Dell PowerConnect 5424 User Manual

January 2009 Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide A guide to building an iSCSI based SAN solution with Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Arrays

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 6 switches must be connected together via stacking connections or uplinking ports that are aggregated to

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 7 Host to Switch Infrastructure Host computers should be configured with one or more network interface c

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 8 the iSCSI software initiator enabled and have either the Dell EqualLogic MPIO driver (located in the H

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 9 Figure 7: Single Controller Array to Switch Configuration When multiple NICs or HBAs are configured

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 10 Figure 8: Example: 3 Switch Stack In general, follow the instructions provided by the switch vendor

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 11 Figure 9: Example: 4-port Aggregated Uplink Putting It All Together Based on the previous discussi

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 12 Fully Redundant SAN The only design that addresses all of the possible failure modes for an iSCSI SAN

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 13 Partially Redundant SAN Configurations Though each of the SAN designs below will allow each host to a

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 14 Figure 13: Dual Switch/Dual NIC Dual Array Controllers Configurations Figure 14: Single Switch

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 15 Figure 15: Dual Switch/Single NIC Figure 16: Single Switch/Dual NIC ServerNIC 0NIC 1Corporate L

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page i THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATI/ONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL E

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 16 Appendix A: General Requirements for Switches When Used with EqualLogic PS Series Arrays For a swit

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 17 For SAN infrastructures consisting of more than 2 non-stacking switches, R-STP must be enabled on all

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 18 Appendix B: PowerConnect 54xx Configuration The PowerConnect 54xx Family of switches must be placed

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 19 Disabling iSCSI Optimization Setting The PowerConnect 54xx family of switches has a global feature ca

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 20 console# copy running-config startup-config console# exit Configuring Flow Control Flow control on th

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 21 console(config-if)# exit console(config)# exit console# copy running-config startup-config console#

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 22 Appendix C: PowerConnecct 62xx Configuration The PowerConnect 62xx Family of switches must be placed

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 23  Interface ID — is formed by the interface type followed by the interface number. There is currentl

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 24 console(config)# flowcontrol console(config)# exit console# copy running-config startup-config consol

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 25 Configuring Jumbo Frames Jumbo frames are not enabled by default. To enable jumbo frames on the Pow

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Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 26 Appendix D: Cisco IOS Based Switch Configuration Cisco IOS based switches must be placed in “privile

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 27 For switches that have Cisco TwinGig Converter Modules in 10-Gigabit Ethernet module slots, the inter

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 28 Switch# show spanning-tree interface gigabitethernet0/1 Note: Use the spanning-tree portfast default

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 29 Switch(config)# exit Switch# copy running-config startup-config To view or confirm Flow Control statu

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 30 Configuring Jumbo Frames On Cisco Catalyst switches, MTU size cannot be set for an individual interfa

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 31 The commands shown next are used to enable an individual VLAN to use Jumbo Frames. Note that VLAN1 ca

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page iii Enabling the PortFast Option to Configure STP Edge Ports ... 19

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 1 Introduction The Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide is provided as an aid to help storage administr

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 2 In addition to the requirements and recommendations described in the following tables, all the usual r

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 3 Recommendation Description Redundant network Paths Using a multi-pathing solution helps to ensure that

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 4 Infrastructure Configuration Dell recommends that all EqualLogic SAN solutions be configured for full

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Configuration Guide Page 5 Figure 1: Single Controller Array to Single Switch Configuration Single Switch/Dual Array Controller