Deployment Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 33
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 34
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................34
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 34
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................34
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 34
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................35
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................35
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 35
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................36
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................36
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping...........................................................................................................................36
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................36
Link Aggregation...............................................................................................................................................................37
Link Tracking..................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 37
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Server-Facing LAGs...................................................................................................................................................37
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................38
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 39
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................39
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................40
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 47
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 47
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................49
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................49
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