Table 3. Devices And Firmware Versions Used In This Document - Dell Force10 C150 Manual

Deploying the Dell Force10 MXL into a Cisco Nexus Network Environment
N5K2 is the primary root of VLANs 11 and 13's spanning tree instances and the secondary root of VLAN
12's. Its port-channel 10 uses Ethernet interfaces 1/17-20, port-channel 20 uses Ethernet interfaces
1/1-2, and its port-channel 40 uses Ethernet interfaces 1/25-26.
MXL1 has a single northbound LAG that connects to a multi-chassis LAG (a Nexus vPC) provided by N5K1
and N5K2 and that actively passes traffic for all VLANs on all participating LAG members. Its port-
channel 20 uses TenGigabitEthernet interfaces 0/33-36.
MXL2 has two northbound LAGs—one for N5K1 and one for N5K2. On MXL2, spanning tree blocks VLANs
11 and 13 on the connection to N5K1 and blocks VLAN 12 on the connection to N5K2. Its port-channel
30 uses TenGigabitEthernet interfaces 0/33-34 and port-channel 40 uses TenGigabitEthernet interfaces
0/35-36.
Documented Device Details
This document presents the deployment of two Force10 MXL switches attached to two top-of-rack
Nexus 5548UP switches. The firmware revisions used are detailed in Table 2 below.
Table 3.
Device Model
Dell Force10 MXL
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
On the following pages is located the running configurations of the switches in the completed example
network. The MXL1 and MXL2 configurations are listed side-by-side for ease of comparison between
their configuration differences. All of the configurations presented have had their username entries
removed.
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Devices and Firmware Versions Used in this Document
Firmware Version
8.3.16.1
5.2(1)N1(1)