I have seen VTP implemented in a couple places a lot of places with no VTP implemented. I'm looking for people's pros, cons and experiences with it. We're looking at building out a couple floors of a building, and the network design is firing up and we have 2 staunchly opposed groups - those folks who say VTP will make life 1000x easier, and those who say that it is terrible.
Using VTP will make things easier due to centralized management. Don't have to login to a ton of switches and add vlans to the vlan database, no manual vlan configuration anywhere - all of it is done in one place.
The Anti-VTP folks warn about someone plugging in VTP-enabled device with a higher revision number taking down the entire network. I don't see why people would be allowed to plug in a random managed switch (port security, anyone?), but this is apparently a big deal.
I'm hit or miss. I've used both and admittedly, VTP seems to make things a lot easier management wise, but I'm OK without it as long as the documentation is OK. Thoughts?
Using VTP will make things easier due to centralized management. Don't have to login to a ton of switches and add vlans to the vlan database, no manual vlan configuration anywhere - all of it is done in one place.
The Anti-VTP folks warn about someone plugging in VTP-enabled device with a higher revision number taking down the entire network. I don't see why people would be allowed to plug in a random managed switch (port security, anyone?), but this is apparently a big deal.
I'm hit or miss. I've used both and admittedly, VTP seems to make things a lot easier management wise, but I'm OK without it as long as the documentation is OK. Thoughts?