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Dell PowerEdge Configuration Guide for the M I/O Aggregator 9.14.1.5
About this Guide
- Audience
- Conventions
- Information Symbols
- Related Documents
Before You Start
- Operational Modes
- Default Settings
- Other Auto-Configured Settings
- Data Center Bridging Support
- FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping
- iSCSI Operation
- Link Aggregation
- Link Tracking
- Configuring VLANs
  - Uplink LAG
  - Server-Facing LAGs
- Where to Go From Here
- Deploying FN I/O Module
Configuration Fundamentals
- Accessing the Command Line
- CLI Modes
  - Navigating CLI Modes
- The do Command
- Undoing Commands
- Obtaining Help
- Entering and Editing Commands
- Command History
- Filtering show Command Outputs
- Multiple Users in Configuration Mode
- Configuring a Unique Host Name on the System
- Enabling Secured CLI Mode
- Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot
Configuration Cloning
- Cloning Configuration Output Status
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
- Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging
- Enabling Data Center Bridging
  - Configuring DCB Maps and its Attributes
- Data Center Bridging: Default Configuration
- Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode
- Configuring Priority-Based Flow Control
  - How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented
- Configuring Enhanced Transmission Selection
  - How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented
  - ETS Operation with DCBx
- Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies
- DCBx Operation
- Verifying the DCB Configuration
- QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue Assignment
- Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation
- Configuring the Dynamic Buffer Method
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Assigning an IP Address using DHCP
- Debugging DHCP Client Operation
- DHCP Client
- How DHCP Client is Implemented
- DHCP Client on a Management Interface
- DHCP Client on a VLAN
- DHCP Packet Format and Options
- Option 82
- Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses
- Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information
FIP Snooping
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network
- FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges
- How FIP Snooping is Implemented
- Configuring FIP Snooping
- Displaying FIP Snooping Information
- FIP Snooping Example
- Debugging FIP Snooping
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
- IGMP Overview
- IGMP Version 2
  - Joining a Multicast Group
  - Leaving a Multicast Group
- IGMP Version 3
- Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources
- Leaving and Staying in Groups
- IGMP Snooping
- How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator
- Disabling Multicast Flooding
- Displaying IGMP Information
Interfaces
- Interface Auto-Configuration
- Interface Types
- Viewing Interface Information
- Disabling and Re-enabling a Physical Interface
- Layer 2 Mode
- Management Interfaces
  - Accessing an Aggregator
  - Configuring a Management Interface
  - Configuring a Static Route for a Management Interface
- VLAN Membership
  - Default VLAN
  - Port-Based VLANs
  - VLANs and Port Tagging
  - Configuring VLAN Membership
  - Displaying VLAN Membership
  - Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN
  - Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN
  - VLAN Configuration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels
- Port Channel Interfaces
  - Port Channel Definitions and Standards
  - Port Channel Benefits
  - Port Channel Implementation
  - 1GbE and 10GbE Interfaces in Port Channels
  - Uplink Port Channel: VLAN Membership
  - Server-Facing Port Channel: VLAN Membership
  - Displaying Port Channel Information
- Interface Range
  - Bulk Configuration Examples
- Monitor and Maintain Interfaces
  - Maintenance Using TDR
- Configuring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics
- Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames
- Enabling Pause Frames
- MTU Size
- Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces
- Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
  - Setting Auto-Negotiation Options
- Viewing Interface Information
  - Clearing Interface Counters
- Enabling the Management Address TLV on All Interfaces of an Aggregator
- Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges
- Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing
iSCSI Optimization
- iSCSI Optimization Overview
- Monitoring iSCSI Traffic Flows
- Information Monitored in iSCSI Traffic Flows
- Detection and Auto configuration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays
- iSCSI Optimization: Operation
- Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information
Isolated Networks for Aggregators
- Configuring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings
Link Aggregation
- How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator
- LACP Example
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Configuring Auto LAG
- Configuring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active
- Optimizing Traffic Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode
- Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage
- Enabling LACP link-fallback
- Enabling the Verification of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle
- Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle
- Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Configuration
- Multiple Uplink LAGs
- Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports
- Multiple Uplink LAGs with 40G Member Ports
Layer 2
- Managing the MAC Address Table
  - Clearing the MAC Address Entries
  - Displaying the MAC Address Table
- Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming
  - MAC Address Station Move
  - MAC Move Optimization
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Protocol Data Units
- Configure LLDP
- CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Configurations
- Enabling LLDP
  - Disabling and Undoing LLDP
- Advertising TLVs
- Optional TLVs
- LLDP Operation
- Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
- Viewing the LLDP Configuration
- Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents
- Configuring LLDPDU Intervals
- Configuring a Time to Live
- Clearing LLDP Counters
- Debugging LLDP
- Relevant Management Objects
Object Tracking
- Object Tracking Overview
- Object Tracking Configuration
- Displaying Tracked Objects
Port Monitoring
- Configuring Port Monitoring
- Important Points to Remember
- Port Monitoring
Security
- Understanding Banner Settings
- Accessing the I/O Aggregator Using the CMC Console Only
- AAA Authentication
  - Configuration Task List for AAA Authentication
- AAA Authorization
  - Privilege Levels Overview
  - Configuration Task List for Privilege Levels
- RADIUS
  - RADIUS Authentication
  - Configuration Task List for RADIUS
- TACACS+
  - Configuration Task List for TACACS+
    - Choosing TACACS+ as the Authentication Method
    - Monitoring TACACS+
  - TACACS+ Remote Authentication
    - Specifying a TACACS+ Server Host
- Enabling SCP and SSH
- Telnet
- VTY Line and Access-Class Configuration
- Dell EMC Networking OS Security Hardening
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Implementation Information
- Configuring the Simple Network Management Protocol
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Setting up SNMP
  - Creating a Community
- Setting Up User-Based Security (SNMPv3)
- Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using SNMP
- Enabling a Subset of SNMP Traps
- Reading Managed Object Values
- Displaying the Ports in a VLAN using SNMP
- Fetching Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP
- Deriving Interface Indices
- MIB Support to Display Reason for Last System Reboot
  - Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot Using SNMP
- MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics
- Monitoring BGP sessions via SNMP
- Monitor Port-Channels
- Entity MIBS
- SNMP Traps for Link Status
- Standard VLAN MIB
- MIB Support to Display the Available Memory Size on Flash
  - Viewing the Available Flash Memory Size
- MIB Support to Display the Software Core Files Generated by the System
  - Viewing the Software Core Files Generated by the System
- MIB Support to Display the Available Partitions on Flash
  - Viewing the Available Partitions on Flash
- MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics
- MIB Support to Display Egress Queue Statistics
  - Viewing the ECMP Group Count Information
- MIB Support for entAliasMappingTable
  - Viewing the entAliasMappingTable MIB
- MIB Support for LAG
  - Viewing the LAG MIB
- MIB Support to Display Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
  - MIB Support to Display Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
    - Viewing the Details of Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
  - MIB Support to Display Organizational Specific Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
    - Viewing the Details of Organizational Specific Unrecognized LLDP TLVs
- Transceiver Monitoring
Stacking
- Stacking Aggregators
- Stacking Port Numbers
- Stacking in PMUX Mode
- Configuring a Switch Stack
- Configuring the Uplink Speed of Interfaces as 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- Merging Two Operational Stacks
- Verifying a Stack Configuration
  - Using Show Commands
- Troubleshooting a Switch Stack
  - Failure Scenarios
- Upgrading a Switch Stack
- Upgrading a Single Stack Unit
Storm Control
- Configure Storm Control
  - Configuring Storm Control from CONFIGURATION Mode
  - Configuring Storm Control from INTERFACE Mode
Broadcast Storm Control
- Disabling Broadcast Storm Control
- Displaying Broadcast-Storm Control Status
- Configuring Storm Control
SupportAssist
- Configuring SupportAssist Using a Configuration Wizard
- Configuring SupportAssist Manually
- Configuring SupportAssist Activity
- Configuring SupportAssist Company
- Configuring SupportAssist Person
- Configuring SupportAssist Server
- Viewing SupportAssist Configuration
System Time and Date
- Setting the Time for the Software Clock
- Setting the Timezone
- Setting Daylight Savings Time
  - Setting Daylight Saving Time Once
  - Setting Recurring Daylight Saving Time
- Configuring the Offset-Threshold for NTP Audit Log
- Configuring NTP control key password
Uplink Failure Detection (UFD)
- Feature Description
- How Uplink Failure Detection Works
- UFD and NIC Teaming
- Important Points to Remember
- Uplink Failure Detection (SMUX mode)
- Configuring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode)
- Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode)
- Displaying Uplink Failure Detection
- Sample Configuration: Uplink Failure Detection
PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator
- I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode
- Configuring and Changing to PMUX Mode
- Configuring the Commands without a Separate User Account
- Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)
FC Flex IO Modules
- FC Flex IO Modules
- Understanding and Working of the FC Flex IO Modules
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet for FC Flex IO Modules
FC FLEXIO FPORT
- FC FLEXIO FPORT
- Configuring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode
- Name Server
- FCoE Maps
- Creating an FCoE Map
- Zoning
- Creating Zone and Adding Members
- Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members
- Creating Zonesets
- Activating a Zoneset
- Displaying the Fabric Parameters
NPIV Proxy Gateway
- NPIV Proxy Gateway Configuration
- NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities
- Configuring an NPIV Proxy Gateway
- Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information
Upgrade Procedures
Debugging and Diagnostics
- Debugging Aggregator Operation
- Software show Commands
- Offline Diagnostics
  - Important Points to Remember
  - Running Offline Diagnostics
- Trace Logs
  - Auto Save on Crash or Rollover
- Using the Show Hardware Commands
- Environmental Monitoring
- Buffer Tuning
  - Deciding to Tune Buffers
    - Using a Pre-Defined Buffer Profile
  - Sample Buffer Profile Configuration
- Troubleshooting Packet Loss
- Enabling Buffer Statistics Tracking
- Restoring the Factory Default Settings
Standards Compliance
- IEEE Compliance
- RFC and I-D Compliance
- MIB Location

Admin Parameters:

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Admin is enabled

TC-grp Priority# Bandwidth TSA

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0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 100% ETS

1 - -

2 - -

3 - -

4 - -

5 - -

6 - -

7 - -

8 - -

Stack unit 1 stack port all

Max Supported TC Groups is 4

Number of Traffic Classes is 1

Admin mode is on

Admin Parameters:

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Admin is enabled

TC-grp Priority# Bandwidth TSA

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0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 100% ETS

1 - -

2 - -

3 - -

4 - -

5 - -

6 - -

7 - -

8 - -

Example of the show interface DCBx detail Command

Dell# show interface tengigabitethernet 0/4 dcbx detail

Dell#show interface te 0/4 dcbx detail

E-ETS Configuration TLV enabled e-ETS Configuration TLV disabled

R-ETS Recommendation TLV enabled r-ETS Recommendation TLV disabled

P-PFC Configuration TLV enabled p-PFC Configuration TLV disabled

F-Application priority for FCOE enabled f-Application Priority for FCOE disabled

I-Application priority for iSCSI enabled i-Application Priority for iSCSI disabled

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Interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/4

Remote Mac Address 00:00:00:00:00:11

Port Role is Auto-Upstream

DCBX Operational Status is Enabled

Is Configuration Source? TRUE

Local DCBX Compatibility mode is CEE

Local DCBX Configured mode is CEE

Peer Operating version is CEE

Local DCBX TLVs Transmitted: ErPfi

Local DCBX Status

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DCBX Operational Version is 0

DCBX Max Version Supported is 0

Sequence Number: 2

Acknowledgment Number: 2

Protocol State: In-Sync

Peer DCBX Status:

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DCBX Operational Version is 0

DCBX Max Version Supported is 255

Sequence Number: 2

Acknowledgment Number: 2

2 Input PFC TLV pkts, 3 Output PFC TLV pkts, 0 Error PFC pkts, 0 PFC Pause Tx pkts,

0 Pause Rx pkts

Data Center Bridging (DCB)