You can actually route VLAN 1, just not the 'management VLAN' which is 1 by default.  I don't like to use VLAN 1 anyhow - everyone has their own opinion on this.... You'll create the 2 VLANs and assign an IP for each of the individual VLAN interfaces (eg. 10.0.1.1/24 and 10.0.2.1/24).  You can check the box to enable 'routing' in the GUI or from the CLI within the VLAN interface just type 'routing'.  Connected networks will automatically generate routes within the L3 switch's table.   For a route to your firewall, you will need to create a default route within the L3 switch.  I don't recommend relying on redirects by having your firewall just point traffic to another device on lets say the server network.  Some things don't necessarily play well (nor do some firewalls). You could create a 3rd VLAN to the outside world that the switch participates in along with the firewall.  If you eventually add any routing equipment to other sites, you can also place those in that 'routing' VLAN. Hope that helps.
Hello, I've been reading a few posts that are simmilar to my situation but i have some questions so bare with me.   currently i have 1 class c (10.0.1.x) network, we are running out of IP's so we will be purchasing a L3 switch with the intention of creating 2 VLANs with a different network on each. So our servers would stay on the 10.0.1.0 /24 and we would be creating a new subnet for the workstations 10.0.2.0 /24.   So i'll be creating 2 new VLANs. Lets say VLAN 2 and VLAN 3 (ignore the mgmt VLAN 1 since we can't route with it??),  VLAN 2 can be for the servers and VLAN 3 can be for the workstations. Then i provide an IP address for each VLAN, this becomes the default gateway for the nodes on that VLAN. Then i enable routing on each VLAN, and enable routing on the switch So far so good?   I would also need to configure a default route to my firewall? Do i need to create any routes between the VLANs or is that done automatically when i enable routing?   I have more questions but lets start with this   Thanks in advance
PC6248 - VLAN routing questions