Dell PowerConnect 8024 User manual

Dell PowerConnect
8024, 8024F, 8132, 8132F, 8164,
and 8164F Switch
User’s Configuration
Guide
Regulatory Models: PC8024, PC8024F,
PC8132, PC8132F, PC8164, PC8164F

Notes and Cautions
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your computer.
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instructions are not followed.
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Regulatory Models: PC8024, PC8024F, PC8132, PC8132F, PC8164, PC8164F
January 2013 Rev. A04

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Additional Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2 Switch Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
System Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Multiple Management Options . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Log Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Management of Basic Network Information . . . . 56
IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switch Database Management Templates. . . . . 57
Automatic Installation of Firmware and
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 58
Remote Monitoring (RMON) . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Stacking Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
High Port Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Automatic Firmware Update for New Stack
Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 60
Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 60
Hot Add/Delete and Firmware
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Configurable Access and Authentication
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Password-Protected Management Access . . . . 61
Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 61
TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
RADIUS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Port Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X) . . . . . . . . . 63
MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 63
Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
MAC-Based Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
IP Source Guard (IPSG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge). . . . . . . . 66
Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 66
Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 66
Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 66

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Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching. . . . . . . . 67
Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 69
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . 69
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for
Media Endpoint Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 69
Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)
Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Enhanced Transmission Selection . . . . . . . . . 70
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Initialization
Protocol Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Cisco Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 71
VLAN Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
MAC-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 72
GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Double VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard. . . . . . 75
BPDU Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP) . . . . . . 75
Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Table
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 77
BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
IP Helper and UDP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Routing Information Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 79
Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 79
IPv6 Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Differentiated Services (DiffServ) . . . . . . . . . 81
Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Auto Voice over IP (VoIP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Internet Small Computer System Interface
(iSCSI) Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
MAC Multicast Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . 84
Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 84
IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast—Dense
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Protocol Independent Multicast—Source
Specific Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 85
MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 85
3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series Front
Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8024 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8024F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 88
PowerConnect 8132 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 89
PowerConnect 8132F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 89
PowerConnect 8164 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 90
PowerConnect 8164F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 91
Hot-Pluggable Interface Modules . . . . . . . . . 92
USB Port (Power Connect 8100-series
switches only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Port and System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series Back
Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Out-of-Band Management Port. . . . . . . . . . . 96
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Ventilation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Module Bay LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Out-of-Band Ethernet Management Port LEDs. . . 99
System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Switch Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch
Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . 103
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Using the Device View Port Features. . . . . . . 108
5 Using the Command-Line Interface . . . . 109
Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . 109
Console Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Telnet Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using the Question Mark to Get Help . . . . . . . 113
Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 114
Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 115
Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 115
6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
7 Setting the IP Address and Other
Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 121
IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 121
What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 121
Why Is Basic Network Information Needed? . . . 122
How Is Basic Network Information
Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
What Is Out-of-Band Management and
In-Band Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . . 126
Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN IP
Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default
Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Domain Name Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 133
Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . 134
Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port . . . . 134
Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default
VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Configuring Static Network Information on
the OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Configuring Static Network Information on
the Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Configuring and Viewing Additional Network
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Basic Network Information Configuration
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
8 Managing QSFP Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Stacking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Creating a PowerConnect 8000/8100 Series
Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
How is the Stack Master Selected? . . . . . . . 146
Adding a Switch to the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Removing a Switch from the Stack . . . . . . . . 148
How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack?. . . 149
What is Stacking Standby? . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . 150
Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack
Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
NSF Network Design Considerations. . . . . . . 153
Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 154