Setup Guide

64 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
9.1 Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9100-ON switch configuration
The following section outlines the configuration commands issued to the Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9100-ON
switches. The switches start at their factory default settings per Appendix D.4
.
NOTE: The MX IOMs run Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (RPVST+) by default. RPVST+ runs RSTP on
each VLAN while RSTP runs a single instance of spanning tree across the default VLAN. The Dell EMC
PowerSwitch Z9100-ON used in this example runs OS10EE and has RPVST+ enabled by default. See
Spanning
Tree Protocol recommendations for more information.
There are 4 steps to configure the Z9100-ON upstream switches:
1. Set the switch hostname and management IP address.
2. Configure the VLT between the switches.
3. Configure the VLANs.
4. Configure the port channels to connect to the MX switches.
Use the following commands to set the hostname, and to configure the OOB management interface and
default gateway.
Z9100-ON Leaf 1
Z9100-ON Leaf 2
configure terminal
hostname Z9100-Leaf1
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address dhcp
no shutdown
ip address 100.67.162.35/24
management route 0.0.0.0/0 100.67.162.254
configure terminal
hostname Z9100-Leaf2
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address dhcp
no shutdown
ip address 100.67.162.34/24
management route 0.0.0.0/0 100.67.162.254
NOTE: Use spanning-tree {vlan vlan-id priority priority-value} command to set the
bridge priority for the upstream switches. The bridge priority ranges from 0 to 61440 in increments of 4096. For
example, to make Z9100-ON Leaf 1 as the root bridge for VLAN 10, enter the command
spanning-tree
vlan 10 priority 4096.
Configure the VLT between switches using the following commands. VLT configuration involves setting a
discovery interface range and discovering the VLT peer in the VLTi.
Z9100-ON Leaf 1
Z9100-ON Leaf 2
interface range ethernet1/1/29-1/1/31
description VLTi
no shutdown
no switchport
vlt-domain 1
backup destination 100.67.162.34
discovery-interface ethernet1/1/29-1/1/31
interface range ethernet1/1/29-1/1/31
description VLTi
no shutdown
no switchport
vlt-domain 1
backup destination 100.67.169.35
discovery-interface ethernet1/1/29-1/1/31