Dell PowerConnect 8024 User manual

Dell PowerConnect

8024/8024F Switch

User’s Configuration

Guide

Regulatory Models: PC8024 and PC8024F

Notes and Cautions

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Regulatory Models: PC8024 and PC8024F

September 2011 Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Additional Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

2 Switch Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

System Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Multiple Management Options . . . . . . . . . . . 52

System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Log Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Management of Basic Network Information. . . . 53

IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Switch Database Management Templates. . . . . 54

Automatic Installation of Firmware and

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 55

Remote Monitoring (RMON) . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Stacking Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

High Port Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Automatic Firmware Upgrade for New

Stack Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 57

Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 57

Hot Add/Delete and Firmware Synchronization . . 57

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configurable Access and Authentication

Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Password-Protected Management Access . . . . 58

Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 58

TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

RADIUS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X) . . . . . . . . . 60

MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 60

Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

MAC-Based Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

IP Source Guard (IPSG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge). . . . . . . . 62

Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 63

Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 63

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Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 63

Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching. . . . . . . . 64

Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 65

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . 65

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for

Media Endpoint Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 66

Data Center Bridging (DBC) Exchange Protocol . . 66

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

Initialization Protocol Snooping . . . . . . . . . . 66

Cisco Protocol Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 67

VLAN Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

MAC-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 68

GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Double VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard. . . . . . 71

BPDU Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP) . . . . . . 71

Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Table Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 72

BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

IP Helper and UDP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Routing Information Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 74

Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 74

IPv6 Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Differentiated Services (DiffServ) . . . . . . . . . 76

Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Auto Voice over IP (VoIP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Internet Small Computer System Interface

(iSCSI) Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

MAC Multicast Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . 79

Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 79

IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Protocol Independent Multicast—Dense

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Protocol Independent Multicast—Source

Specific Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 80

MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 80

3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

PowerConnect 8024/8024F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 81

PowerConnect 8024 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 81

PowerConnect 8024F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 82

Port and System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

PowerConnect 8024/8024F Back Panel . . . . . . . . . 83

Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Out-of-Band Management Port . . . . . . . . . . 84

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Ventilation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch

Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . . 87

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Using the Device View Port Features. . . . . . . . 92

5 Using the Command-Line Interface . . . . 93

Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 93

Console Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Telnet Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Question Mark to Get Help. . . . . . . . 97

Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Entering Abbreviated Commands. . . . . . . . . . 98

Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 99

Recalling Commands from the History

Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

7 Setting the IP Address and Other

Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 105

IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 105

What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 105

Why Is Basic Network Information Needed? . . . 106

How Is Basic Network Information

Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

What Is Out-of-Band Management and

In-Band Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . . 110

Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN IP

Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default

Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Domain Name Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . . 118

Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port. . . . . 118

Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default

VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Configuring Static Network Information on

the OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Configuring Static Network Information on

the Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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Configuring and Viewing Additional Network

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Basic Network Information Configuration

Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

8 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Stacking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Creating a PowerConnect 8024 Stack . . . . . . 126

How is the Management Unit Selected? . . . . . 127

Adding a Switch to the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing a Switch from the Stack . . . . . . . . 129

How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack?. . . 130

What is Stacking Standby? . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . 131

Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack

Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

NSF Network Design Considerations. . . . . . . 134

Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Default Stacking Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Managing and Monitoring the Stack (Web) . . . . . . 136

Unit Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Stack Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Stack Firmware Synchronization . . . . . . . . . 139

Supported Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Stack Port Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Stack Port Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Stack Port Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

NSF Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Checkpoint Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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