Concept Guide

Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................429
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................429
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................429
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 430
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................430
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 431
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel......................................................................................................431
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................433
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 433
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 434
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 435
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................435
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................435
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................436
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 436
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................436
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................437
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 438
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 438
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 439
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 439
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................440
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 440
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 441
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 442
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................443
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................444
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................444
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................445
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 446
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................446
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................448
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 449
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 450
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................450
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................451
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................452
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................452
Setting the speed to 10/100/1000 Mbps on SFP-1G-T transceiver..................................................................452
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 452
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 454
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................454
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 455
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.......................................................................................................... 456
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 458
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