Need guidance on Cisco 6513 install

I'm hopeful that someone can help me with this situation. I am tasked with configuring a new 6513 switch and it must be in production by Tuesday noon (June 3rd). We rack mounted it today and will be able to power it up Monday morning.

Here is the problem: I have some networking and Cisco knowledge, but don't have much experience configuring VLANs or 6500 series switches. I've done some ongoing administration on a production 6500, but never set one up from scratch. There is an Avaya rollout that depends on me having this switch set up on Tuesday by noon, with the proper subnets. We've already determined what the subnets will be. Here is the existing environment:

Cisco 2811 router, which connects this building to our main building via a 1 mile fiber link. This router has an available 100MB port that I'm considering connecting to the 6513.

There is a new 3750 switch arriving Monday that will connect to the

6513 from a server room via fiber (we have all the 10GB fiber modules for this connectivity). This 3750 must have some ports configured on the 10.2.200.0 subnet for VoIP.

The switch itself (and other future network hardware) will be on the

10.2.1.0 subnet, and we will have future servers on 10.2.10.0 and workstations on 10.2.100.0.

So it will be: 3750 -> 10GB fiber -> 6513 -> 100MB -> 2811 router.

The 6513 will have 3 48 port line cards installed, but the workstations in this building (currently on 3Com switches) won't be moved over to the 6513 for a couple more weeks. So I'm only going to connect one of the 10/100/1000 ports to the 2811 router initially.

I would just like some overall guidance on how to go about configuring the 3750 and 6513. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've already read through most of the installation guide, but it's more for reference.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted 5 years ago by clarv02 in Cisco Systems

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