Install Guide

Specification Pre-requisite

• Follow Dell Compellent best-practices for storage configuration.

• Storage Centers needs to be added to the Enterprise Manager before initiating the Element

Manager discovery in ASM.

• Fault Domain and IP Address configuration of iSCSI controllers needs to be done before

discovery Element Manager in ASM.

• Discovery of EM needs to be done with same credentials which are used for add storage

center in Element Manager.

• Enable SNMP on Dell Compellent to enable ASM to monitor the device.

For more information on creating alias, see Brocade for Dell Compellent section in this

topic.

Dell Compellent iSCSI on MXL

with Hyper V

• Enable LLDP and its corresponding attributes.

• DCB (with no PFC option) on the participating interfaces (Server Facing and Port-Channel

Members). Since DCB is globally enabled, the PFC should be turned off individually in those

interfaces.

• Link Level Flow control (LLFC) must be Rx ON and Tx OFF on the respective interfaces.

• MTU must be set to 9216 on respective interfaces.

Sample server facing interface configuration

FTOSA1#show running-config interface tengigabitethernet 0/15

interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/15

no ip address

mtu 9216

portmode hybrid

switchport

flowcontrol rx on tx off

spanning-tree 0 portfast

spanning-tree pvst edge-port

dcb-map DCB_MAP_PFC_OFF

protocol lldp

advertise management-tlv management-address system-name

dcbx port-role auto-downstream

no shutdown

Sample port-channel member interface configuration

FTOSA1#show running-config interface tengigabitethernet 0/41