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10GbE switches can be reached from the rack.
- At least one switch must be available to connect the
FluidFS cluster to the Storage Center. An FS8600 appliance cannot
be connected directly to a Storage Center.
- To connect an FS8600 appliance to an SCv2080 storage
system, use a switch that supports both 10GBASE-T and SFP+ connectivity.
- For high availability, deploy two switches (one for
each Storage Center fault domain).
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10GbE switch infrastructure has four LC optical
or SFP+ (twinax) connections available for each FS8600 appliance
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If you are using VLAN tagging, configure one unique
VLAN for each iSCSI subnet (Storage Center fault domain).
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Flow Control is enabled on the switches. |
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Unicast storm control is disabled on the switches. |
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Jumbo frames are enabled on the switches to support
a frame size of 9000 bytes.
- Dell PowerConnect and Force10 switches must be configured
to 9216 MTU.
- Switches from vendors other than Dell might require
a different MTU configuration to accept 9000-byte frames.
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Switches allow multicast between all ports on the
iSCSI/internal network.
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IPv6 is enabled on the switch ports connected to
FS8600 appliances.
IPv6 link-local addressing is used
for internal network communication. Routing of IPv6 traffic is not
required on the iSCSI/internal network switches.
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IGMP and/or MLD snooping are disabled on the switch
ports connected to FS8600 appliances.
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All switch ports connected to FS8600 appliances
are set as edge ports or PortFast to skip Spanning Tree negotiation.
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