Dell PowerConnect M6220 User manual

Dell PowerConnect
M6220, M6348, M8024, and
M8024-k Switch
User’s Configuration
Guide
Regulatory Models: PCM6220, PCM6348,
PCM8024, and PCM8024-k

Notes and Cautions
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Regulatory Models: PCM6220, PCM6348, PCM8024, and PCM8024-k
January 2013 Rev. A05

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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
Simple Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Port Aggregator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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

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Stacking Features (PCM6220, PCM6348, and
PCM8024-k Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
High Port Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Automatic Firmware Update for New Stack
Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Stacking Compatibility with the PowerConnect
7000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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

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Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 66
Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 66
Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 66
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
Connectivity Fault Management
(IEEE 802.1ag) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 70
Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)
Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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

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Double VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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

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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
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 M6220, M6348, M8024, and M8024-k
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect M6220 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect M6348 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 89
PowerConnect M8024 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 90
PowerConnect M8024-k Front Panel . . . . . . . . 91

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Console (RS-232) Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Console Redirect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Out-of-Band Management Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Switch Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch
Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . 101
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using the Device View Port Features. . . . . . . 106
5 Using the Command-Line Interface . . . . 107
Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . 107
Console Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Telnet Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Using the Question Mark to Get Help. . . . . . . 111
Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . 112

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Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 112
Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 113
Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 113
Specifying Physical Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
7 Setting the IP Address and Other
Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 123
IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 123
What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 123
Why Is Basic Network Information Needed? . . . 124
How Is Basic Network Information
Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
What Is Out-of-Band Management and In-Band
Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . . 128
Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN
IP Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default
Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Domain Name Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . . 136
Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port. . . . . 136

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Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default
VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Configuring Static Network Information on the
OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Configuring Static Network Information on the
Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Configuring and Viewing Additional Network
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Basic Network Information Configuration
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
8 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Stacking Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Creating a PowerConnect M6220 Stack . . . . . 145
Creating a PowerConnect M6348 Stack . . . . . 146
Creating a PowerConnect M8024-k Stack . . . . 147
PowerConnect 7000 Series and M6348
Stacking Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
How is the Stack Master Selected? . . . . . . . 150
Adding a Switch to the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Removing a Switch from the Stack . . . . . . . . 152
How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack?. . . 152
What is Stacking Standby? . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . 153
Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack
Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
NSF Network Design Considerations. . . . . . . 156
Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Default Stacking Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Managing and Monitoring the Stack (Web) . . . . . . 158
Unit Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158