Dell Force10 Mxl Blade White Paper Deploying The Into A Cisco Nexus Network Environment
2015-01-05
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Page Count: 57
- Introduction
- Dell Force10 MXL Deployment
- Initial Configuration
- Configure the MXL Host Name
- Configure an IP Address and Default Gateway on the MXL Out-of-Band Management Interface
- Add an Admin’s Username and Enable Password to the MXL configuration
- Enable the SSH service on the MXL
- Disable the Telnet Service on the MXL
- Determine if Spanning Tree is already enabled
- Enable Per-VLAN Spanning Tree on the MXL
- Split an MXL 40Gb Ethernet Interface into Four 10Gb Ethernet Links
- Save the Current MXL Configuration Settings
- Access Port Downlink Configuration
- Trunk Port Downlink Configuration
- Link Aggregation Group Configuration
- Trunk Port Uplink Configuration with MLAG at Top of Rack
- Establish the Nexus Top-of-Rack vPC Peer Relationship
- Configure the Nexus vPC Multi-chassis LAG
- Prepare the Nexus Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Instances
- Enable Per-VLAN Spanning Tree on the MXL
- Configure the MXL Uplink Port-Channel Links
- Configure Tagged VLANs for the Trunk Port Uplinks
- Enable the MXL Uplink Port-Channels
- Verify the MXL1’s Spanning-tree State
- Trunk Port Uplink Configuration with Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
- Initial Configuration
- Spanning Tree Protocol Failover and Failback Observations
- Lab Environment
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP Observations
- The process for configuring the MXL switch to run MSTP.
- Determine if Spanning Tree is already enabled
- Enable MSTP Spanning Tree on the MXL
- Verify that Spanning Tree is Running as Expected
- MSTP Test - Failover: Local Interface Failure Simulation
- Verify that Spanning Tree is running as expected after the Local Interface Failure Simulation
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP – Remainder of Test Observations
- Nexus MSTP and MXL MSTP – Greater than 64 Instances
- Nexus Rapid PVST+ and MXL PVST Observations
- The process for configuring the MXL switch to run MSTP:
- Determine if Spanning Tree is already enabled
- Enable PVST Spanning Tree on the MXL
- Verify that Spanning Tree is Running as Expected
- PVST Test - Failover: Local Interface Failure Simulation
- Verify that Spanning Tree is running as expected after the Local Interface Failure Simulation
- Nexus Rapid PVST+ and MXL PVST – Remainder of Test Observations
- Summary – Spanning Tree Observations
- Appendices