Users Guide
Conguring VLAN Membership..............................................................................................................................102
Displaying VLAN Membership.................................................................................................................................102
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN................................................................................................................. 103
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN...........................................................................................................103
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................ 104
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................105
Port Channel Denitions and Standards................................................................................................................105
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................106
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 106
1GbE and 10GbE Interfaces in Port Channels.......................................................................................................106
Uplink Port Channel: VLAN Membership.............................................................................................................. 107
Server-Facing Port Channel: VLAN Membership.................................................................................................107
Displaying Port Channel Information...................................................................................................................... 107
Interface Range.............................................................................................................................................................. 108
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 109
Monitor and Maintain Interfaces................................................................................................................................... 110
Maintenance Using TDR........................................................................................................................................... 111
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics.................................................................................................. 111
Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames.................................................................................................................111
Enabling Pause Frames...................................................................................................................................................112
MTU Size..........................................................................................................................................................................113
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................... 113
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 115
Setting Auto-Negotiation Options.......................................................................................................................... 116
Viewing Interface Information........................................................................................................................................118
Clearing Interface Counters..................................................................................................................................... 118
Enabling the Management Address TLV on All Interfaces of an Aggregator...........................................................119
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges.................................................................................................................... 119
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing.........................................................................................119
10 iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................120
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................120
iSCSI Optimization Overview........................................................................................................................................120
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................................................121
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................121
Detection and Auto conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays................................................................................... 122
iSCSI Optimization: Operation...................................................................................................................................... 122
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information.................................................................................................................. 123
11 Isolated Networks for Aggregators............................................................................................................ 125
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings................................................................................................125
12 Link Aggregation....................................................................................................................................... 126
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................126
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator..................................................................................................... 126
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................127
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................. 127
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