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BLADEOS 6.3 Application Guide

BMD00178, April 2010

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Command Replacements

STP Edge and Link

The following commands have been moved in the CLI:

The equivalent ISCLI config-if mode commands (under 

interface

 

port

 

<#>

) have also been 

moved:

When the switch boots with BLADEOS 6.3 software, any prior configuration in the active 
configuration block will automatically be updated to use the new command paths.

Old CLI Path

New Path

/cfg/l2/stg

<#>

/port

<#>

/edge

/cfg/port

<#>

/stp/edge

/cfg/l2/stg

<#>

/port

<#>

/link

/cfg/port

<#>

/stp/link

/cfg/l2/mrst/cist/port

<#>

/edge

/cfg/port

<#>

/stp/edge

/cfg/l2/mrst/cist/port

<#>

/link

/cfg/port

<#>

/stp/link

Old ISCLI Path

New Path

spanning-tree stp <#> edge

spanning-tree edge

spanning-tree stp <#> link

spanning-tree link-type

spanning-tree mstp cist edge

spanning-tree edge

spanning-tree mstp cist link-type

spanning-tree link-type

Summary of Contents for BLADEOS 6.3

Page 1: ...2350 Mission College Blvd Suite 600 Santa Clara CA 95054 www bladenetwork net BLADEOS Release Notes 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter Version 6 3 Part Number BMD00178 April 2010...

Page 2: ...ical data and commercial software documentation as those terms are used in FAR 12 211 12 212 Oct 1995 Government End Users are authorized to use this documentation only in accordance with those rights...

Page 3: ...ide for the 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter BLADEOS 6 3 Command Reference for the 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter BLADEOS 6 3 ISCLI Reference for the...

Page 4: ...ayer 2 3 embedded network switch that features tight integration with IBM BladeCenter management modules Figure 1 1 10Gb Uplink ESM Faceplate The GbESM has the following port capacities Three external...

Page 5: ...witch disables the port and generates a syslog message indicating that the DAC is not approved The GbESM does not disable the SFP ports when using MSA compliant DAC cables For best results the followi...

Page 6: ...image1 and image2 as well as boot software called boot When you load new software you must specify where it should be placed either into image1 image2 or boot For example if your active image is curre...

Page 7: ...system then prompts you to confirm your request Once confirmed the software will load into the switch 7 If software is loaded into a different image than the one most recently booted the system will...

Page 8: ...er if applicable 5 The system prompts you to confirm your request Once confirmed the software will load into the switch 6 When loading is complete use the following command in Global Configuration mod...

Page 9: ...onfiguration Management page appears 3 If you are loading software from your computer HTTP client skip this step and go to the next Otherwise if you are loading software from a FTP TFTP server enter t...

Page 10: ...ess 2 and follow the screen prompts To perform an Xmodem download press 3 and follow the screen prompts To exit the Boot Management menu press 4 The booting process continues Recovering from a Failed...

Page 11: ...ers start XModem on your terminal emulator 6 Select the Boot Image to download The XModem initiates the file transfer When the download is complete a message similar to the following is displayed Swit...

Page 12: ...lect the image number to load the new image 1 or 2 It is recommended that you select 1 A message similar to the following is displayed 13 When you see the following message change the Serial Port char...

Page 13: ...ts of all the switches that are part of the stack The number of available IP interfaces VLANs Trunks Trunk Links and other switch attributes are not aggregated among the switches in a stack The totals...

Page 14: ...t supported Active Multi Path Protocol AMP SFD sFlow port monitoring Uni Directional Link Detection UDLD Port flood blocking BCM rate control Link Layer Detection Protocol LLDP Protocol based VLANs RI...

Page 15: ...ualization policies and ACLs The administrator can pre provision VEs by adding the MAC addresses of potential VEs to a VM group When a VE with a pre provisioned MAC address becomes connected to the sw...

Page 16: ...ing criteria since the filter is explicitly assigned to a VLAN by nature Once a VMAP filter is created it can be assigned or removed using the following commands For a regular VLAN For a VM group When...

Page 17: ...ent features on the GbESM They are configured separately and both can run in parallel on the switch with no relation to one another serving different IPv6 and IPv4 traffic respectively OSPFv3 command...

Page 18: ...not supported on AMP configured switches Use the following command to access the AMP configuration menu Port Trunk Hashing Enhancements Network traffic is statistically distributed among the ports in...

Page 19: ...n disabling the IPV4 management interface from the AMM This removes the IPv4 routes to the switch severing communication to the IPv4 management interface on the switch DHCPv6 Behavior The DHCPv6 serve...

Page 20: ...y is allocated for each unique join request based on the combination of the port VLAN and IGMP group address If multiple ports join the same IGMP group they require separate IGMP entries even if using...

Page 21: ...The following table correlates the Firmware Type listed in the IBM management module s Web interface Firmware VPD window to the GbESM software version Within the IBM management module Web interface th...

Page 22: ...and the management module go to the I O Module Configuration window on the management module s Web interface Under the New Static IP Configuration section click Save to trigger the management module t...

Page 23: ...r keys 1 One key is generated to replace the current server key if used 2 A second key is generated as a spare in case the current server key is used and the specified interval expires 3 A third key i...

Page 24: ...e for each switch a single SYSLOG server can distinguish between the various GbESMs in the network Refer to System Host Log Configuration in the BLADEOS 6 3 Command Reference Internal Port Autonegotia...

Page 25: ...in the active configuration block will automatically be updated to use the new command paths Old CLI Path New Path cfg l2 stg port edge cfg port stp edge cfg l2 stg port link cfg port stp link cfg l2...

Page 26: ...bal BPDU setting was enabled that setting will be removed and BPDU Guard will be applied to all ports where the port fast forward feature is enabled This conversion will also be applied when loading c...

Page 27: ...it is recommended that the administrator review the configured values and make any appropriate changes ID 38556 Access Control Lists When an Access Control List ACL is installed on two different port...

Page 28: ...ol If a static trunk on a GbESM is connected to another GbESM with LACP configured but no active LACP trunk the info l2 trunk command might erroneously report the static trunk as forwarding Since LACP...

Page 29: ...an ACL or ACL Group to one port in a trunk BLADEOS does not automatically assign the ACL to other ports in the trunk and it does not prompt you to assign the ACL to other ports in the trunk Solution...

Page 30: ...bered port If the port that was down comes up again the traffic is not re hashed back to the recovered port Browser Based Interface Some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 x do not perf...

Page 31: ...sia Israel time zone BLADEOS sets the end of Daylight Saving Time DST as the last week in September However because the observed end of DST varies according to the date of the Yom Kippur holiday in th...

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