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Brocade VDX 6740
Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs
Dell Storage Engineering
November 2015
A Dell Deployment and Configuration Guide

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  • Page 1 Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs Dell Storage Engineering November 2015 A Dell Deployment and Configuration Guide...
  • Page 2: Revisions

    THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. © 2015 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Dell, the DELL logo, and the DELL badge are trademarks of Dell Inc. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    2.10 Save configuration ................................8 2.11 Configure additional switch ............................8 Performance tuning .................................. 9 Configuring VCS ID and Rbridge-ID (optional) ........................10 Additional resources ................................. 11 SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 4: Introduction

    <ip address> <mask> Separate variables Audience This switch configuration guide describes a verified configuration following Dell best practices for an SC Series iSCSI SAN and is intended for storage or network administrators and deployment personnel. Switch details Table 2 provides an overview of the switch configuration.
  • Page 5: Cabling Diagram

    Cabling diagram The cabling diagram shown below represents the Dell recommend method for deploying your servers and SC Series arrays. Figure 1 Cabling diagram SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 6: Dell Recommended Switch Configuration

    SSH sessions to be restarted. Are you sure you want to reboot the chassis [y/n]? y Note: The switch will reboot. SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 7: Configure Global Lldp Settings To Disable Dcb

    TenGigabitEthernet 1/0/1-48 sw0(conf-if-te-1/0/1-48)# switchport sw0(conf-if-te-1/0/1-48)# switchport mode access sw0(conf-if-te-1/0/1-48)# exit Enable link level flow control (802.3x) sw0(config)#interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/0/1-48 sw0(conf-if-te-1/0/1-48)# qos flowcontrol tx off rx on sw0(conf-if-te-1/0/1-48)# exit SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 8: Configure Spanning Tree On Edge Ports

    2.10 Save configuration switch#copy running-config startup-config 2.11 Configure additional switch Repeat the commands from sections 2.1 through 2.10 to configure the second switch. SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 9: Performance Tuning

    1 sw0(config-rbridge-id-1)# qos tx-queue limit 2000 sw0(config-rbridge-id-1)# qos rcv-queue limit 2000 sw0(config-rbridge-id-1)# exit sw0(config)# Note: Repeat the commands to configure the buffer on the second switch. SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 10: Configuring Vcs Id And Rbridge-Id (Optional)

    2 This operation will change the configuration to default and reboot the switch. Do you want to continue? [y/n]:y Note: The switch will reboot. SCG2013 | Brocade VDX 6740 Switch Configuration Guide for Dell SC Series SANs...
  • Page 11: A Additional Resources

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