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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
Figure 70: N_Port WWPN logged into fabric A with MXL as FSB
Figure 71: Dell S5000 acting as a NPIV Proxy Gateway and Dell IOA as FSB
The Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator requires no configuration in terms of setting up the
environment for FCoE. By default it is already preconfigured for FCoE transit. Also by default, all uplink
ports are lagged together via LACP in 'port-channel 128'. In figure 71 above, since we are using the
two included 40 GbE ports on each IOA up to the S5000s, ports' tengigabitethernet 0/33' –
'tengigabitethernet 0/40' are the ports that are being utilized to connect to the S5000 via 40 GbE
cable. In this case we use 40 GbE active fiber but 40GbE copper DACs could also have been used.
The IO Aggregator is meant to be used for ease of deployment. All interfaces are tagged on all VLANs
and untagged on the default VLAN. For this reason, since all DCB and FCoE configuration is also
applied by default, there is no configuration needed on the Dell IOA. If it is desired to change the VLAN
settings, the Chassis Management Controller (CMC) GUI can be employed.
It should be noted that the IOA has uplink failure detection by default, so if the upstream connectivity
is down, the IOA automatically disables the port connecting to the server – 'tengigabitethernet 0/9' in
this case. This is done for proper failover upon upstream connectivity failure. Because of all the
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