DELL MXL 10 User Manual

DELL

Stacking Dell Force10 MXL 10/40G Switches

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................. 3

Redundancy ........................................................................................................... 4

Failover roles ......................................................................................................... 4

Stacking LAG .......................................................................................................... 4

Enablement of LAG/LACP on blade servers ..................................................................... 4

Meta-data ............................................................................................................. 4

Restoring factory defaults .......................................................................................... 5

Constant stack configuration ...................................................................................... 5

Bare Metal Provisioning ............................................................................................. 6

Identifying physical units and ports in a stack .................................................................... 6

Port numbering ....................................................................................................... 7

Combining split 10GbE SFP+ ports into a single 40GbE QSFP+ port ......................................... 8

Master selection criteria .............................................................................................. 9

Manually selecting a Master during initial stack setup ........................................................ 9

Stacking scenarios .................................................................................................... 10

Creating the MXL stack ........................................................................................... 13

Adding new members to an existing stack .................................................................... 17

Updating firmware on a stack ................................................................................... 17

Un-stacking (removing member units) ......................................................................... 20

Renumbering stack units ......................................................................................... 21

Appendix A – Stacking scenarios ...................................................................................... 23

Appendix B – Port mapping ............................................................................................ 24

Appendix C - Network switch versions ............................................................................... 25

Figures

Dell Force10 MXL (10/40G Ethernet) ................................................................... 3

I/O module overview from the CMC .................................................................... 6

Port mapping for QSFP+ ports............................................................................ 7

QSFP+ two 40GbE port expansion for the MXL ...................................................... 10

Stacking multiple MXL switches in a single M1000e ................................................ 12

Stacking MXL switches across multiple M1000e chassis using two ports between members 12