Setup Guide

Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................420
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................421
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................421
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 421
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................422
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 423
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 424
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 424
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 425
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................426
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................426
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................426
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................427
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................427
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................428
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 429
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 429
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 429
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 430
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................431
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers.................................................................................................................................... 431
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................432
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 434
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................434
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 435
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 435
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................439
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................439
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 440
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................440
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................442
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 443
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 444
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 444
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................445
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................446
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................446
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 446
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................447
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................448
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 449
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.......................................................................................................... 450
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 451
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 451
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 452
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