Switch Configuration; Force10 Mxl; Global Switch Settings; Array And Host Port Configuration - Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Manual

5 Switch configuration

Any of the currently available 10Gb Ethernet IO modules can be used as SAN switches within this
reference architecture. The following sections provide the detailed list of CLI commands used to
configure each switch model for use as a SAN switch to support the PS-M4110 Storage Blades as defined
in the reference architecture described in Section 4.

5.1 Force10 MXL

5.1.1

Global Switch settings:

FTOS>en
FTOS#
FTOS#conf
FTOS (conf) #no dcb enable
FTOS (conf) #no iscsi enable
Note: The above step is required even though iSCSI is enabled by default
FTOS (conf) #iscsi enable
FTOS (conf) #exit
FTOS# wr mem

5.1.2 Array and Host Port configuration:

FTOS (conf) #interface range tengigabitethernet 1/1 – 16
FTOS (conf-if-range-te-1/1-16) #switchport
FTOS (conf-if-range-te-1/1-16) #no shutdown
FTOS (conf-if-range-te-1/1-16) #exit
FTOS (conf) #exit
FTOS#wr mem
5.1.3

LACP configuration (Non-Stack configurations):

FTOS(conf)#interface range fortyGigE 1/33 - 37
% Warning: Non-existing ports (not configured) are ignored
by interface-range
FTOS (conf-if-range-fo-1/33-37) #mtu 9216