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

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

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Regulatory Models: PC8024, PC8024F, PC8132, PC8132F, PC8164, PC8164F

June 2012 Rev. A03

Contents 3

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Management of Basic Network Information . . . . 55

IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Switch Database Management Templates. . . . . 56

Automatic Installation of Firmware and

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 57

Remote Monitoring (RMON) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Stacking Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

High Port Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

4Contents

Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Automatic Firmware Update for New Stack M

embers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 59

Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 59

Hot Add/Delete and Firmware

Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Configurable Access and Authentication

Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Password-Protected Management Access . . . . 60

Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 60

TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

RADIUS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Port Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X) . . . . . . . . . 62

MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 62

Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

MAC-Based Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

IP Source Guard (IPSG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge). . . . . . . . 65

Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 65

Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 65

Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 65

Contents 5

Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching. . . . . . . . 66

Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 68

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . 68

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for

Media Endpoint Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 68

Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)

Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Enhanced Transmission Selection . . . . . . . . . 69

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

Initialization Protocol Snooping . . . . . . . . . . 69

Cisco Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 70

VLAN Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MAC-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 71

GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Double VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard. . . . . . 74

BPDU Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP) . . . . . . 74

Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Table

Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 76

BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IP Helper and UDP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Routing Information Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 78

Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 78

IPv6 Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Differentiated Services (DiffServ) . . . . . . . . . 80

Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Auto Voice over IP (VoIP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Internet Small Computer System Interface

(iSCSI) Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Contents 7

Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

MAC Multicast Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . 83

Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 83

IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Dense Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Sparse Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Protocol Independent Multicast—Source

Specific Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 84

MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 84

3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerConnect 8024 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 85

PowerConnect 8024F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 86

PowerConnect 8132 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 87

PowerConnect 8132F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 87

PowerConnect 8164 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 88

PowerConnect 8164F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 89

Hot-Pluggable Interface Modules . . . . . . . . . 90

USB Port (Power Connect 8100-series

switches only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Port and System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

8Contents

PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series

Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Out-of-Band Management Port. . . . . . . . . . . 93

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Ventilation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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

Contents 9

Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using the Question Mark to Get Help . . . . . . . 111

Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 112

Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 113

Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 113

6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

7 Setting the IP Address and Other

Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 119

IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 119

What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 119

Why Is Basic Network Information Needed? . . . 120

How Is Basic Network Information

Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

What Is Out-of-Band Management and

In-Band Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . . 124

Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN

IP Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default

Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Domain Name Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 131

Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . 132

Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port . . . . 132

Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default

VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Configuring Static Network Information on the

OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Configuring Static Network Information on the

Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Configuring and Viewing Additional Network

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Basic Network Information Configuration

Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

8 Managing QSFP Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

9 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Stacking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Creating a PowerConnect 8000/8100 Series

Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

How is the Stack Master Selected? . . . . . . . 144

Adding a Switch to the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Removing a Switch from the Stack . . . . . . . . 146

How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack?. . . 147

What is Stacking Standby? . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . 147

Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack

Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

NSF Network Design Considerations. . . . . . . 151

Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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