Users Guide

Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................446
Conguring a Dedicated Management Interface ................................................................................................446
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................447
Port Extender Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................. 448
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................448
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 449
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 450
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................450
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................450
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................450
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................ 450
10/40 Gbps Interfaces in Port Channels................................................................................................................451
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................451
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 451
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................452
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................454
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 454
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 455
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 455
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................456
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 456
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................456
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 457
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................457
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................457
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 459
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 459
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 459
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 460
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................461
Displaying Trac Statistics on HiGig Ports................................................................................................................. 461
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 462
Monitoring HiGig Link Bundles.....................................................................................................................................462
Guidelines for Monitoring HiGig Link-Bundles .....................................................................................................463
Enabling HiGig Link-Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................464
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 464
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 465
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port............................................................................465
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................467
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................467
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................467
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................ 467
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 469
Threshold Settings...................................................................................................................................................470
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 470
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