MXL PS-M4110 DCB questions

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• Configuration of MXL port for PS-M4110 storage array

  Dear all,

  I have to configure my Force10 MXL GbE 10/40 for PS-M4110 storage array. I have two PS-M4110 connected to ports 0/13 and 0/15. I have configured the following way.

  FTOS (conf) # don't activate any dcb

  FTOS (conf) # enable iscsi

   

  Configuring the ports 0/13 and 0/15 (ditto)

  OTF (conf-if-you-0/15) con #sho
  !
  interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/13
  no ip address
  MTU 12000
  hybrid portmode
  switchport
  FlowControl rx tx off
  spanning tree bpmh edge-port
  spanning tree rstp edge port
  spanning tree portfast 0
  spanning tree pvst edge-port
  Profile-compellent iSCSI
  no downtime

  I just need to know if these settings are correct. And what I have to configure iscsi target (3 260 860) ip address of the port-(A.B.C.D) as well? If Yes, then what IP should be given here? Group-IPaddress?

  I used this guide as a reference.

  http://Dell.to/1uxp4LW

  And it seems that you have everything in place. The guide recommends not to use iscsi optimization for large san deployments. You can browse the guide too, just to double check.

• VLANning questions about blades MXL

  Hello

  I have a new M100e with a SAN PS4110xs case, a few servers blade and two switches Force10 MXL (switches and SAN on fabric)

  I put it all in place and works fine, but using the default VLAN for all

  I want to connect the switches to a Juniper EX3300 via SFP ports + and send the subnet SAN out so that I can connect remotely to the IP address of the EqualLogic for VMM integration management

  However, every time I try to put SAN ports in a VLAN separate-, before even that I look into the chutes for the Juniper - I lose all connectivity on the San.

  I created a new VLAN (VLAN120), but as soon as I set the ports inside they cannot ping each other.

  int vlan120

  Tagged te0/1 (this is the port of SAN)

  Tagged te0/12 (it is a single server)

  Tagged te0/16 (that's the other server)

  as soon as I do that I lose all connectivity to the San and server cannot ping each other via the iSCSI network.

  I tried to use 'no label' instead of 'tag' with the same effect.

  The VLAN is active (non-stop)

  I am at a loss for what is the question.

  Any help gratefully received.

  Select this option.

  I understood the question - I got 2 trunk in the Juniper VLAN120 links - as soon as I disabled the second interface everything arises in life

  Now I need to try to find a way to implement a SHIFT between the two MXL in the stack and a Juniper ex3300 - I managed to get the connectivity that I need, but with only a single link - as it is a remote site I want redundancy :-)

• DCB - Force10 MXL and Equallogic PS6210 - worth it or not?

  Hello all

  I have a new 3-blade M620 virtualization environment, 2 x MXL Force10 switches and 2 x Equallogic PS6210 - there is the possibility of using DCB - is it useful to configure DCB, will I get the gains and better stability, or for a small environment should I just use the configuration standard iscsi?

  Ideas or alternative options gratefully received.

  Thank you

  Hello

  If the switches are dedicated for iSCSI use, then there is no advantage to the use of DCB.  DCB in itself does not have iSCSI faster.  I just made sure non-iSCSI traffic doesn't interfere by providing iSCSI with a higher priority.  All other traffic is going in a "lossy" class of service.

  Also, you will need DCB converged network adapters to use BCD on the hosts.  Most of the iSCSI software adapters do not support DCB.

  Kind regards

• Disable the DCB on PS-M4110

  How we disabled DCB interface g 10 for PS-4110?

  No, DCB is never required for any version of firmware EQL.   DCB is always optional.   If you run ESXi, then please make sure 6.0.6 members is upgraded to at least 6.0.7 as soon as POSSIBLE.  VMFS datastore corruption risk is possible with any version lower than 6.0.6-H2. FW

• Force10 MXL config question

  My MXL blades have been set up by Dell Technology Services and work fine, but I would like to make a few changes now and not being Setup is not a network engineer, I have a problem with the docs I could find on the config of Force 10.  Specifically, I want to do 3 things:

  (1) change the SSH root password

  (2) remove a port to a LAG (port channel) group

  (3) add a new VLAN to some ports in the switch, including the one I just removed the lag, but abandon the SHIFT since the new VLAN

  Can someone point me to a doc that explains how to do this kind of things?

  Also, is it possible to access the console somehow by SSH in the CMC?  I swear I've seen Dell Tech Services people who do somehow, but I don't know how they did it.  Maybe I misunderstood what they were doing.  It would be nice to not have the addresses of IP config exposed and control access through the permissions of CMC.

  Thank you.

  Hi amunter,

  You can SSH to the CMC racadm commands and use to set it up. You just need to use PuTTY or other terminal program and go to the CMC host name or IP address.

  You should be able to change the password in this way

  (Force10) > activate

  (Force10) #config

  (Force10) (Config) #username admin passwd un_mot_de_passe

  _Config_07_29_2014.PDF https://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/Knowledgebase/documentation/CLIConfig/FTOS/MXL_9.5 (0.1)

  You can remove a port of a port channel in the channel of the port and using the command config no channel-member interface

  Page 395

  You can assign a VLAN to a port with the command interface vlan id - vlan

  Page 910

• Then a Force10 MXL blade handle no FCoE traffic?

  Hello.  I inherit a M1000e with few blades of the Force10 MXL switch installed.  The chassis has no other 10GBASE-T switches.  Since I have no plans on using FCoE, a Force10 MXL can be used for standard Ethernet (non-FCoE) traffic?  Or do I have to buy another switch?

  Thank you.

  Absolutely, to see the second page of the data sheet. It contains additional information about the available modules, how internal traffic is manipulated and external.

  http://Dell.to/1Q5fUo9

  The manuals are a great place to start. There is that a starter guide to help set up initial, and then a CLI and user guide to help configure additional features.

  http://Dell.to/1IIq8r2

  Let us know if you have any other questions.

• Help PLEASE mxl 10/40gbe and N4032

  I can't not seriously STP working between these two for the life of me, any help would be appreciated.

  All will connect and be good for a while, but then I miss ping of 10-20 for a reason any. I have yet to find something to work from in the newspapers / debugs. So if there are any suggestions for newspapers / debugs I need turn on please let me know.

  I tried General ports vs trunk ports, circuits and not trunking VLAN specific, even using RSTP instead of pvst but I always get the same questions.

  Here's the relevant configs each switch

  N4032

  interface vlan 2 15
  IP 10.22.15.250 255.255.255.0

  spanning tree priority 28672
  spanning tree mode rapid pvst
  VLAN spanning tree priority 1 36864
  VLAN spanning tree 15 priority 36864
  VLAN spanning tree 16 priority 36864

  interface Te1/0/17
  switchport mode trunk
  pvid switchport General 15
  switchport general allowed vlan add 15.16 tag
  switchport general allowed vlan add 1 tag
  output

  interface Te2/0/17
  switchport mode trunk
  pvid switchport General 15
  switchport general allowed vlan add 15.16 tag
  switchport general allowed vlan add 1 tag
  output

  MXL 10/40gbE

  pvst spanning tree Protocol
  No deactivation
  VLAN 1-16-bridge priority 61440

  interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/51
  no ip address
  hybrid portmode
  switchport
  no cause spanning tree pvst err - say not valid-pvst-bpdu
  no downtime
  !
  interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/52
  no ip address
  hybrid portmode
  switchport
  no cause spanning tree pvst err - say not valid-pvst-bpdu
  no downtime

  interface Vlan 15
  IP address 10.22.15.122/24
  Tagged TenGigabitEthernet 0/1-5, 51-52
  no downtime
  !
  interface Vlan 16
  no ip address
  Tagged TenGigabitEthernet 0/1-5, 51-52
  no downtime

  Help, please!

  Yes the packets can be lost during covering the election of the tree. If the status of the auxiliary port is bouncing between two ports, packages to send can be lost. If you want to try to leave it this way and still have 1 port throw, you can try to change the port on the ports 1 priority so that it is more likely to be the port to be scrapped.

  The following example configures a port to be less likely to be selected for transfer to the root bridge, even if the host starts sending of BPDUS.

  Console (config-if-article gi1/0/17) #spanning tree port-priority 240

  Console (config-if-article gi1/0/17) #spanning tree vlan 15 port-priority 240

• Config port / VLAN on switch MXL

  I'm not a network engineer, but I try to set a port to my MXL switch to a VLAN that will route traffic on virtual machines on a local network of calculation.

  This is the port Te 0/52 on the back of the MXL and I am running ESXi on servers in my m1000e.  In fact, I have two MXLs in the tissue A of the m1000e configured with VLT via the interfaces of the FourtyGig.  This part has been implemented by people of Dell Tech Services, making the installation.

  Here's what looked like the config to start:

  dsa1 #show vlan

  Codes: *-Default VLAN - VLAN, GVRP, R - G remote control Port Mirroring VLAN, P - primary, C - community, I - isolated
  O Openflow
  Q: U - no identified, the T - tag
  x - unidentified Dot1x, X - Dot1x tag
  o - unidentified OpenFlow, O - OpenFlow tag
  G - GVRP tag, M - Vlan-stack, H - VSN tagged
  i unidentified intern, I - labeled internal, untagged, V v - VLT - VLT tag

  Ports Status Description Q NUM
  * 1 U active Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  U Po41 (Te 0/41-44)
  Te U 0/1-32
  115 active Mgmt T Po41(Te 0/41-44)
  V Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  Te T 0/1-32
  486 active VMGuest T Po41(Te 0/41-44)
  V Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  Te T 0/1-32
  Te U 0/49-50

  And I wanted to add VLAN 1000 to calculate, so I did the following:

  dsa1 #conf

  dsa1 (conf) #interface Te 0/52
  dsa1 (conf-if-you-0/52) #show config
  !
  interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/52
  no ip address
  MTU 12000
  hybrid portmode
  switchport
  FlowControl rx tx off
  spanning tree rstp edge port bpduguard stop-on-violation
  no downtime

  dsa1 vlan (conf) #interface 1000
  dsa1 (conf-if-vl-1000) #show config
  !
  interface Vlan 1000
  Description information
  name computer
  no ip address
  Tagged TenGigabitEthernet 0/1-32
  Unmarked TenGigabitEthernet 0/52
  no downtime

  VLAN now looks like:

  dsa1 #show vlan

  Codes: *-Default VLAN - VLAN, GVRP, R - G remote control Port Mirroring VLAN, P - primary, C - community, I - isolated
  O Openflow
  Q: U - no identified, the T - tag
  x - unidentified Dot1x, X - Dot1x tag
  o - unidentified OpenFlow, O - OpenFlow tag
  G - GVRP tag, M - Vlan-stack, H - VSN tagged
  i unidentified intern, I - labeled internal, untagged, V v - VLT - VLT tag

  Ports Status Description Q NUM
  * 1 U active Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  U Po41 (Te 0/41-44)
  Te U 0/1-32
  115 active Mgmt T Po41(Te 0/41-44)
  V Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  Te T 0/1-32
  486 active VMGuest T Po41(Te 0/41-44)
  V Po33 (0/33.37 Fo)
  Te T 0/1-32
  Te U 0/49-50
  1000 active Compute T Te 0/1-32
  Te U 0/52

  But I wanted to add THAT VLT Po33 tag to the new VLAN because there is in others, not because I really understand what it does.  In my view, it is used for load balancing?  If I label it with the command 'tag Po33' in the config of vlan, out with the status "T" instead of "V".

  Here are the details of the VLT:

  dsa1 #show vlt detail
  Local LAG Id counterpart LAG Id status Local Peer status Active VLAN
  ------------  -----------  ------------  -----------  -------------
  41 41 UP UP 1, 115, 486
  dsa1 #show brief vlt
  VLT area in brief
  ------------------
  Domain ID: 100
  Role: secondary
  Primary role: 4096
  ICL Link Status: to the top
  Status of heart rate: upward
  VLT Peer status: to the top
  The local unit ID: 0
  Version: 6 (4)
  Local system MAC address: f8:b1:56:09:70:b1
  MAC address of the remote system: f8:b1:56:09:70:fd
  Configured the system MAC address: 00:01:00:01:00:01
  Version of the remote system: 6 (4)
  Restore delay timer: 90 seconds
  Delay-restore Abort threshold: 60 seconds
  Routing peer: disabled
  By the peer-routing-Timeout timer: 0 seconds
  Multicast peer-routing timeout: 150 seconds

  So my questions are, I'm on the right track?  It will do what I want it to do is send traffic on port 0/52 Te which is labeled in ESXi with 1000 VLAN?  Should I worry the VLT marking stuff and if yes, how should I do the VLT marking rather than normal marking?

  The connection only 1 port of MXL 1 to a device, this device is considered a switch/host an orphan. A VLT connection will have 1 port each MXL placed in a port channel and connected to a device.

  Here is a good article that covers the VLT in use with different Topologies.

  http://Dell.to/1wfDl3n

  And the User Guide is a good source to have as well.

  http://Dell.to/1Hy70bb

• Config DCB

  Hello

  I have install a pair of MXLs and hoped that someone could check on the attached config. Specifically the DCB article where I have not done this before.

  I have attached the config of one of the MXLs.

  • A PS4110x is connected to Te0/41 on the two MXLs and has been configured to use DCB on vlan 3000. There is no error on the EQL DCB
  • VLT connects to the MXLs (po100, fo0/33, fo0/37)
  • A hyperV blade is configured on Te0/20 (am still to set up other HyperV blades)

  One issue I've had is that vlan 3000 (vlan DCB/iSCSI) must be applied to all ports? The paper I read here suggests it should, but I don't really understand why.

  Thanks for the tips!

  Huw-

  That is right.

• impact of connectivity of disabling DCB on N4064f

  Hello. We use N4064f as ToR switches. We have connected additional without EQL to the network and the new EQLs are complaining of DCB misconfiguration on the switches. We don't use of DCB, as well as literature, I read, you must disable DCB on switches.

  I found the commands to do this in the configuration of switch guide (why can't do you it from the GUI?), my question is if this will have an impact on connectivity.

  Both N4064f switches are not stacked, but connected using the QSFP ports ISL (static gal). RSTP is also configured.

  Our network guys said there could be up to 2 minute break, which is not true, I hope.

  Someone who can confirm?

  If we do not disable DCB on switches, there should be no effect on the functionality of EQLs, right? (with the exception of the warning in the Group Manager)

  We did a quick laboratory test and doesn't see any loss of network DCB to disable. If you do not see it yet, this is a good document.

  http://bit.LY/1wY39o2

  See you soon

• MXL 40/10

  Hi all

  We will update the firmware of our switches and my question is anyone can share the link to download the latest FW 9.6.0.0.

  Thanks a lot for your help

  Hello

  You must save your MXL blade switch and get the newspaper account the website below.

  www.force10networks.com

  You can download the firmware if your products have always guaranteed.

  Rgds,

• MXL (a definitive guide)

  Hello everyone.

  I would firstly like to say that I am quite new to the world of MXL, so possible that going to some of these questions may seem kinda stupid.

  Currently we have 4 MXL switches configured in a topology ring in our company, unfortunately the original installation documentation is incomplete and I were tasked to redefine this documentation and planning an update of the firmware in the near future.

  My question is:

  Is it possible in the CLI to identify which switch is in what physical location in the chassis of the M1000 PE?

  These switches are in a pile, can I find out what is the IP address of each individual switch management? and access to turn these units?

  Ive checked a lot of the configuration of the guide, but can not find answers to these two questions.

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  I'm not aware of an order of the switch that will show you which slot it is installed in. However, if you look through the CMC M1000e, you should be able to look at the State of health of module. Health status should show some information about each slot on the chassis and what is installed in it.

  While stacked switches behave as a single unit. So there will be an IP address that is assigned to the main unit. Other switches will not have assigned IP addresses.

  Here are some good resources on the M1000e chassis.

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../4473.CMC-Video-Demos.aspx

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../4481.CMC-White-Papers.aspx

  www.force10networks.com/.../documentation.aspx

• File MXL

  Hi gurus,
  I have a MAXL (extension script1.mxl) file I need to run. In order to run it, that's what I did: I got ESSMSH on the COMMAND LINE to enter MAXL, then I open the script1.mxl file in Notepad, copied all the content and pasted on the COMMAND PROMPT and it ran. He ran, however, he gave the syntax error because when I pasted from Notepad, he missed both first letter of each line (for example, IMPORT became the PORT, that's why he did the syntax error)
  Another thing I tried was: entered "ESSMSH script1.mxl" on the command line, and it did not work as well. If I have questions for gurus about what would be the right way of running .mxl files? If there is a way to run it from the command prompt I'd love to know the right steps. OR is there a way to do this via the SEND TO folder.
  OR how to use the ESSMSH. EXE file to run the command.
  I use 11.1.2 so all suggestions/help would be appreciated.
  Thank you

  You use startMaxl.cmd or startMaxl.bat and not essmsh

  for example path\startMaxl.cmd maxlscript.mxl

  See you soon

  John
  http://John-Goodwin.blogspot.com/

• TabDelimit in the script of mxl

  Hello
  
  I have a script with the following command {TabDelimit} mxl.
  I would like to know if there is another command that allows you to use a different separator, like: ',' or ';'
  
  Thank you.

  The command you mention isn't reports MaxL scripts (even if you could have a script of report of MaxL. But to answer your question, no there is no other option to change the delimiter. There was a recent thread where it was suggested to do after the fact with a Perl or other script.