin-edge-port, run the command:

spanning-tree port-list admin-edge-port

To disable STP

VMware does not typically recommend that you disable STP. However, to prevent this issue from occurring, it may be necessary to disable STP. Before you disable STP, contact your switch vendor.

The command to disable STP depends on the switch. Contact your switch vendor for more detailed information.

For example:

To disable STP on a Nortel switch, run the command:

config ethernet stg stp disable

Related Information

See also Understanding the BPDU Filter feature in vSphere (2047822) .

For more information, see Spanning Tree Commands in Cisco NX-IOS.

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol has replaced Spanning Tree Protocol. For more information, see the white paper Understand Rapid Spanning Tree protocol (802.1w) from Cisco.

Note: The preceding links was correct as of April 27, 2015. If you find the link is broken, provide feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.

Sample Configuration - ESX/ESXi connecting to physical switch via VLAN access mode and External Switch VLAN Tagging (EST Mode)
发生故障切换或故障恢复事件时 STP 可能会导致网络连接暂时断开
フェイルオーバーまたはフェイルバック イベントが発生すると、STP により一時的にネットワークから切断される場合がある
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