Concept Guide

Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 431
Interfaces in Port Channels..................................................................................................................................... 431
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................432
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................432
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................432
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................434
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 435
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 435
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 436
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................436
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................437
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 437
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 438
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................438
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................438
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 440
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 440
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 440
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 440
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................441
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 442
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................442
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 444
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................444
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 445
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 445
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................446
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................447
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................447
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................448
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................450
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 451
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 452
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 452
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................453
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................454
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................454
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 454
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 456
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................456
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................457
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.......................................................................................................... 458
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 460
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 460
Discard Counters............................................................................................................................................................ 461
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