Force10-MXL

2 Dell MXL switch configuration

These steps show you how to configure two Force10 MXL 10/40GbE blade switches with a LAG. The switches are interconnected using two of the 40 GbE Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) uplink ports, and the LAG is configured for Dynamic Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

2.1 Hardware configuration

1. Power on the Chassis.

2. Login to the Chassis CMC.

3. From the CMC CLI, connect to the Force10 MXL 10/40GbE blade switches.

2.2 Delete startup configuration

Note: The following commands will delete all configuration settings.

FTOS>enable

FTOS#delete startup-config

Proceed to delete startup-config [confirm yes/no]yes

FTOS#reload

System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]no

Proceed with reload [confirm yes/no]yes

Note: The switch will reboot.

2.3 Disable iSCSI optimization

FTOS#configure

FTOS(conf)#no iscsi enable

FTOS(conf)#

2.4 Disabling DCB configuration

FTOS>enable

FTOS#configure

FTOS(conf)#no dcb enable

FTOS(conf)#exit

FTOS#copy running-config startup-config

FTOS#reload

Note: The switch will reboot.

2.5 Configure out of band (OOB) management port

FTOS>enable

FTOS#configure

FTOS(conf)#interface ManagementEthernet 0/0

FTOS(conf-if-ma-0/0)#no shutdown

FTOS(conf-if-ma-0/0)#ip address ipaddress mask

FTOS(conf-if-ma-0/0)#exit

2.6 Configure route for OOB management port (optional)

Force10(conf)#management route X.Y.Z.0 /24 A.B.C.1

Note: X.Y.Z.0 is the network your management system is connecting from and A.B.C.1 is the gateway for the switch. If your management system is on the same subnet as the switch, the previous step may be omitted. The example above assumes a class C subnet mask.

2.7 Configure login credentials

FTOS(conf)#username admin privilege 15 password 0 P@ssw0rd

FTOS(conf)#enable password level 15 0 P@ssw0rd

FTOS(conf)#exit

2.8 Enable switch ports

Use the commands for Option 1 or Option 2 to enable the switch ports.

Option 1: You can enable ports individually by entering the port number.

FTOS#configure

FTOS(conf)#interface tengigabitethernet 0/1

FTOS(conf-if-te-0/1)#switchport

FTOS(conf-if-te-0/1)#no shutdown

FTOS(conf-if-te-0/1)#exit

FTOS(conf)#exit

Option 2: You can enable multiple ports at once using the ‘range’ parameter.

FTOS#configure

FTOS(conf)#interface range tengigabitethernet 0/1 – 32 , tengigabitethernet 0/41 - 56

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#switchport

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#no shutdown

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#exit

2.9 Enable Jumbo Frames

FTOS(conf)# interface range tengigabitethernet 0/1 – 32 , tengigabitethernet 0/41 - 56

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#mtu 12000

2.10 Enable flow control (optional)

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#flowcontrol rx on tx off

2.11 Configure Spanning tree on edge ports

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/1-32,te-0/41-56)#spanning-tree rstp edge-port

FTOS(conf-if-range-te-0/0-32,te-0/41-56)#

2.12 Configure port channel for LAG

These commands configure the switch interconnect as a LAG.

FTOS(conf)#interface Port-channel 1

FTOS(conf-if-po-1)#mtu 12000

FTOS(conf-if-po-1)#switchport

FTOS(conf-if-po-1)#no shutdown

FTOS(conf-if-po-1)#exit

2.13 Configure QSFP ports for LAG

These commands assigns 40Gb QSFP ports to the Port Channel.

FTOS(conf)#interface range fortyGigE 0/33 , fortyGigE 0/37

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37)#mtu 12000

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37)#no shutdown

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37)#flowcontrol rx on tx off

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37)#port-channel-protocol lacp

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37-lacp)#port-channel 1 mode active

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37-lacp)#exit

FTOS(conf-if-range-fo-0/33,fo-0/37)#exit

FTOS (conf)#exit

2.14 Save configuration

FTOS#copy running-config startup-config

2.15 Configure additional switch

Repeat the commands from section 2 to configure the second switch.