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Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dell recommended switch configuration
- 2.1 Hardware configuration
- 2.2 Delete startup configuration
- 2.3 Configure out of band (OOB) management port
- 2.4 Configure route for OOB management port (optional)
- 2.5 Configure login credentials
- 2.6 Enable switch ports
- 2.7 Enable Jumbo Frames
- 2.8 Configure flow control
- 2.9 Configure spanning tree on edge ports
- 2.10 Configure port channel for LAG
- 2.11 Configure QSFP ports for LAG
- 2.12 Save configuration
- 2.13 Configure additional switch
- 3 Configure Data Center Bridging (DCB) (optional)
- 4 Reverting from DCB to non-DCB configuration (optional)
- 5 Optional stack configuration
- 5.1 Delete startup configuration on the first switch
- 5.2 Configure stack on the first switch
- 5.3 Delete startup configuration on the second switch
- 5.4 Configure stack on the second switch
- 5.5 Verify stack configuration
- 5.6 Configure out of band (OOB) management port
- 5.7 Configure route for OOB management port (optional)
- 5.8 Configure login credentials
- 5.9 Configuring switch ports
- 5.10 Save configuration
8 SCG1005 Dell Networking and Force10 S4820T Switch Configuration Guide for PS Series SANs
2 Dell recommended switch configuration
These steps show you how to configure two Dell Networking or Force10 S4820T switches with a Link
Aggregation Group (LAG). The switches are interconnected using two of the 40 GbE Quad Small Form-
factor Pluggable (QSFP) uplink ports, and the LAG is configured for Dynamic Link Aggregation Control
Protocol (LACP).
2.1 Hardware configuration
1. Power on the two switches.
2. Connect a serial cable to the serial port of the first switch.
3. Using Putty or another terminal utility, open a serial connection session to the switch.
4. Open your terminal emulator and configure it to use the serial port (usually COM1 but this may vary
depending on your system). Configure serial communications for 9600,N,8,1 and no flow control.
5. Connect the (QSFP) LAG cables between the switches, by connecting port 48 on switch 1 to port 48
on switch2 and port 52 on switch 1 to port 52 on switch 2. See this configuration in Figure 1.
2.2 Delete startup configuration
Note: The following commands will delete all configuration settings.
FTOS>enable
FTOS#delete startup-config
Proceed to delete startup-config [confirm yes/no]yes
FTOS#reload
System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]no
Proceed with reload [confirm yes/no]yes
Note: The switch will reboot.
2.3 Configure out of band (OOB) management port
FTOS>enable
Password:
After the startup configuration is deleted, the factory default Enable mode password is force10.
FTOS>#config
FTOS(conf)#interface Managementethernet 0/0