Product Description - Dell Networking S5000 Getting Started Manual

Getting Started Guide
This document is intended as a Getting Started Guide to get new systems up and running
and ready for configuration. For complete installation and configuration information,
refer to the documents listed below:
Table 1. S5000 Documents
Information
Hardware installation and power-up
instructions
Software configuration
Command line interface
Latest updates
Introduction
This document provides basic information about the S5000 switch, including how to
install the switch and perform the initial configuration.
For information about how to configure and monitor switch features, refer to the
Configuration Guide for the S5000 Switch , which is available on the Dell Support website
at http://www.dell.com/support/manuals .

Product Description

The S5000 is part of Dell Networking's S-Series switches for Data Center Top of Rack
(ToR) switches.
The S5000 is purpose-built to provide architectural flexibility for unified and virtualized
environments. It is a 10G ToR solution that enables converged local area networks (LAN)
and storage area networks (SAN) in the same box. The S5000 delivers Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) and Fibre Channel (FC) capability in a one rack unit (RU) ToR switch form
factor.
The S5000 supports Data Center Bridging (ETS/PFC/DCBX), FCoE Transit (FIP Snooping),
NPIV Proxy Gateway (NPG), and Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI)
storage traffic. The S5000 also provides aggregation and convergence functionality using
pluggable modules for flexible configuration.
Documentation
Installing the S5000 Switch
FTOS Configuration Guide for the S5000
Switch
FTOS Command Line Reference Guide for
the S5000 Switch
FTOS Release Notes for the S5000 Switch
FTOS
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