I have a question for you clever people but I'll give you a little background first.
I work for the NHS in a 2 man team covering a massive area which keeps us very busy. We work very closely with other NHS organisations and sometimes our networks run through each others to keep costs down. One site in particular has 3 organisations utilising the same link. We are planning a re-design of the infrastructure as we have the majority of staff on site so we are taking over the core and running the majority of the network.
My question relates to redundancy and re-convergence times in case of failure. BT supply the connection and will install two routers running HSRP. Currently most of our sites have a stack of 2 or more switches in a VRF stack with a link from each router going to a different switch. It will also be the same to the other two NHS organisations on site but via LACP instead.. If a switch fails, the downtime for re-calculations is relatively short and we have never had a major issue with it.
Would there be any benefit using VRRP to and from all devices? From the brief time I have had to test, it seems like a lot more work and configuration for little to no gain.
In case you need to know, we are running HPE 5510's for our core on the latest firmware R1309P06.
Thanks all!
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