Service Manual

To follow the progress of a package installation (or removal), use the show packages command.
Enabling VSN in a Hypervisor Session
To enable VSN on an interface and connect to hypervisors on network servers, follow these steps.
Important Information:
• VSN is only supported on standalone units; it is not supported in stacked configurations.
• VSN supports connections only with VMware and Xen hypervisors.
• You can define up to eight hypervisor sessions on a switch.
• To connect with a VMware hypervisor running on an ESXi 5.0 server, configure the server’s firewall to allow connections only through
the management IP address. You can reconfigure the firewall by using the esxcli network firewall command to create a rule
set that allows the IP address of a Dell Networking switch to pass the firewall. For detailed information, see How to Create Custom
Firewall Rules in ESXi 5.0.
• When you establish a VSN session with a Citrix Xen hypervisor (using the access command) that operates as a slave in a pool, the
connection establishes with the master. The entire pool retrieves the configuration and access information. If you remove the slave
from the pool and it operates as a standalone hypervisor, the VSN session is still active with the master. In this case, the pool retrieves
information and not the standalone hypervisor.
1 Enable VSN on an interface.
INTERFACE mode
vsn enable
By default, VSN is disabled on switch interfaces.
2 Specify the name of a hypervisor session and enter Hypervisor Configuration mode.
CONFIGURATION mode
hypervisor name
Enter up to 40 characters to define the hypervisor session.
3 Define the hypervisor type to which you want to connect.
HYPERVISOR mode
type {vmware | xen-citrix}
To display the currently supported hypervisor types, use the show hypervisor supported command.
4 Establish the connection between the switch and a hypervisor.
HYPERVISOR mode
access url username username password password
Where url is one of the following values:
• For a VMware hypervisor: https://[ip-address]/sdk/vimService username [name] password [password]
• For an Xen hypervisor: http://ip-address username [name] password [password]
• username name: Username to use for authentication on the server.
• password password: Password to use for authentication shown in clear text.
5 Set the mode for retrieving virtual server configurations and updating Dell Networking OS settings on the switch.
HYPERVISOR mode
mode {check | config}
• check: Retrieves configuration information from the hypervisor and notifies the system administrator of any configuration
changes. Enter the configuration changes manually on the switch.
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