Create a Port Channel

You can create a port channel for a tenant. A port channel, also known as a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) is a communication link between devices. You can specify speed, LACP negotiation, port, port channel number, LACP timeout, and the number of links that are required to be up.

About this task

Follow this procedure to create a port channel.

For syntax and command examples, see the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Command Reference, 3.3.1 .

Procedure

Run the efa tenant po create command to create a port channel.

efa tenant po create --name <po-name> --tenant <tenant-name> --description <po-description> --mtu <1500-9216> --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>

Example

The following example creates a dual-homed PO:

efa tenant po create --tenant ten1 --name ten1po1 --port 10.20.246.5[0/1-2],10.20.246.6[0/1-2] --speed 100Gbps --negotiation active --lacp-timeout short --min-link-count 2 --mtu 9000 --description "ten1po1 of ten1"

PortChannel created successfully.

--- Time Elapsed: 3.291185439s ---


(efa:root)root@node-2:~# efa tenant po show --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --detaill
================================================
Name            : ten1po1
Tenant          : ten1
ID              : 7
Description     : ten1po1 of ten1
Speed           : 100Gbps
MTU             : 9000
Negotiation     : active
Min Link Count  : 2
Lacp Timeout    : short
Ports           : 10.20.246.6[0/1-2]
                : 10.20.246.5[0/1-2]
State           : po-created
Dev State       : provisioned
App State       : cfg-in-sync

===============================================

--- Time Elapsed: 99.584783ms ---

The following example shows the SLX configuration on device 1:

SSH session to admin@10.20.246.5

SLX# sh run int po
interface Port-channel 1
 speed 100000
 minimum-links 2
 mtu 9000
 description ten1po1 of ten1
 no shutdown
!

SLX# show running-config interface Ethernet 0/1-2
interface Ethernet 0/1
 description Port-channel ten1po1 Member interface
 channel-group 1 mode active type standard
 lacp timeout short
 no shutdown
!
interface Ethernet 0/2
 description Port-channel ten1po1 Member interface
 channel-group 1 mode active type standard
 lacp timeout short
 no shutdown
!

The following example creates a single-homed PO:

efa tenant po create --tenant "ten1" --name "ten1po2" --port 10.20.246.5[0/9] --speed 10Gbps --negotiation static --min-link-count 1 --description po2

PortChannel created successfully.

--- Time Elapsed: 3.065422112s ---

======================================================
Name            : ten1po2
Tenant          : ten1
ID              : 6
Description     : po2
Speed           : 10Gbps
MTU             :
Negotiation     : static
Min Link Count  : 1
Lacp Timeout    :
Ports           : 10.20.246.5[0/9]
State           : po-created
Dev State       : provisioned
App State       : cfg-in-sync

=======================================================

--- Time Elapsed: 171.910633ms ---

The following example shows an SLX configuration on devices:
```
SLX# sh run int po
interface Port-channel 1
 description po2
 no shutdown
!
```