Administrator Guide

8 Dell Campus Networking Interoperability with Cisco Catalyst 1.1 | version 1.1
2 Deployment Scenarios
In the sections that follow, a variety of network deployment scenarios are discussed along with step-by-step
instructions and commands required to build each setup.
2.1 Virtual LANs
A Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is an implementation of IEEE specification 802.1Q. Operating at layer 2
of the OSI reference model, a VLAN is a means of parsing a single network into logical groups of users or
organizations as if they physically resided on their own dedicated LAN segment. VLANs allow a network to be
logically segmented without regard to the physical locations of devices in the network. VLANs also reduce the
size of broadcast domains by limiting the number of hosts receiving ARP requests.
In Figure 4, VLAN 30 is comprised of ports on both the Dell N3024 and Cisco 6504 switches.
1
2
3
FAN
STATUS
3
FAN-MOD-4HS
WS-C6504-E
STATUS
WS-X6748-GE-TX
47
48
37
38
35
36
25
26
23
24
13
14
11
12
1
2
4 8 P O R T
12
11
9
10
7 8 5 6 3 4 1 2
24
23
21 22 19 20 17 18 15 16 13 14 36
35
33 34 31 32 29 30 27 28 25 26 48
47
45 46 43 44 41 42 39 40 37 38
10/100/1000
GE MOD
FABRIC ENABLED
RJ45
SUPERVISOR 720 WITH INTEGRATED SWITCH FABRIC/PFC3
VS-S720-10G
STATUS SYSTEM ACTIVE PWR MGMT
RESET
DISK 0
1
LINK LINK
2
3
UPLINK
CONSOLE
LINK
10GE UPLINK
4 5
USB
LINK
EJECT
SFP
10/100/1000
STATUS
8 PORT 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET MODULE
WS-X6708-10GB
PORT
3
PORT
2
PORT
4
PORT
1
LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
PORT
5
PORT
6
PORT
7
PORT
8
Cisco 6504
Dell N3024
VLAN 30
Stack No.
1
2
1 2SFP+
3 5 7 9 11
4 6 8 10 12
13 15 17 19 21
14 16 18 20 22 24
LNK ACT
1
2
COMBO P
23
LNK ACT
VLAN 30 on a Cisco and Dell N-Series Switch