Users Guide

Adding uplinks
To add uplinks:
1. From the Devices drop-down, select Fabric.
The Fabric page is displayed.
2. From the fabrics table, select the fabric and click View Details.
The Fabric Details page is displayed.
3. From the Uplinks section, click Add Uplink.
The Add Uplink window is displayed.
4. Enter Name, Description, select the Uplink Type.
The available options are:
● Ethernet - No Spanning Tree— You must pick at least one Ethernet port from each switch to form a LAG.
Any Ethernet traffic can be passed on this uplink type. This uplink type does not require Spanning Tree Protocol
to be configured on the upstream Ethernet switch. For more information about how to configure the upstream
Ethernet switch, see Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide at https://
infohub.delltechnologies.com/. Before you can create an Ethernet - No STP uplink, all legacy Ethernet uplinks that
use STP must be deleted. There are additional steps that must be completed before creating an Ethernet - No STP
uplink on an existing fabric that was not running the RSTP protocol. For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge
MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide at https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/
● FCoE—You can pick one port from an IOM and associate a single network of FCoE type. This is for FCoE connectivity
that connects to another switch that connects to the FC network. For single fabric, you can have two FCoE uplink, one
from each IOM. Both IOMs must have different network that is, different FCoE VLANs.
In FCoE mode, untagged VLAN on the server port and FCoE uplink must be the same. This condition ensures that the
untagged FIP VLAN discovery (L2 frame) packets are switched to the untagged VLAN. The FCoE uplink is used to
identify FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) mode at the switch. For the FCoE sessions to come up, configure the same untagged
VLAN on FCoE uplinks and server ports.
NOTE: On the uplink FCoE switch, use the default fc-map (0efc00) only.
● FC Gateway—You can pick one or more ports from the same IOM and associate a single network of FCoE type. This
type of uplink is for connectivity to a SAN switch. For single Fabric, you can have two FC gateway uplinks one from each
IOM. Both IOMs must have different network that is, different FCoE VLANs. For a given fabric, you can have at least one
uplink of type FC (either of FCoE, FCDirectAttach, FC Gateway).
In Fabric mode, you can assign any untagged VLAN to Ethernet server ports that belong to a FCoE VLAN that has one or
more FC Gateway uplinks. The FC Gateway uplink is used to identify NPG (N Port Proxy Gateway) mode at the switch.
● FC Direct Attach—You can pick one or more ports from same IOM and associate a single network of FCoE type. This
type of uplink is for direct FC storage connectivity. For single fabric, user can have two FC DirectAttach uplink, one from
each IOM. Both IOMs must have different networks that is, different FCoE VLANs.
In Fabric mode, you can assign any untagged VLAN to Ethernet server ports that belong to a FCoE VLAN that has one or
more FC Direct attach uplinks. The FC Direct attach uplink is used to identify F-Port mode at the switch.
● Ethernet—You can pick one or more Ethernet ports across switches to form a LAG. The network can be of any type.
Also, you must configure Spanning Tree on the upstream network switch.
5. Select Include in Uplink Failure Detection Group. and click Next.
Selecting the Uplink Failure Detection(UFD) detects loss of upstream connectivity and indicates this state to the servers
connected to the switch. UFD associates a set of downstream interfaces with the uplink interfaces. In the event of uplink
failure, the switch operationally disables the corresponding downstream interfaces. This allows the downstream servers to
select alternate paths for upstream connectivity available.
6. Choose the necessary Switch Ports and select any Tagged Networks .
If you are required to configure new network other than the existing ones, click Add Network and enter the network details.
For more details see, Adding Network.
Adding network
You can use the Fabric and Configuration > Network pages to add networks. For more information, see Defining networks.
To add a new network from the Fabric page:
1. From the Devices drop down, select Fabric.
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