Deployment Guide

31 Dell EMC Networking Virtualization Overlay with BGP EVPN
7 Configure spine switches
This chapter details the configuration commands issued to the two Z9264F-ON spine switches, Spine1 and
Spine2. The switches start at their factory default settings per Section 5.3. The commands in the sections that
follow should be entered in the order shown.
Note: Both spine switch configuration files are provided as text file attachments to this .pdf. Section 1.2
describes how to access .pdf attachments.
The configuration of the spines consists of interface configuration and BGP configuration.
7.1 Initial configuration settings
1. Enter configuration mode with the configure terminal command.
2. Configure the hostname.
3. If DHCP is not used, configure the OOB management IP address and default gateway.
4. Enable spanning tree protocol as a precaution against loops. Any spanning tree protocol type
supported by the switch is acceptable. This example uses RSTP.
5. Enable BFD.
Initial configuration settings
Spine1
Spine2
configure terminal
hostname Spine1
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address
ip address 100.67.166.237/24
no shutdown
management route 0.0.0.0/0
100.67.166.254
spanning-tree mode rstp
bfd enable
configure terminal
hostname Spine2
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address
ip address 100.67.166.233/24
no shutdown
management route 0.0.0.0/0
100.67.166.254
spanning-tree mode rstp
bfd enable
7.2 Downstream interface configuration
In this section, the six point-to-point interfaces to the Leaf switches downstream are configured, and the router
ID is assigned.
1. For each downstream interface:
a. Provide an interface description.
b. Put each interface into Layer 3 mode by running the no switchport command and assigning
an IP address per Table 1.
c. Set the MTU to 9216 bytes to allow jumbo frames.