Administrator Guide

Figure 138. VLT on Core Switches
The aggregation layer is mostly in the L2/L3 switching/routing layer. For better resiliency in the aggregation, Dell Networking recommends
running the internal gateway protocol (IGP) on the VLTi VLAN to synchronize the L3 routing table across the two nodes on a VLT system.
Enhanced VLT
Enhanced VLT (eVLT)) refers to the ability to connect two VLT domains. An eVLT conguration creates a port channel between two VLT
domains by allowing two dierent VLT domains, using dierent VLT domain ID numbers, connected by a standard link aggregation control
protocol (LACP) LAG to form a loop-free Layer 2 topology in the aggregation layer.
This conguration supports a maximum of four switches, increasing the number of available ports and allowing for dual redundancy of the
VLT. The following example shows how the core/aggregation port density in the Layer 2 topology is increased using eVLT. For inter-VLAN
routing, you do not need a separate router.
If you enable peer routing in an eVLT topology, a VLT node acts as a proxy gateway for its peer within the VLT domain. You can also
congure the two VLT domains to act as proxy gateways for each other. For more details, see the VLT Proxy Gateway chapter.
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