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• Flow control (transmit and receive) is enabled and Data Center Bridging (DCB) is disabled.

NOTE: Enabling flow control is a requirement for Fluid Cache.

3 Save the running configuration.

4 To implement the changes, restart the switch.

Configuring a Dell Networking Switch

The following procedure is for one of the supported Dell Networking switches listed in the table in

Requirements For Fluid Cache. For all other switches, see the manufacturer’s documentation.

To configure a switch containing physical ports 0, 1, 2, and 3 for a cache network with four nodes connected

to the switch’s 10-gigabit Ethernet ports:

1 Telnet into the switch and enter the login name and password to enter Exec mode.

While you are in Exec mode, the > prompt is displayed following the host name prompt, which is FTOS

by default.

telnet 172.31.1.53

Trying 172.31.1.53...

Connected to 172.31.1.53.

Escape character is '^]'.

Password: FTOS>

2 Enter Exec Privilege mode by running the command: enable

3 Enter Configuration mode by running the command: configure

4 Select either a single physical port or range of physical ports:

• To configure a single port (in this example, port 0), run the command: interface

TenGigabitEthernet 0/0

• To configure a range of ports (in this example, ports 0-3), run the command: interface range

TenGigabitEthernet 0/0 - 3

5 Define static IP addressing by running the command: no ip address

6 Enter Layer 2 mode by running the command: switchport

7 Enable the port by running the command: no shutdown

8 Enable flow control and disable DCB by running the command: flowcontrol rx on tx on

NOTE: Enabling flow control is a requirement for Fluid Cache.

9 Close the configuration page by running the command: exit

10 Repeat tasks 4–9 for the remaining physical ports in the cache network.

11 Exit Exec Privilege mode by running the command: exit

12 Save all the changes by running the command: write

NOTE

: To create a VLAN (for example, to use available ports on an existing network switch to create the

cache network), make sure that the cache network ports are in Layer 2 mode and in the untagged state.

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