Concept Guide

Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 418
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................419
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................419
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 419
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................420
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................421
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 422
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 422
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 423
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 424
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................424
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 424
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 425
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................425
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................426
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 427
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................427
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 427
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................428
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 429
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 429
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................430
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 432
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................432
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................433
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................433
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 437
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................437
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 438
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................438
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................440
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 441
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 442
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 442
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................443
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................444
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 444
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 444
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 445
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................446
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................447
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................448
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 449
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................449
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 450
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