STP and VLAN Limitation-Cisco

  • 2950 SI: Maximum 64 STP instances, Maximum 128 VLANs.
  • 2950 EI: Maximum 64 STP instances, Maximum 250 VLANS.
  • 3550, 3560, 3750: Maximum 128 STP instances, Maximum 1005 VLANs.



If the number of STP instances exceeds, then you'll get an error like this:

SPANTREE_VLAN_SW-2-MAX_INSTANCE: Platform limit of 64 STP instances exceeded. No instance created for VLANxxx

Workarounds:

  • Delete some VLANs.
  • Set the switch to VTP mode transparent mode and manually prune VLANs off the trunk links so it doesn't know about the extra VLANs.


Solutions:

  • Use MST instead of PVST.
  • Upgrade the switch J


Commands:

show vlan sum
show spanning-tree summary

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