Dell PowerEdge M IO Aggregator Owner's manual

Dell PowerEdge Conguration Guide for the M

I/O Aggregator

9.13.0.0

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Contents

1 About this Guide........................................................................................................................................... 15

Audience............................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Information Symbols.........................................................................................................................................................15

Related Documents.......................................................................................................................................................... 16

2 Before You Start........................................................................................................................................... 17

Operational Modes............................................................................................................................................................17

Standalone mode........................................................................................................................................................ 17

VLT mode.....................................................................................................................................................................17

Programmable MUX mode........................................................................................................................................ 17

Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................ 18

Default Settings................................................................................................................................................................ 18

Other Auto-Congured Settings.................................................................................................................................... 18

Data Center Bridging Support.........................................................................................................................................19

FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................19

iSCSI Operation.................................................................................................................................................................19

Link Aggregation............................................................................................................................................................... 19

Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................20

Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 20

Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 20

Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 20

Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................20

Deploying FN I/O Module................................................................................................................................................21

Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................ 22

Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................23

Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................24

Verifying the Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 24

3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 26

Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................26

CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................27

Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 27

The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 28

Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 29

Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................29

Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................29

Command History............................................................................................................................................................30

Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................30

Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................32

Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................32

Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 32

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Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot...............................................................................................................32

4 Conguration Cloning.................................................................................................................................. 34

Cloning Conguration Output Status............................................................................................................................34

5 Data Center Bridging (DCB)........................................................................................................................ 37

Supported Modes.............................................................................................................................................................37

Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging........................................................................................................37

Priority-Based Flow Control..................................................................................................................................... 38

Enhanced Transmission Selection............................................................................................................................39

Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)..................................................................................................41

Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow......................................................................................................................41

Enabling Data Center Bridging........................................................................................................................................ 41

Conguring DCB Maps and its Attributes...............................................................................................................42

Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration................................................................................................................45

Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode...........................................................................................................46

Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control...................................................................................................................... 47

How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented.................................................................................................49

Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection............................................................................................................ 50

How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented....................................................................................... 50

ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................... 51

Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies............................................................................................................ 51

DCBx Operation............................................................................................................................................................... 52

DCBx Operation......................................................................................................................................................... 52

DCBx Port Roles........................................................................................................................................................ 52

DCB Conguration Exchange...................................................................................................................................53

Conguration Source Election..................................................................................................................................54

Propagation of DCB Information..............................................................................................................................54

Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version...................................................................................................................... 54

DCBx Example............................................................................................................................................................55

DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................56

DCBx Error Messages............................................................................................................................................... 57

Debugging DCBx on an Interface.............................................................................................................................57

Verifying the DCB Conguration....................................................................................................................................57

QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment............................................................................................ 67

Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation........................................................................................................ 67

Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method......................................................................................................................69

6 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP).............................................................................................71

Supported Modes.............................................................................................................................................................71

Assigning an IP Address using DHCP.............................................................................................................................71

Debugging DHCP Client Operation................................................................................................................................73

DHCP Client......................................................................................................................................................................74

How DHCP Client is Implemented................................................................................................................................. 75

DHCP Client on a Management Interface.................................................................................................................... 75

DHCP Client on a VLAN..................................................................................................................................................76

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DHCP Packet Format and Options................................................................................................................................76

Option 82...........................................................................................................................................................................77

Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses.................................................................................................. 78

Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information......................................................................................................... 78

7 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................... 80

Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................80

Fibre Channel over Ethernet.......................................................................................................................................... 80

Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network........................................................................................... 80

FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges................................................................................................................................ 82

How FIP Snooping is Implemented................................................................................................................................84

FIP Snooping on VLANs............................................................................................................................................84

FC-MAP Value............................................................................................................................................................84

Bridge-to-FCF Links.................................................................................................................................................. 84

Impact on other Software Features........................................................................................................................ 84

FIP Snooping Prerequisites.......................................................................................................................................84

FIP Snooping Restrictions........................................................................................................................................ 85

Conguring FIP Snooping...............................................................................................................................................85

Displaying FIP Snooping Information.............................................................................................................................86

FIP Snooping Example..................................................................................................................................................... 91

Debugging FIP Snooping.................................................................................................................................................92

8 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).............................................................................................93

IGMP Overview................................................................................................................................................................93

IGMP Version 2................................................................................................................................................................ 93

Joining a Multicast Group......................................................................................................................................... 94

Leaving a Multicast Group........................................................................................................................................ 94

IGMP Version 3................................................................................................................................................................ 94

Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources.....................................................................................................................95

Leaving and Staying in Groups.......................................................................................................................................96

IGMP Snooping................................................................................................................................................................ 97

How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator.............................................................................................97

Disabling Multicast Flooding........................................................................................................................................... 97

Displaying IGMP Information.......................................................................................................................................... 97

9 Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................100

Basic Interface Conguration....................................................................................................................................... 100

Advanced Interface Conguration............................................................................................................................... 100

Interface Auto-Conguration.........................................................................................................................................101

Interface Types................................................................................................................................................................ 101

Viewing Interface Information.......................................................................................................................................102

Disabling and Re-enabling a Physical Interface...........................................................................................................103

Layer 2 Mode.................................................................................................................................................................. 103

Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 104

Accessing an Aggregator.........................................................................................................................................104

Conguring a Management Interface....................................................................................................................104

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Conguring a Static Route for a Management Interface....................................................................................105

VLAN Membership.........................................................................................................................................................105

Default VLAN ...........................................................................................................................................................106

Port-Based VLANs...................................................................................................................................................106

VLANs and Port Tagging.........................................................................................................................................106

Conguring VLAN Membership..............................................................................................................................107

Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................ 108

Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN................................................................................................................. 108

Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN.......................................................................................................... 109

VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................ 109

Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 110

Port Channel Denitions and Standards................................................................................................................. 111

Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................... 111

Port Channel Implementation...................................................................................................................................111

1GbE and 10GbE Interfaces in Port Channels........................................................................................................112

Uplink Port Channel: VLAN Membership...............................................................................................................112

Server-Facing Port Channel: VLAN Membership................................................................................................. 112

Displaying Port Channel Information.......................................................................................................................112

Interface Range............................................................................................................................................................... 114

Bulk Conguration Examples................................................................................................................................... 114

Monitor and Maintain Interfaces................................................................................................................................... 115

Maintenance Using TDR...........................................................................................................................................116

Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................. 117

Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames................................................................................................................117

Enabling Pause Frames...................................................................................................................................................117

MTU Size..........................................................................................................................................................................118

Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................... 119

Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................120

Setting Auto-Negotiation Options..........................................................................................................................122

Viewing Interface Information.......................................................................................................................................123

Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 124

Enabling the Management Address TLV on All Interfaces of an Aggregator..........................................................124

Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges....................................................................................................................124

Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing........................................................................................125

10 iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................126

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................126

iSCSI Optimization Overview........................................................................................................................................126

Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows......................................................................................................................................127

Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows..............................................................................................................128

Detection and Auto conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays................................................................................... 128

iSCSI Optimization: Operation...................................................................................................................................... 128

Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information.................................................................................................................. 129

11 Isolated Networks for Aggregators............................................................................................................. 131

Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings.................................................................................................131

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12 Link Aggregation....................................................................................................................................... 132

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................132

How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator......................................................................................................132

Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................133

Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................. 133

LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................133

Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................ 134

LACP Example................................................................................................................................................................ 134

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).................................................................................................................135

Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 135

Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 135

Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 135

Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................137

Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 138

Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces................................................................................................... 138

Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................139

Conguring Auto LAG....................................................................................................................................................139

Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active.............................................. 141

Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode.............................................. 142

Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage.........................................................................142

Enabling LACP link-fallback...........................................................................................................................................142

Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle...................................................................143

Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle......................................................................................................... 143

Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration.....................................................................................................144

Multiple Uplink LAGs...................................................................................................................................................... 147

Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports........................................................................................................... 147

Multiple Uplink LAGs with 40G Member Ports...........................................................................................................148

13 Layer 2.......................................................................................................................................................151

Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................151

Managing the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................151

Clearing the MAC Address Entries..........................................................................................................................151

Displaying the MAC Address Table.........................................................................................................................152

Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming..............................................................................................................152

MAC Address Station Move....................................................................................................................................153

MAC Move Optimization.........................................................................................................................................154

14 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)...................................................................................................... 155

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................155

Protocol Data Units........................................................................................................................................................155

Congure LLDP...............................................................................................................................................................157

Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................157

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 157

CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................. 157

Enabling LLDP.................................................................................................................................................................158

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Disabling and Undoing LLDP...................................................................................................................................158

Advertising TLVs.............................................................................................................................................................158

Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................159

Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 159

IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs.......................................................................................................................160

LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV.................................................................................................................................... 161

LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV..........................................................................................................................162

Extended Power via MDI TLV.................................................................................................................................163

LLDP Operation.............................................................................................................................................................. 163

Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..........................................................................................................164

Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs...................................................................................................................... 164

Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs...............................................................................................164

Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................................165

Viewing the LLDP Conguration.................................................................................................................................. 165

Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents...................................................................................... 165

Conguring LLDPDU Intervals......................................................................................................................................166

Conguring a Time to Live.............................................................................................................................................167

Clearing LLDP Counters................................................................................................................................................ 168

Debugging LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................168

Relevant Management Objects....................................................................................................................................169

15 Object Tracking......................................................................................................................................... 174

Object Tracking Overview..............................................................................................................................................174

Track Layer 2 Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................175

Track Layer 3 Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................175

Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes.................................................................................................................................... 176

Set Tracking Delays.................................................................................................................................................. 176

VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................. 176

Object Tracking Conguration...................................................................................................................................... 176

Tracking a Layer 2 Interface.................................................................................................................................... 177

Tracking a Layer 3 Interface.................................................................................................................................... 178

Track an IPv4/IPv6 Route....................................................................................................................................... 179

Displaying Tracked Objects............................................................................................................................................180

16 Port Monitoring........................................................................................................................................ 182

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................182

Conguring Port Monitoring......................................................................................................................................... 182

Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 183

Port Monitoring...............................................................................................................................................................184

17 Security.................................................................................................................................................... 186

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................186

Understanding Banner Settings....................................................................................................................................186

Accessing the I/O Aggregator Using the CMC Console Only.................................................................................. 187

AAA Authentication........................................................................................................................................................187

Conguration Task List for AAA Authentication................................................................................................... 187

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AAA Authorization..........................................................................................................................................................190

Privilege Levels Overview........................................................................................................................................190

Conguration Task List for Privilege Levels........................................................................................................... 191

RADIUS............................................................................................................................................................................194

RADIUS Authentication........................................................................................................................................... 195

Conguration Task List for RADIUS....................................................................................................................... 196

TACACS+........................................................................................................................................................................ 199

Conguration Task List for TACACS+....................................................................................................................199

TACACS+ Remote Authentication........................................................................................................................ 200

Enabling SCP and SSH.................................................................................................................................................. 201

Using SCP with SSH to Copy a Software Image................................................................................................ 202

Secure Shell Authentication................................................................................................................................... 203

Troubleshooting SSH...............................................................................................................................................205

Telnet...............................................................................................................................................................................206

VTY Line and Access-Class Conguration................................................................................................................. 206

VTY Line Local Authentication and Authorization...............................................................................................206

VTY Line Remote Authentication and Authorization...........................................................................................207

VTY MAC-SA Filter Support...................................................................................................................................207

Dell EMC Networking OS Security Hardening...........................................................................................................208

Dell EMC Networking OS Image Verication.......................................................................................................208

Startup Conguration Verication.........................................................................................................................209

Conguring the root User Password......................................................................................................................210

Enabling User Lockout for Failed Login Attempts................................................................................................. 211

18 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).......................................................................................212

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................212

Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 213

Conguring the Simple Network Management Protocol.......................................................................................... 213

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 213

Setting up SNMP..................................................................................................................................................... 213

Creating a Community............................................................................................................................................. 213

Setting Up User-Based Security (SNMPv3).............................................................................................................. 214

Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using SNMP.................................................................................. 215

Enabling a Subset of SNMP Traps............................................................................................................................... 216

Reading Managed Object Values..................................................................................................................................217

Displaying the Ports in a VLAN using SNMP.............................................................................................................. 218

Fetching Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP.............................................................................................................219

Deriving Interface Indices.............................................................................................................................................. 221

MIB Support to Display Reason for Last System Reboot..........................................................................................221

Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot Using SNMP...............................................................................222

MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics.......................................................................................................222

Monitoring BGP sessions via SNMP...........................................................................................................................222

Monitor Port-Channels..................................................................................................................................................224

Entity MIBS.................................................................................................................................................................... 225

Example of Sample Entity MIBS outputs..............................................................................................................225

SNMP Traps for Link Status.........................................................................................................................................227

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Standard VLAN MIB...................................................................................................................................................... 227

Enhancements..........................................................................................................................................................227

Fetching the Switchport Conguration and the Logical Interface Conguration ...........................................227

MIB Support to Display the Available Memory Size on Flash...................................................................................228

Viewing the Available Flash Memory Size.............................................................................................................228

MIB Support to Display the Software Core Files Generated by the System......................................................... 229

Viewing the Software Core Files Generated by the System..............................................................................229

MIB Support to Display the Available Partitions on Flash.........................................................................................230

Viewing the Available Partitions on Flash............................................................................................................. 230

MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics........................................................................................................231

Viewing the ECMP Group Count Information......................................................................................................232

MIB Support for entAliasMappingTable ..................................................................................................................... 234

Viewing the entAliasMappingTable MIB................................................................................................................234

MIB Support for LAG.................................................................................................................................................... 235

Viewing the LAG MIB..............................................................................................................................................236

MIB Support to Display Unrecognized LLDP TLVs....................................................................................................237

MIB Support to Display Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs............................................................................ 237

MIB Support to Display Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.....................................................238

Transceiver Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................239

19 Stacking....................................................................................................................................................241

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................241

Stacking Aggregators.....................................................................................................................................................241

Stack Management Roles.......................................................................................................................................242

Stack Master Election............................................................................................................................................. 243

Failover Roles........................................................................................................................................................... 243

MAC Addressing...................................................................................................................................................... 244

Stacking LAG............................................................................................................................................................244

Stacking VLANs....................................................................................................................................................... 244

Stacking Port Numbers.................................................................................................................................................245

Stacking in PMUX Mode.............................................................................................................................................. 245

Conguring a Switch Stack..........................................................................................................................................246

Stacking Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................................246

Master Selection Criteria........................................................................................................................................ 247

Conguring Priority and stack-group.................................................................................................................... 247

Cabling Stacked Switches...................................................................................................................................... 248

Accessing the CLI....................................................................................................................................................248

Conguring and Bringing Up a Stack.................................................................................................................... 249

Adding a Stack Unit.................................................................................................................................................249

Resetting a Unit on a Stack....................................................................................................................................250

Removing an Aggregator from a Stack and Restoring Quad Mode..................................................................250

Conguring the Uplink Speed of Interfaces as 40 Gigabit Ethernet........................................................................251

Merging Two Operational Stacks.................................................................................................................................252

Verifying a Stack Conguration................................................................................................................................... 252

Using Show Commands..........................................................................................................................................252

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Troubleshooting a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................254

Failure Scenarios......................................................................................................................................................256

Upgrading a Switch Stack............................................................................................................................................ 258

Upgrading a Single Stack Unit..................................................................................................................................... 259

20 Storm Control..........................................................................................................................................260

Congure Storm Control...............................................................................................................................................260

Conguring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode................................................................................260

Conguring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode............................................................................................261

21 Broadcast Storm Control..........................................................................................................................262

Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................262

Disabling Broadcast Storm Control..............................................................................................................................262

Displaying Broadcast-Storm Control Status...............................................................................................................262

Conguring Storm Control........................................................................................................................................... 262

22 SupportAssist.......................................................................................................................................... 263

Conguring SupportAssist Using a Conguration Wizard........................................................................................ 264

Conguring SupportAssist Manually........................................................................................................................... 264

Conguring SupportAssist Activity............................................................................................................................. 266

Conguring SupportAssist Company.......................................................................................................................... 267

Conguring SupportAssist Person.............................................................................................................................. 268

Conguring SupportAssist Server...............................................................................................................................268

Viewing SupportAssist Conguration..........................................................................................................................269

23 System Time and Date..............................................................................................................................271

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................271

Setting the Time for the Software Clock.................................................................................................................... 271

Setting the Timezone.................................................................................................................................................... 272

Setting Daylight Savings Time......................................................................................................................................272

Setting Daylight Saving Time Once....................................................................................................................... 272

Setting Recurring Daylight Saving Time................................................................................................................273

Conguring the Oset-Threshold for NTP Audit Log................................................................................................274

24 Uplink Failure Detection (UFD).................................................................................................................275

Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 275

Feature Description....................................................................................................................................................... 275

How Uplink Failure Detection Works........................................................................................................................... 276

UFD and NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................... 277

Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................278

Uplink Failure Detection (SMUX mode)...................................................................................................................... 278

Conguring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode).................................................................................................279

Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode)................................................................................................280

Displaying Uplink Failure Detection...............................................................................................................................281

Sample Conguration: Uplink Failure Detection.........................................................................................................283

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25 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator...........................................................................................................285

I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode.....................................................................................285

Conguring and Changing to PMUX Mode............................................................................................................... 285

Conguring the Commands without a Separate User Account.............................................................................. 286

Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)........................................................................................................................................... 286

Overview...................................................................................................................................................................286

Setting up VLT..........................................................................................................................................................287

Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) in PMUX Mode......................................................................................................... 288

VLT Terminology...................................................................................................................................................... 290

Congure Virtual Link Trunking...............................................................................................................................291

Verifying a VLT Conguration................................................................................................................................ 295

Additional VLT Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................. 297

Troubleshooting VLT................................................................................................................................................298

26 FC Flex IO Modules................................................................................................................................. 300

FC Flex IO Modules.......................................................................................................................................................300

Understanding and Working of the FC Flex IO Modules.......................................................................................... 300

FC Flex IO Modules Overview............................................................................................................................... 300

FC Flex IO Module Capabilities and Operations................................................................................................... 301

Guidelines for Working with FC Flex IO Modules................................................................................................ 302

Processing of Data Trac...................................................................................................................................... 304

Installing and Conguring the Switch....................................................................................................................304

Interconnectivity of FC Flex IO Modules with Cisco MDS Switches................................................................306

Fibre Channel over Ethernet for FC Flex IO Modules...............................................................................................308

27 FC FLEXIO FPORT.................................................................................................................................. 309

FC FLEXIO FPORT........................................................................................................................................................309

Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode.............................................................................................................310

Name Server....................................................................................................................................................................311

FCoE Maps...................................................................................................................................................................... 311

Creating an FCoE Map.................................................................................................................................................. 312

Zoning.............................................................................................................................................................................. 313

Creating Zone and Adding Members........................................................................................................................... 314

Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members.................................................................................................................. 314

Creating Zonesets.......................................................................................................................................................... 314

Activating a Zoneset...................................................................................................................................................... 315

Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................. 315

28 NPIV Proxy Gateway................................................................................................................................ 318

Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................318

NPIV Proxy Gateway Conguration............................................................................................................................. 318

NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities..................................................................................................... 318

NPIV Proxy Gateway Operation ............................................................................................................................ 319

NPIV Proxy Gateway: Protocol Services............................................................................................................... 319

NPIV Proxy Gateway Functionality........................................................................................................................ 319

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NPIV Proxy Gateway: Terms and Denitions....................................................................................................... 320

Conguring an NPIV Proxy Gateway........................................................................................................................... 321

Enabling Fibre Channel Capability on the Switch................................................................................................ 323

Creating a DCB Map .............................................................................................................................................. 323

Applying a DCB Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports ..................................................................................... 324

Creating an FCoE VLAN......................................................................................................................................... 324

Creating an FCoE Map ...........................................................................................................................................324

Applying an FCoE Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports...................................................................................326

Applying an FCoE Map on Fabric-facing FC Ports..............................................................................................326

Sample Conguration.............................................................................................................................................. 327

Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information..............................................................................................................328

show interfaces status Command Example......................................................................................................... 328

show fcoe-map Command Examples .................................................................................................................. 329

show qos dcb-map Command Examples ............................................................................................................ 330

show npiv devices brief Command Example.........................................................................................................331

show npiv devices Command Example ................................................................................................................ 331

show fc switch Command Example ..................................................................................................................... 332

29 Upgrade Procedures................................................................................................................................ 334

Get Help with Upgrades............................................................................................................................................... 334

30 Debugging and Diagnostics......................................................................................................................335

Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................335

Debugging Aggregator Operation................................................................................................................................335

All interfaces on the Aggregator are operationally down.................................................................................... 335

Broadcast, unknown multicast, and DLF packets switched at a very low rate............................................... 336

Flooded packets on all VLANs are received on a server.....................................................................................337

Software show Commands.......................................................................................................................................... 337

Oine Diagnostics.........................................................................................................................................................339

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 339

Running Oine Diagnostics....................................................................................................................................339

Trace Logs...................................................................................................................................................................... 340

Auto Save on Crash or Rollover.............................................................................................................................340

Using the Show Hardware Commands.......................................................................................................................340

Environmental Monitoring.............................................................................................................................................342

Recognize an Over-Temperature Condition..........................................................................................................343

Troubleshoot an Over-Temperature Condition..................................................................................................... 343

Recognize an Under-Voltage Condition................................................................................................................ 344

Troubleshoot an Under-Voltage Condition............................................................................................................344

Buer Tuning..................................................................................................................................................................345

Deciding to Tune Buers........................................................................................................................................ 346

Sample Buer Prole Conguration......................................................................................................................349

Troubleshooting Packet Loss........................................................................................................................................349

Displaying Drop Counters....................................................................................................................................... 350

Dataplane Statistics..................................................................................................................................................351

Displaying Stack Port Statistics............................................................................................................................. 352

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Enabling Buer Statistics Tracking .............................................................................................................................353

Restoring the Factory Default Settings...................................................................................................................... 355

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 355

31 Standards Compliance..............................................................................................................................356

IEEE Compliance............................................................................................................................................................356

RFC and I-D Compliance.............................................................................................................................................. 356

General Internet Protocols......................................................................................................................................357

General IPv4 Protocols............................................................................................................................................357

Network Management............................................................................................................................................358

MIB Location.................................................................................................................................................................. 360

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About this Guide

This guide describes the supported protocols and software features, and provides conguration instructions and examples, for the Dell

Networking M I/O Aggregator running Dell Networking OS version 9.7(0.0).

The MI/O Aggregator is installed in a Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator. For information about how to install and perform the initial switch

conguration, refer to the Getting Started Guides on the Dell Support website at http://www.dell.com/support/manuals

Though this guide contains information about protocols, it is not intended to be a complete reference. This guide is a reference for

conguring protocols on Dell Networking systems. For complete information about protocols, refer to other documentation, including IETF

requests for comment (RFCs). The instructions in this guide cite relevant RFCs, and Standards Compliance contains a complete list of the

supported RFCs and management information base les (MIBs).

NOTE: You can perform some of the conguration tasks described in this document by using either the Dell command line or the

chassis management controller (CMC) graphical interface. Tasks supported by the CMC interface are shown with the CMC icon:

CMC

Topics:

• Audience

• Conventions

• Information Symbols

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Audience

This document is intended for system administrators who are responsible for conguring and maintaining networks and assumes knowledge

in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies.

Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions to describe command syntax.

Keyword

Keywords are in Courier (a monospaced font) and must be entered in the CLI as listed.

parameter Parameters are in italics and require a number or word to be entered in the CLI.

{X} Keywords and parameters within braces must be entered in the CLI.

[X] Keywords and parameters within brackets are optional.

x|y Keywords and parameters separated by a bar require you to choose one option.

x||y Keywords and parameters separated by a double bar allows you to choose any or all of the options.

Information Symbols

This book uses the following information symbols.

NOTE

: The Note icon signals important operational information.

CAUTION: The Caution icon signals information about situations that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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WARNING: The Warning icon signals information about hardware handling that could result in injury.

* (Exception). This symbol is a note associated with additional text on the page that is marked with an asterisk.

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