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4 Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON and S4048T-ON Switch Configuration Guide for Dell EMC SC Series and Dell PS Series SANs | SCG1026
3 Switch command-line configuration (OS 10.x) ........................................................................................................... 14
3.1 Dell EMC recommended switch configuration .................................................................................................. 14
3.1.1 Check switch operating system version ........................................................................................................... 14
3.1.2 Delete startup configuration .............................................................................................................................. 15
3.1.3 Configure out-of-band management port ......................................................................................................... 15
3.1.4 Configure login credentials ............................................................................................................................... 15
3.1.5 Disable iSCSI monitoring .................................................................................................................................. 15
3.1.6 Enable switch ports .......................................................................................................................................... 15
3.1.7 Enable Jumbo frames and flow control ............................................................................................................ 16
3.1.8 Configure spanning tree on edge ports ............................................................................................................ 16
3.1.9 Configure port channel for link aggregation ..................................................................................................... 16
3.1.10 Save configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 16
3.1.11 Configure additional switch .......................................................................................................................... 17
3.2 Configure Data Center Bridging (optional) ....................................................................................................... 17
3.2.1 Disable iSCSI .................................................................................................................................................... 17
3.2.2 Disable 802.3x flowcontrol on all ports ............................................................................................................. 17
3.2.3 Create tagged VLAN for all ports and port-channels ........................................................................................ 17
3.2.4 Create QoS policy-map with dot1p values as trusted ...................................................................................... 17
3.2.5 Create PFC dot1p traffic class .......................................................................................................................... 18
3.2.6 Configure network QoS policy map .................................................................................................................. 18
3.2.7 Configure ETS policies ..................................................................................................................................... 18
3.2.8 Create ETS policy-map for bandwidth allocations ............................................................................................ 18
3.2.9 Apply policies and VLAN ID to all switch edge ports (except port-channel member ports) ............................. 19
3.2.10 Apply policies and VLAN ID on port-channel and its member ports ............................................................ 19
3.2.11 Set system QoS policies .............................................................................................................................. 19
3.2.12 Enable DCB .................................................................................................................................................. 19
3.2.13 Save configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 20
3.2.14 Reload switch ............................................................................................................................................... 20
3.2.15 Configure additional switches ...................................................................................................................... 20
3.2.16 Verify DCB status ......................................................................................................................................... 20
3.2.17 Show commands to verify DCBx, ETS, and PFC status on individual ports ............................................... 20
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 21
A.1 Related resources ............................................................................................................................................ 21