Concept Guide

Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 413
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................414
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................414
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 414
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 415
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................416
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 417
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 417
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................418
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................419
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 419
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................419
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 420
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................420
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 421
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 422
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 422
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 422
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................423
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 424
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 424
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................425
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................427
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 427
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................428
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................428
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................432
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................432
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................433
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................433
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................435
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 436
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.........................................................................................................437
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 437
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................438
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................439
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................439
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 439
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 440
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................441
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 442
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................443
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 444
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................444
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 445
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