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3 Dell EMC Networking S4148-ON and S4128-ON Switch Configuration Guide for Dell EMC SC Series SANs | SCG3704
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1Introduction...................................................................................................................................................................5
1.1 Document conventions.......................................................................................................................................5
1.2 Audience.............................................................................................................................................................5
1.3 Switch details......................................................................................................................................................5
1.4 Cabling diagram..................................................................................................................................................6
2Dell EMC recommended switch configuration .............................................................................................................7
2.1 Hardware configuration ......................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Check firmware version......................................................................................................................................7
2.2 Delete startup configuration................................................................................................................................7
2.3 Switch profiles (only for S4148-ON and its variants)..........................................................................................8
2.4 Configure unified ports on S4148U-ON..............................................................................................................8
2.5 Configure out of band (OOB) management port ................................................................................................8
2.6 Configure login credentials.................................................................................................................................9
2.7 Configure QSPF+ and QSFP28 ports to 4 x 10GbE breakout ports..................................................................9
2.8 Enable switch ports ............................................................................................................................................9
2.9 iSCSI enable.....................................................................................................................................................10
2.10 Enable Jumbo frames and flow control (optional) ............................................................................................10
2.11 Configure spanning tree on edge ports............................................................................................................10
2.12 Save configuration............................................................................................................................................10
2.13 Configure additional switch...............................................................................................................................11
3Configure Data Center Bridging (DCB) (optional)......................................................................................................12
3.1 Disable iSCSI....................................................................................................................................................12
3.2 Disable 802.3x flowcontrol on all ports.............................................................................................................12
3.3 Enable DCB......................................................................................................................................................12
3.4 Create tagged VLAN for all ports and port-channels........................................................................................12
3.5 Create QOS policy map with dot1p values as trusted......................................................................................13
3.6 Create PFC dot1p traffic class..........................................................................................................................13
3.7 Configure network QoS policy map..................................................................................................................13
3.8 Configure ETS policies.....................................................................................................................................14
3.9 Create ETS policy-map for bandwidth allocations............................................................................................14
3.10 QoS policy ........................................................................................................................................................14
3.11 Apply policies and VLAN ID to all switch edge ports........................................................................................15
3.12 iSCSI enable.....................................................................................................................................................15
3.13 Save configuration............................................................................................................................................15