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3 Dell EMC Networking S4248-ON Switch Configuration Guide for Dell EMC Unity, SC Series, and PS Series
iSCSI SANs | SCG4077
Table of contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Document conventions ....................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.3 Switch details ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.4 Cabling diagram.................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.4.1 SC Series cabling diagram ................................................................................................................................. 6
1.4.2 Dell EMC Unity cabling diagram ......................................................................................................................... 7
1.4.3 PS Series cabling diagram ................................................................................................................................. 8
2 Dell EMC recommended switch configuration ............................................................................................................. 9
2.1 Hardware configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Check switch operating system version ............................................................................................................. 9
2.3 Delete startup configuration .............................................................................................................................. 10
2.4 Configure out-of-band management port ......................................................................................................... 10
2.5 Configure login credentials ............................................................................................................................... 10
2.6 Configure QSFP or QSFP28 ports as breakout port (optional) ........................................................................ 10
2.7 Disable link auto-negotiation (SC Series SAN with T6225 or T62100 adapter) ............................................... 11
2.8 Enable switch ports .......................................................................................................................................... 11
2.9 Enable Jumbo frames and flow control ............................................................................................................ 12
2.10 Configure spanning tree on edge ports ............................................................................................................ 12
2.11 Configure port channel for link aggregation ..................................................................................................... 12
2.12 Configure port channel member ports .............................................................................................................. 12
2.13 Save configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 12
2.14 Configure additional switch ............................................................................................................................... 13
3 Configure Data Center Bridging (optional) ................................................................................................................. 14
3.1 Disable iSCSI .................................................................................................................................................... 14
3.2 Disable 802.3x flowcontrol on all ports ............................................................................................................. 14
3.3 Create tagged VLAN for all ports and port-channels........................................................................................ 14
3.4 Create QoS policy map with dot1p values as trusted....................................................................................... 14
3.5 Create Priority Flow Control dot1p traffic class ................................................................................................ 15
3.6 Configure network QoS policy map .................................................................................................................. 15
3.7 Configure queue to traffic-class mapping ......................................................................................................... 15
3.8 Configure class-map queuing policies .............................................................................................................. 15
3.9 Create ETS policy-map for traffic-class bandwidth allocations ........................................................................ 16
3.10 Apply policies and VLAN ID to all switch edge ports (except port channel member ports) ............................. 16