Deployment Guide

Table of contents
3 Dell EMC Networking S4148-ON and S4128-ON Switch Configuration Guide for Dell EMC SC Series SANs | SCG3704
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
2 Dell EMC recommended switch configuration ............................................................................................................. 7
2.1 Hardware configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Check firmware version ...................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Delete startup configuration ................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3 Switch profiles (only for S4148-ON and its variants) .......................................................................................... 8
2.4 Configure unified ports on S4148U-ON .............................................................................................................. 8
2.5 Configure out of band (OOB) management port ................................................................................................ 8
2.6 Configure login credentials ................................................................................................................................. 9
2.7 Configure QSPF+ and QSFP28 ports to 4 x 10GbE breakout ports .................................................................. 9
2.8 Enable switch ports ............................................................................................................................................ 9
2.9 iSCSI enable ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.10 Enable Jumbo frames and flow control (optional) ............................................................................................ 10
2.11 Configure spanning tree on edge ports ............................................................................................................ 10
2.12 Save configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 10
2.13 Configure additional switch ............................................................................................................................... 11
3 Configure Data Center Bridging (DCB) (optional) ...................................................................................................... 12
3.1 Disable iSCSI .................................................................................................................................................... 12
3.2 Disable 802.3x flowcontrol on all ports ............................................................................................................. 12
3.3 Enable DCB ...................................................................................................................................................... 12
3.4 Create tagged VLAN for all ports and port-channels ........................................................................................ 12
3.5 Create QOS policy map with dot1p values as trusted ...................................................................................... 13
3.6 Create PFC dot1p traffic class .......................................................................................................................... 13
3.7 Configure network QoS policy map .................................................................................................................. 13
3.8 Configure ETS policies ..................................................................................................................................... 14
3.9 Create ETS policy-map for bandwidth allocations ............................................................................................ 14
3.10 QoS policy ........................................................................................................................................................ 14
3.11 Apply policies and VLAN ID to all switch edge ports ........................................................................................ 15
3.12 iSCSI enable ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
3.13 Save configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 15