Specifications

4 Contents
4 Installing and Configuring the Switch . . 17
Installing the Switch Blade in a PowerEdge M1000e. . 19
Connecting a Console Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Invoking the X-Loader and U-Boot CLIs
. . . . . . . . . 22
Performing the Initial Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . 22
Initial Configuration Procedure
. . . . . . . . . . . 23
5 Assembling a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring and Bringing Up a Stack . . . . . . . . . . 26
Managing a Stack
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Master and Member Switches
. . . . . . . . . . . 28
Stack Startup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6 Splitting 40GbE QSFP+ Ports into 10GbE SFP+
Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7 Switch Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
DCB Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
FCoE Connectivity
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
iSCSI Operation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32