Port Channel: Description

The feature let you know the “description” per EFA port-channel which further gets configured on the SLX port-channel. The default value of PO “description” is “EFA Port-channel <efa-po-name>”.

You can provide the PO “description” during PO create and PO update operations.

2.3.2 to 2.4.0 Upgrade Handling

All the POs upgraded from EFA 2.3.2 to EFA 2.4.0 version must have the default “description” and is displayed as part of efa tenant po show --detail.

Port-Channel Create

efa tenant po create --name <po-name> --tenant <tenant-name> --description <po-description> 
               --speed <100Mbps|1Gbps|10Gbps|25Gbps|40Gbps|100Gbps> --negotiation <active|passive|static> 
	--port <list-of-po-members> --min-link-count <min-link-count> --number <po-number> --lacp-timeout <short|long>

Port-Channel Update

efa tenant po update --name <po-name> --tenant <tenant-name> 
              --operation <port-add|port-delete|lacp-timeout|description|min-link-count>
              --port <list-of-po-members> --lacp-timeout string <short|long> --min-link-count <min-link-count> 
              --description <po-description>

Example

efa tenant po create --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --port 10.20.246.15[0/1],10.20.246.16[0/1] --speed 10Gbps --negotiation active --description tenant1po1


efa tenant po create --name ten1po2 --tenant ten1 --port 10.20.246.15[0/2],10.20.246.16[0/2] --speed 10Gbps --negotiation active

efa tenant po update --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --operation description --description tenat1po1changed

efa tenant po show --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --detail

efa tenant po show --name ten1po2 --tenant ten1 --detail

 
Name            : ten1po1
Tenant          : ten1
ID              : 1
Description     : tenat1po1changed
Speed           : 10Gbps
Negotiation     : active
Min Link Count  : 1
Lacp Timeout    : long
Ports           : 10.20.246.15[0/1]
                : 10.20.246.16[0/1]
State           : po-created
Dev State       : provisioned
App State       : cfg-in-sync

Name            : ten1po2
Tenant          : ten1
ID              : 2
Description     : EFA Port-channel ten1po2
Speed           : 10Gbps
Negotiation     : active
Min Link Count  : 1
Lacp Timeout    : long
Ports           : 10.20.246.15[0/2]
                : 10.20.246.16[0/2]
State           : po-created
Dev State       : provisioned
App State       : cfg-in-sync

Switch Config

Rack1-Device1# show running-
config interface Port-channel
interface Port-channel 1
 description tenat1po1changed
 no shutdown
!
interface Port-channel 2
 description EFA Port-channel ten1po2
 no shutdown
!
Rack1-Device1#
 
Rack1-Device2# show running-
config interface Port-channel
interface Port-channel 1
 description tenat1po1changed
 no shutdown
!
interface Port-channel 2
 description EFA Port-channel ten1po2
 no shutdown
!
Rack1-Device2#
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