Users Guide

Displaying VLAN Membership.....................................................................................................................................97
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN.......................................................................................................................97
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN.................................................................................................................98
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels.........................................................................................98
Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................................................................100
Port Channel Denitions and Standards....................................................................................................................100
Port Channel Benets...............................................................................................................................................100
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................... 100
1GbE and 10GbE Interfaces in Port Channels.............................................................................................................101
Uplink Port Channel: VLAN Membership................................................................................................................... 101
Server-Facing Port Channel: VLAN Membership.......................................................................................................101
Displaying Port Channel Information.......................................................................................................................... 101
Interface Range.............................................................................................................................................................. 102
Bulk Conguration Examples.....................................................................................................................................103
Monitor and Maintain Interfaces..................................................................................................................................... 104
Maintenance Using TDR........................................................................................................................................... 105
Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames....................................................................................................................105
Enabling Pause Frames...................................................................................................................................................106
MTU Size........................................................................................................................................................................106
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 107
Setting Auto-Negotiation Options.............................................................................................................................109
Viewing Interface Information..........................................................................................................................................110
Clearing Interface Counters........................................................................................................................................111
Enabling the Management Address TLV on All Interfaces of an Aggregator..................................................................... 111
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges......................................................................................................................... 111
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing.................................................................................................111
9 iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................... 113
Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................113
iSCSI Optimization Overview...........................................................................................................................................113
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows.........................................................................................................................................114
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows................................................................................................................... 114
Detection and Auto conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays........................................................................................... 115
iSCSI Optimization: Operation......................................................................................................................................... 115
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information....................................................................................................................... 115
10 Isolated Networks for Aggregators..............................................................................117
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings....................................................................................................... 117
11 Link Aggregation..........................................................................................................118
Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................118
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator............................................................................................................118
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................119
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 119
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................. 119
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout................................................................................................................................119
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