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Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch Configuration Guide for Dell PS Series SANs Dell Storage Engineering October 2015 A Dell Deployment and Configuration Guide
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Revisions Date Description February 2013 Initial release October 2013 Updated for firmware 6.0(2)N1(2) March 2014 Updated for firmware 7.0(0)N1(1) and added DCB with i SCSI TLV configuration. May 2014...
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Table of contents Revisions ...............................................................................................................................................................................
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3.3 Configure the v PC domain .......................................................................................................................................... 13 3.4 Configure Port Channel ....
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1 Introduction This document illustrates how to configure Cisco® Nexus 5548UP switches for use with Dell™ PS Series storage using Dell best practices. The recommended configuration uses link aggregati...
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1.4 Cabling diagram The cabling diagram shown below represents the Dell recommend method for deploying your servers and PS Series arrays. Figure 1 Cabling diagram 6 SCG1006 | Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch...
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2 Dell recommended switch configuration Follow the steps in this section to configure two Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches with a v PC interconnect. The switches are interconnected using four of the 10Gb p...
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---- Basic System Configuration Dialog ---- This setup utility will guide you through the basic configuration of the system. Setup configures only enough connectivity for management of the system. Ple...
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2.4 Disabling Data Center Bridging (DCB) Note: All steps in this section are required in order to properly disable DCB. These steps are also required when upgrading from previous versions to this new ...
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switch(config)# interface port-channel 1 switch(config-if)#priority-flow-control mode off switch(config-if)# flowcontrol send on switch(config-if)# flowcontrol receive on switch(config-if)# exit 2.7 E...
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2.10 Enable switch ports The following example enables a range of ports. If preferred, you may enable individual ports as needed. switch(config)# interface ethernet 1/1-32 switch(config-if-range)# shu...
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switch(config-pmap-nq-c)# exit Note: The following steps are optional and will enable jumbo MTU for the default class (non-i SCSI traffic). switch(config-pmap-nq)#class type network-qos class-default ...
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3 Configure Data Center Bridging (DCB) (optional) To enable DCB mode on the switch, use the procedures in this section. Note: This section assumes a new switch that has a default startup configuration...
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switch(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan 100,200 switch(config-if)# spanning-tree port type network switch(config-if)# vpc peer-link Please note that spanning tree port type is changed to “net...
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3.6.1 Define a Qo S map for i SCSI switch(config)# class-map type qos match-all class-iscsi switch(config-cmap-qos)# match protocol iscsi switch(config-cmap-qos)# match cos 4 switch(config-cmap-qos)# ...
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Note: The following steps are optional and will enable jumbo MTU for the default class (non-i SCSI traffic). switch(config-pmap-nq)#class type network-qos class-default switch(config-pmap-nq-c)#mtu 92...
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