Instance – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Dell Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference

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instance

Maps a VLAN to a Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) instance.

Synopsis

instance instance_id [vlan vlan_id | priority priority_id]

no instance

Operands

instance_id

Specifies the MSTP instance. The range of valid values is 1-15.

vlan vlan_id

Specifies the VLAN to map an MSTP instance. The range of valid values is
1-3583.

priority priority_id

Specifies the priority for the specified instance. The range of valid values is
0-61440. The priority values can be set only in increments of 4096.

Defaults

The default priority value is 32768.

Command

Modes

Protocol Spanning Tree MSTP mode

Description

Use this command to map a VLAN to an MTSP instance. You can group a set of VLANs to an
instance.This command can be used only after the VLAN is defined. Use the no instance command
to unmap the VLAN from the MSTP instance.

Usage

Guidelines

The following rules apply:

VLANs must be created before mapping to instances.

VLAN instance mapping is removed from the configuration if the underlying VLANs are deleted.

Examples

To map a VLAN to an MTSP instance:

switch(conf-mstp)#instance 1 vlan 2, 3

switch(conf-mstp)#instance 2 vlan 4-6

switch(conf-mstp)#instance 1 priority 4096

See Also

show spanning-tree

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