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Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch Configuration Guide
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Dell recommended switch configuration
These steps show you how to configure two Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches with a vPC interconnect. The
switches are interconnected using four of the 10Gb ports configured as the vPC link.
2.1
Hardware configuration
1.
Power on both switches
2.
Connect a serial cable to the management port.
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 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 you want to continue? (y/n) [n]
y
Note:
The switch will reboot.
2.3
Running the basic system configuration
The following steps use the setup utility to configure connectivity for basic management of the system.
After the switch fully reboots, the following prompts will appear:
Abort Power On Auto Provisioning and continue with normal setup ?(yes/no)[n]:
y
---- System Admin Account Setup ----
Do you want to enforce secure password standard (yes/no):
yes
Enter the password for "admin":
my password
