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Cisco Nexus 5548UP

Switch Configuration Guide for EqualLogic SANs

Dell Storage Engineering
October 2013

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Page 1: ...Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch Configuration Guide for EqualLogic SANs Dell Storage Engineering October 2013 SISfeedback Dell com ...

Page 2: ...ten permission of Dell Inc is strictly forbidden For more information contact Dell Dell the Dell logo and the Dell badge PowerConnect EqualLogic and Force10 are trademarks of Dell Inc Cisco is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems Inc and or its affiliates in the U S and other countries Date Description February 2013 Initial release October 2013 Updated for firmware 6 0 2 N1 2 ...

Page 3: ... 2 6 Configure Port Channel 8 2 7 Configure portfast on edge ports 9 2 8 Enable VLAN 9 2 9 Enable switch ports 10 2 10 Configure the Nexus policy engine 10 2 10 1Configure CoS for iSCSI 10 2 10 2 Define a QoS map for iSCSI 10 2 10 3 Define a QoS policy map for iSCSI 10 2 10 4 Define a Network QoS class map 11 2 10 5 Define a no drop policy map and enable jumbo frames 11 2 10 6 Define a queuing cla...

Page 4: ...n recommendations see the EqualLogic Configuration Guide at www delltechcenter com page equallogic configuration guide 1 1 Audience This switch configuration guide describes a verified configuration following Dell best practices for an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN and is intended for storage or network administrators and deployment personnel 1 2 Switch details The table below provides an overview of the s...

Page 5: ...6 Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch Configuration Guide 1 3 Cabling diagram The cabling diagram shown below represents the Dell recommend method for deploying your servers and EqualLogic arrays Figure 1 Cabling diagram ...

Page 6: ...ect the cables between switch 1 and switch 2 as shown in Figure 1 for ports 1 4 This will be used as your vPC link 2 2 Delete startup configuration WARNING All previous configuration settings will be deleted switch enable switch write erase Warning This command will erase the startup configuration Do you wish to proceed anyway y n n y switch reload WARNING this command will reboot the system Do yo...

Page 7: ...you like to enter the basic configuration dialog yes no yes Create another login account yes no n n Configure read only SNMP community string yes no n n Configure read write SNMP community string yes no n n Enter the switch name my switch name Continue with Out of band mgmt0 management configuration yes no y y Mgmt0 IPv4 address my IP address Mgmt0 IPv4 netmask my netmask Configure the default gat...

Page 8: ...e destination peer IP address Management VRF will be used as the default VRF Note For the peer IP address use the management IP address of the partner switch switch config vpc domain exit 2 5 Enable link level flow control 802 3x You must perform this step for each individual port that is connected to a storage controller or a host interface port or you can specify a range of ports to configure sw...

Page 9: ...e trunk switch config if range channel group 1 mode active switch config if range exit 2 7 Configure portfast on edge ports switch config interface ethernet 1 5 32 switch config if range spanning tree port type edge Warning edge port type portfast should only be enabled on ports connected to a single host Connecting hubs concentrators switches bridges etc to this interface when edge port type port...

Page 10: ...xus policy engine The following example configures iSCSi traffic for Class of Service CoS 4 and Quality of Service QoS group 3 2 10 1 Configure CoS for iSCSI Repeat this step for each individual interface connected to host and array controller ports or specify a range of ports to configure switch config interface ethernet 1 5 32 switch config if range untagged cos 4 switch config if range exit 2 1...

Page 11: ...switch config pmap nq c pause no drop switch config pmap nq c exit switch config pmap nq exit 2 10 6 Define a queuing class map switch config class map type queuing class iscsi switch config cmap que match qos group 3 2 10 7 Define a queuing policy map switch config cmap que policy map type queuing policy queuing switch config pmap que class type queuing class default switch config pmap c que band...

Page 12: ...e commands from sections 2 1 through 2 12 to configure the second switch 2 14 Disabling DCB Note With Cisco Nexus family products there is no command to fully disable DCB functionality Using the configuration steps in this document results in a proper non DCB environment However disabling LLDP support can effectively prevent the negotiation of DCB by preventing the transmission of DCBx frames It i...

Page 13: ...t practices and information about Dell products and your installations Referenced or recommended Dell publications Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide http en community dell com techcenter storage w wiki equallogic configuration guide aspx Dell EqualLogic Compatibility Matrix http en community dell com techcenter storage w wiki 2661 equallogic compatibility matrix aspx For EqualLogic best practice...

Page 14: ...This white paper is for informational purposes only The content is provided as is without express or implied warranties of any kind ...

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