Dell Force10 MXL 10 GbE manuals
Force10 MXL 10 GbE
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Content Overview
- Document Conventions
- Device Introduction
- Figure 4. FlexIO 40GbE QSFP+ Module
- Dell Force10 MXL Deployment
- Access Port Downlink Configuration
- Trunk Port Downlink Configuration
- Link Aggregation Group Configuration
- Trunk Port Uplink Configuration with MLAG at Top of Rack
- Trunk Port Uplink Configuration with Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
- Spanning Tree Protocol Failover and Failback Observations
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP Observations
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP – Remainder of Test Observations
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP – Greater than 64 Instances
- Nexus Rapid PVST+ and MXL PVST – Remainder of Test Observations
- Appendices
- Appendix B: Basic Terminology
Force10 MXL 10 GbE
Table of contents
- getting started guide
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Hardware Overview
- Base Module
- FlexIO TM Plug-in Modules
- USB Ports
- System and Port LEDs
- Installation
- Unpacking the Switch
- installing and configuring the switch
- Installing the Switch Blade in a PowerEdge M1000e
- Connecting a Console Terminal
- Performing the Initial Configuration
- Assembling a Switch Stack
- Configuring and Bringing Up a Stack
- Managing a Stack
- Ports
- Switch Configuration
- DCB Support
- Next Steps
- Technical Specifications
- Power Requirements
Force10 MXL 10 GbE
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Redundancy
- Restoring factory defaults
- Bare Metal Provisioning
- Port numbering
- Combining split 10GbE SFP+ ports into a single 40GbE QSFP+ port
- Master selection criteria
- Stacking scenarios
- Figure 6. Stacking MXL switches across multiple M1000e chassis using two ports between members
- Creating the MXL stack
- Adding new members to an existing stack
- Un-stacking (removing member units)
- Renumbering stack units
- Appendix A – Stacking scenarios
- Appendix B – Port mapping
- Appendix C - Network switch versions
Force10 MXL 10 GbE
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Figure 3. Port mapping for Dell Force10 MXL expansion modules
- Configuration scenarios
- Prior to deployment
- Scenario 1: Deploying the Dell Force10 MXL FSB in a Cisco 5000 series switch (NPIV) environment
- Figure 7. Deployment planning and configuration continued from previous flowchart
- Configuring the Dell Force10 MXL for FIP-Snooping
- Figure 9. Example commands for Dell Force10 MXL (can be copied and pasted)
- Dell Force10 MXL
- Special instructions concerning deployment with Intel x520 CNA
- Figure 15. "show interface brief" command
- Figure 17. "show flogi database" command
- Basic validation for the Force10 MXL configuration
- Figure 20. "show fip-snooping config
- Figure 23. "show fip-snooping sessions
- Figure 26. "show interfaces dcbx detail
- Figure 28. "show interfaces pfc detail
- Figure 29. "show interfaces ets detail
- Basic Troubleshooting Areas
- environment
- aggregation) connection at the Top-of-Rack
- Figure 35. Multiple port link (port-channel/LAG) Cisco Nexus 5548 configuration
- Figure 37. Multiple port uplink (LAG) MXL configuration (can be copied and pasted)
- Figure 38. Multiple port uplink (LAG) MXL configuration (can be copied and pasted) - continued
- mode) environment
- Figure 40. Multiple port link Cisco 5548 configuration (can be copied and pasted)
- mode
- Scenario 4: Configuring multiple uplinks into vPC on Cisco Nexus 5000 series switch
- Configuring the Cisco 5000 series switch for vPC and connections from the Dell Force10 MXL
- Figure 44. Flow of vPC configuration on Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches
- without FCoE configuration (can be copied and pasted)
- switch with vPC configured
- vPC(can be copied and pasted)
- Figure 49. "show vpc brief
- FCoE
- Figure 51. Flow of additional configuration for FCoE on Cisco Nexus 5000 series switch with vPC
- FCoE configuration (can be copied and pasted)
- configuration
- Appendix A – Basic terminology
- NPIV
- Appendix B – Full CLI examples
- Cisco Nexus 5548UP CLI example
- Appendix B - Network switch versions
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