Administrator Guide

Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN................................................................................................................. 91
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels..........................................................................................91
Port Channel Interfaces....................................................................................................................................................93
Port Channel Denitions and Standards..................................................................................................................... 93
Port Channel Benets................................................................................................................................................ 93
Port Channel Implementation..................................................................................................................................... 93
1GbE and 10GbE Interfaces in Port Channels............................................................................................................. 94
Uplink Port Channel: VLAN Membership....................................................................................................................94
Server-Facing Port Channel: VLAN Membership....................................................................................................... 94
Displaying Port Channel Information...........................................................................................................................94
Interface Range................................................................................................................................................................96
Bulk Conguration Examples......................................................................................................................................96
Monitor and Maintain Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................97
Maintenance Using TDR.............................................................................................................................................98
Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames..................................................................................................................... 98
Enabling Pause Frames.................................................................................................................................................... 99
MTU Size......................................................................................................................................................................... 99
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces........................................................................................................................100
Setting Auto-Negotiation Options.............................................................................................................................102
Viewing Interface Information......................................................................................................................................... 103
Clearing Interface Counters...................................................................................................................................... 103
Enabling the Management Address TLV on All Interfaces of an Aggregator....................................................................104
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges........................................................................................................................104
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing...............................................................................................104
9 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................... 105
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................105
iSCSI Optimization Overview..........................................................................................................................................105
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows........................................................................................................................................ 106
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.................................................................................................................. 106
Detection and Auto conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................................107
iSCSI Optimization: Operation.........................................................................................................................................107
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information.......................................................................................................................107
10 Isolated Networks for Aggregators.............................................................................109
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings...................................................................................................... 109
11 Link Aggregation..........................................................................................................110
Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................110
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator............................................................................................................110
Uplink LAG................................................................................................................................................................. 111
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................... 111
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................. 111
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout.................................................................................................................................111
LACP Example.................................................................................................................................................................112
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)...................................................................................................................... 112
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