Practicing Clustering - your opinion requested

Hey Team,

Not much IMO on the clustering commands and configs via the docs. This
seems pretty easy though, but I would love to learn from you all.

What I have done: Enable the cluster master via the following commands:

cluster enable CCBOOTCAMP 0
cluster member 1 mac-address 0023.0512.e380
cluster member 2 mac-address 001b.d4c9.1380
cluster member 3 mac-address 0022.be94.f100

Can you tell whose workbooks I am currently using ... ;-)

The mac address used for the members is the one from the show version
command on each member switch. Everything seems to work, CDP is working
it's auto-magic. I used the rcommand to access each member and the output
of the command 'show cluster" looks good.

The lab I was working tonight had earlier asked me to only forward VLANs
through the trunk links that are needed for the remote switches. I used the
command: switchport trunk allowed vlan to allow only the VLANs configured /
used on the remote switches. I had to use this command since each switch
was configured in vtp transparent mode and I could not simply enable vtp
pruning..

Hummm ... Cluster seems to only work when there is a common VLAN throughout,
and it appears to require VLAN 1 (at least in my tests). Since my lab does
not use VLAN 1 for any device access, I find myself adding this to the
allowed vlan list just so that clustering works. All is well with this is
in the allowed vlan list

Any comments?

Any other gotchas I should practice or be familiar with? As always I
appreciate you all. Have a good night,

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