Dell X1000 Series User manual

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DELL CONFIDENTIAL – PRELIMINARY 8/9/16 – FOR PROOF ONLY
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Dell™ Networking™ X1000
and X4000 Series Switches
User Guide

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August 2016 P/N Rev. A06

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
MAC Address Capacity Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
VLAN Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Device Management Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Device Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Device Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Managed Mode Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Reset Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
LED Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4 Using the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Saving Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Information Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Common GUI Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5 Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Switch Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Recent Logged Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Active Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Ports and VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuration Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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6 Switch Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
IP Addressing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
IPv4 Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
IPv6 Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
File Update and Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Domain Name System (DNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Management Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
7 Logs and Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Login History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Remote Log Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
8 Statistics and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 129
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140