DELL N4000 Series User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Revisions

  2
• Introduction

  5
• Audience

  5
• Switch details

  5
• Cabling diagram

  6
• Dell recommended switch configuration

  7
• Hardware configuration

  7
• Delete startup configuration

  7
• Disable DCB

  9
• Configure out of band (OOB) management port

  9
• Http and Telnet authentication

  9
• Configure login credentials

  9
• Enable iSCSI optimization feature

  10
• Configure flow control (optional)

  10
• Configure Jumbo MTU for all ports

  10
• 2.10 Configure spanning tree portfast on edge ports

  11
• 2.11 Configure QSFP ports for LAG

  11
• 2.12 Save configuration

  11
• 2.13 Configure additional switch

  11
• Configure Data Center Bridging (DCB) (Optional)

  12
• Enable DCB

  12
• Create VLAN

  12
• Configure class of service, dot1p mapping, and traffic class

  12
• Configure Priority flow control on switch ports and port channel

  12
• Configure ETS values

  13
• Save configuration

  13
• Configure additional switches

  14
• Reverting from DCB to non-DCB configuration (Optional)

  15
• Disable DCB and the DCB policies

  15
• Revert to default VLAN ID on switch and arrays

  16
• Save configuration

  16
• Configure additional switch

  16
• Additional resources

  17