Deployment Guide

The Network Settings subsection displays out-of-band management settings about the managed I/O

Aggregator device:

• DHCP Enabled — Enabled or Disabled

• IP Address

• Subnet Mask

• Gateway

• MAC Address

Editing the Active IOA Mode

From the Dashboard page you can edit the operational mode of the I/O Aggregator device.

1. From the navigation menu, select Dashboard.

The Dashboard page appears.

2. In the IOA Information Properties section, select Edit in the Active IOA Mode field.

The Mode Settings dialog box appears.

3. In the IOA Operational Mode section, select the new mode:

• Standalone Mode (default) — Default mode of the I/O Aggregator device. In this mode, all ports

are configured as members of all VLANs. All VLANs are up and can send or receive Layer 2 traffic.

• Stack Mode — Multiple switches operate as single unit. A single switch in the stack (Master

switch) manages all units in the stack and uses a single IP address that you can use to manage

every port in the stack.

• VLT Mode — Virtual Link Trunking. VLT enables physical links between two chassis to appear as a

single virtual link to the network core or other switches such as Edge, Access or ToR. VLT reduces

the role of Spanning Tree protocols by allowing LAG terminations on two separate distribution or

core switches, and by supporting a loop free topology. VLT institutes Layer 2 multipathing,

creating redundancy through increased bandwidth, enabling multiple parallel paths between

nodes and load-balancing traffic where alternative paths exist.

• Programmable MUX Mode — Programmable Multiplex mode. This mode provides flexibility of

operation with added configurability. This mode creates multiple LAGs, configuring VLANs on

uplinks and the server side, and configuring data center bridging (DCB) parameters.

Programmable MUX mode supports both stacking and VLT operations. You can make any

configuration or provisioning of the device through the CLI.

• Full Switch — All commands and configurations supported on MXL available in this mode. This

mode offers Layer 2/Layer 3 switching functionalities on the Dell FX2 chassis.

NOTE: This mode is only available for FN IOA for FX2 chassis devices.

4. (Standalone, Stack, and VLT Modes for MIOA for M1000e chassis devices only) In the Quadport Mode

section, select Enable Quadport to configure solitary QSFP+ 40 G ports into four 10 G ports.

5. (Stack mode only) In the Stacking Unit area, from the Unit drop-down menu, select a unit from 0–5.

6. Click Apply.

7. Reboot the I/O Aggregator device.

NOTE: After you reboot the I/O Aggregator device, the selected active IOA mode might not

remain the one previously selected.

Editing the Host Name

In the Summary tab of the Dashboard page, you can edit the host name of the I/O Aggregator device.

1. From the navigation menu, click Dashboard.

2. In the Properties section of the Summary tab, click Edit next to the Host Name field.