IBM RackSwitch G8264T User manual

IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264T
Installation Guide

IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264T
Installation Guide

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the general information in the Safety information and
Environmental Notices and User Guide documents on the IBM Documentation CD and the Warranty Information document that
comes with the product.
First Edition (May 2012)
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US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract
with IBM Corp.

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Safety
Before installing this product, read the Safety Information.
Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações de Segurança.
Prije instalacije ovog produkta obavezno pročitajte Surgonosne Upute
Před instalací tohoto produktu si přečtěte příručku bezpečnostních instrukcí.
Læs sikkerhedsforskrifterne, før du installerer dette produkt.
Lees voordat u dit product installeert eerst de veiligheidsvoorschriften.
Ennen kuin asennat tämän tuotteen, lue turvaohjeet kohdasta Safety Information.
Avant d'installer ce produit, lisez les consignes de sécurité.
Vor der Installation dieses Produkts die Sicherheitshinweise lesen.’
Πριν εγκαταστήσετε το προϊόν αυτό, διαβάστε τις Πληροφορίες ασφαλείας (safety
information).
A termék telepítés előtt olvassa el a Biztonsági előírásokat!
Prima di installare questo prodotto, leggere le Informazioni sulla Sicurezza.
Перед установкой продукта прочтитe инcтрyкции по тexникe безопасности.
Pred inštaláciou tohto zariadenia si prečítajte Bezpečnostné predpisy.
Pred namestitvijo tega proizvoda preberite Varnostne informacije.
Antes de instalar este producto, lea la información de seguridad.
Läs säkerhetsinformationen innan du installerar den här produkten.
在安装本产品之前，请仔细阅读 Safety Information
(安全信息)。

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Important
Each caution and danger statement in this document is labeled with a
number. This number is used to cross reference an English-language
caution or danger statement with translated versions of the caution or
danger statement in the Systems Safety Notices document.
For example, if a caution statement is labeled “D005,” translations for that
caution statement are in the Systems Safety Notices document under
“D005.”
Be sure to read all caution and danger statements in this document before
you perform the procedures. Read any additional safety information that
comes with the switch or optional device before you install the device.
(L001)
DANGER
Hazardous voltage, current, or energy levels are present inside any
component that has this label attached. Do not open any cover or barrier
that contains this label.

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DANGER
(L003)
Multiple power cords. The product might be equipped with multiple power
cords. To remove all hazardous voltages, disconnect all power cords.
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DANGER
When working in or around the system, observe the following precautions:
Electrical voltage and current from power, telephone, and communication
cables are hazardous. To avoid a shock hazard:
• Connect power to this unit only with the IBM provided power cord. Do not
use the IBM provided power cord for any other product.
• Do not open or service any power supply assembly.
• Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation,
maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical
storm.
• The product might be equipped with multiple power cords. To remove all
hazardous voltages, disconnect all power cords.
• Connect all power cords to a properly wired and grounded electrical
outlet. Ensure that the outlet supplies proper voltage and phase rotation
according to the system rating plate.
• Connect any equipment that will be attached to this product to properly
wired outlets.
• When possible, use one hand only to connect or disconnect signal
cables.
• Never turn on any equipment when there is evidence of fire, water, or
structural damage.
• Disconnect the attached power cords, telecommunications systems,
networks, and modems before you open the device covers, unless
instructed otherwise in the installation and configuration procedures.
• Connect and disconnect cables as described in the following procedures
when installing, moving, or opening covers on this product or attached
devices.
To disconnect:
a. Turn off everything (unless instructed otherwise).
b. Remove the power cords from the outlets.
c. Remove the signal cables from the connectors.
d. Remove all cables from the devices.
To connect:
a. Turn off everything (unless instructed otherwise).
b. Attach all cables to the devices.
c. Attach the signal cables to the connectors.
d. Attach the power cords to the outlets.
e. Turn on the devices.
• Sharp edges, corners and joints may be present in and around the
system. Use care when handling equipment to avoid cuts, scrapes and
pinching.
(D005)

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CAUTION:
This product might contain one or more of the following devices: CD-ROM
drive, DVD-ROM drive, DVD-RAM drive, or laser module, which are Class 1
laser products. Note the following information:
• Do not remove the covers. Removing the covers of the laser product could
result in exposure to hazardous laser radiation. There are no serviceable
parts inside the device.
• Use of the controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than
those specified herein might result in hazardous radiation exposure.
(C026)
CAUTION:
This product contains a Class 1M laser. Do not view directly with optical
instruments. (C028)

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CAUTION:
• Do not install a unit in a rack where the internal rack ambient temperatures
will exceed the manufacturer’s recommended ambient temperature for all
your rack-mounted devices.
• Do not install a unit in a rack where the air flow is compromised. Ensure that
air flow is not blocked or reduced on any side, front, or back of a unit used
for air flow through the unit.
• Consideration should be given to the connection of the equipment to the
supply circuit so that overloading of the circuits does not compromise the
supply wiring or overcurrent protection. To provide the correct power
connection to a rack, refer to the rating labels located on the equipment in
the rack to determine the total power requirement of the supply circuit.
DANGER
Observe the following precautions when working on or around your IT rack
system:
• Heavy equipment—personal injury or equipment damage might result if
mishandled.
• Always lower the leveling pads on the rack cabinet.
• Always install stabilizer brackets on the rack cabinet.
• To avoid hazardous conditions due to uneven mechanical loading, always
install the heaviest devices in the bottom of the rack cabinet. Always
install servers and optional devices starting from the bottom of the rack
cabinet.
• Back-mounted devices are not to be used as shelves or work spaces. Do
not place objects on top of rack-mounted devices.
• Each rack cabinet might have more than one power cord. Be sure to
disconnect all power cords in the rack cabinet when directed to
disconnect power during servicing.
• Connect all devices installed in a rack cabinet to power devices installed
in the same rack cabinet. Do not plug a power cord from a device installed
in one rack cabinet into a power device installed in a different rack
cabinet.
• An electrical outlet that is not correctly wired could place hazardous
voltage on the metal parts of the system or the devices that attach to the
system. It is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that the outlet is
correctly wired and grounded to prevent an electrical shock.
(R001 part 1 of 2)

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• (For sliding drawers) Do not pull out or install any drawer or feature if the
rack stabilizer brackets are not attached to the rack. Do not pull out more
than one drawer at a time. The rack might become unstable if you pull out
more than one drawer at a time.
• (For fixed drawers) This drawer is a fixed drawer and must not be moved for
servicing unless specified by the manufacturer. Attempting to move the
drawer partially or completely out of the rack might cause the rack to
become unstable or cause the drawer to fall out of the rack.
(R001 part 2 of 2)
Important:
This product is also designed for IT power distribution systems with phase-to-phase
voltage of 230V.
Important:
Machinenlärminformations-Verordnung - 3. GPSGV, der höchste Shalldruckpegel
beträgt 70 dB(A) oder weniger.

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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
RackSwitch G8264T features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Management features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Software features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Switch components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Switch unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Switch ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Technical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Power specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. Installing the RackSwitch G8264T . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Required tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Preventing electric shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing the RackSwitch G8264T in a standard equipment rack . . . . . . 20
Installing the RackSwitch G8264T in an IBM iDataPlex rack . . . . . . . . 22
Installing the RackSwitch G8264T in an IBM System x rack . . . . . . . . 25
Initializing the RackSwitch G8264T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Default configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring an IP interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the Boot Management menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing QSFP+ transceivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing or replacing a power supply module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Removing an AC power supply module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing an AC power supply module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Installing or replacing a fan module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Removing a fan module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing a fan module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
System LEDs is not lit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Port link LED is not lit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Temperature sensor warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Switch does not initialize (boot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 3. Replaceable switch parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance. . . . . . . . . . 39
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Getting help and information on the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 39
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Telecommunication regulatory statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Particulate contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Documentation format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statement . . . . . . . 44
Industry Canada Class A emission compliance statement . . . . . . . 44
Avis de conformité à la réglementation d'Industrie Canada . . . . . . 44
Australia and New Zealand Class A statement . . . . . . . . . . . 44
European Union EMC Directive conformance statement . . . . . . . 45
Germany Class A statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Japan VCCI Class A statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA)
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Korea Communications Commission (KCC) statement . . . . . . . . 47
Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement . . . . . 47
People’s Republic of China Class A electronic emission statement . . . 47
Taiwan Class A compliance statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Chapter 1. Introduction
This Installation Guide provides information and instructions for installing the
IBM
®
System Networking RackSwitch
™
G8264T, Machine Type 7309.
For information about configuration and management of the switch, refer to your
Command Reference and the product release notes.
The RackSwitch G8264T is a rackable aggregation switch with unmatched line-rate
Layer 2/3 performance. The G8264T uses a wire-speed, non-blocking switching
fabric that provides simultaneous wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low
latency on all ports.
The G8264T contains forty-eight 10GBASE-T ports and four 40GbE QSFP+ ports.
The 10GBASE-T ports can be populated with category 6 or category 6A cables.
The QSFP+ ports can be populated with optical QSFP+ transceivers or DACs.
Note: For 1000BASE-T operation, category 5e cables are supported.
This 1U switch is rack mountable in either the horizontal or vertical direction,
depending on your application.
If firmware and documentation updates are available, you can download them from
the IBM website. The switch might have features that are not described in the
documentation that comes with the switch, and the documentation might be updated
occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates might
be available to provide additional information that is not included in the switch
documentation.
To check for firmware and documentation updates, go to
http://www.ibm.com/supportportal/. For firmware updates, click
Downloads . For
documentation updates, click
Documentation .
Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM website. Procedures for locating
firmware and documentation might vary slightly from what is described in
this document.

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The IBM Documentation CD
The IBM Documentation CD contains documentation for your switch in Portable
Document Format (PDF) and includes the IBM Documentation Browser to help you
find information quickly.
Hardware and software requirements
The IBM Documentation CD requires the following minimum hardware and
software:
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3 or later), Windows 2000, or Red
Hat® Linux.
• 100 MHz microprocessor.
• 32 MB of RAM.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or later) or xpdf, which comes with Linux operating
systems. Acrobat Reader software is included on the CD, and you can install it
when you run the Documentation Browser.
Using the Documentation Browser
Use the Documentation Browser to browse the contents of the CD, read brief
descriptions of the documents, and view documents, using Adobe Acrobat Reader
or xpdf. The Documentation Browser automatically detects the regional settings in
use in your computer and displays the documents in the language for that region (if
available). If a document is not available in the language for that region, the
English-language version is displayed.
Use one of the following procedures to start the Documentation Browser:
• If Autostart is enabled, insert the CD into the CD drive. The Documentation
Browser starts automatically.
• If Autostart is disabled or is not enabled for all users, use one of the following
procedures:
– If you are using a Windows operating system, insert the CD into the CD drive
and click Start --> Run. In the Open field, type
e:\win32.bat
where e is the drive letter of the CD drive, and click OK.
– If you are using Red Hat Linux, insert the CD into the CD drive; then, run the
following command from the /mnt/cdrom directory:
sh runlinux.sh
Select switch drive from the Product menu. The Available Topics list displays all
the documents for your drive. Some documents might be in folders. A plus sign (+)
indicates each folder or document that has additional documents under it. Click the
plus sign to display the additional documents.
When you select a document, a description of the document is displayed under
Topic Description . To select more than one document, press and hold the Ctrl key
while you select the documents. Click
View Book to view the selected document or
documents in Acrobat Reader or xpdf. If you selected more than one document, all
the selected documents are opened in Acrobat Reader or xpdf.

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To search all the documents, type a word or word string in the Search field and click
Search . The documents in which the word or word string is displayed are listed in
order of the most occurrences. Click a document to view it, and press Ctrl+F to use
the Acrobat search function, or press Alt+F to use the xpdf search function within
the document.
Click
Help for detailed information about using the Documentation Browser.
Related documentation
For documentation about configuring your switch, see the RackSwitch G8264T
Application Guide and Command Reference.
For details about the switch information, statistics, and configuration parameters,
see the RackSwitch G8264T Command Reference.
Notices and statements in this document
The caution and danger statements in this document are also in the multilingual
Safety Information document, which is on the IBM® Documentation CD. Each
statement is numbered for reference to the corresponding statement in the Safety
Information document.
The following notices and statements are used in this document:
• Note : These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.
• Important : These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoid
inconvenient or problem situations.
• Attention : These notices indicate potential damage to programs, devices, or data.
An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which
damage could occur.
• Caution : These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous
to you. A caution statement is placed just before the description of a potentially
hazardous procedure step or situation.
• Danger : These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or
extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the
description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or
situation.

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RackSwitch G8264T features
This section provides an overview of RackSwitch G8264T features.
Performance
• 1280 Gbps throughput (full duplex), non-blocking switching architecture
• 100% line rate at all packet sizes
Management features
• Clients
– Industry standard command-line interface (ISCLI)
– Browser-based Interface (BBI)
– BladeHarmony Manager
•
Protocols
– SNMP v1, v2, v3
– Remote Monitoring (RMON)
– Network Time Protocol (NTP) support
– DHCP
•
Software upgrades
– Dual software images
– Upgrade via serial, browser, or TFTP
Software features
• Security
– Secure interface login & password
– RADIUS and TACACS+
– SSH v1, v2
– HTTPS Secure Browser-based interface
– Wire-speed filtering with Access Control Lists (ACLs)
•
Layer 2
– 2048 VLANs (802.1Q), including Private VLANs
– Multi-link trunking, compatible with Cisco EtherChannel
– LACP (IEEE 802.3ad)
– Spanning Tree (802.1D), Multiple Spanning Tree (802.1s),
Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1w), with Fast Uplink Convergence
– 128 K forwarding database entries

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• Layer 3
– Dynamic routing
• RIP v1, v2
• OSPF
•BGP
– 128 configurable interfaces (static or DHCP)
– DHCP Relay
– IP forwarding
– IGMP Snooping v1, v2, v3
– 8 K ARP entries
– IPv6 host management
•
Quality of Service
– 802.1p priority queues
– Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) support
•
Availability
– Layer 2 Failover
– Hot Links
–VRRP

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Switch components
This section describes the RackSwitch G8264T hardware components.
Hardware options
The following list provides an overview of G8264T hardware:
• Switch unit
• Mounting hardware
– Heavy duty 2-post rack mounting brackets and screws (included)
– IBM iDataPlex™rack mounting brackets and screws
– IBM System-x 4-post (extendable rail) rack mounting brackets and screws
•
Hot-swap power supplies
• Hot-swap fans
Switch unit
Each RackSwitch G8264T series switch unit is a 1U rack-mountable Ethernet
switch. You can mount the G8264T in either the horizontal or vertical direction.
The RackSwitch G8264T allows for flexible mounting of the switch, as follows:
• The RackSwitch G8264T (front to rear) provides front-to-rear airflow.
• The RackSwitch G8264T (rear to front) provides rear-to-front airflow.
Ports
The switch unit contains the following ports:
• Forty-eight 10GBASE-T ports
• Four QSFP+ ports
• RJ-45 management port
• USB port for mass storage
• RS-232 serial console port
Note: Shielded twisted pair cables are recommended for use in the RJ-45
management port.