Skip to main content
Sign Out

Welcome to Dell

My Account
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Enjoy members-only rewards and discounts
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.
Sign In Create an Account Dell Financial Services Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In
Contact Us

Your Dell.com Carts

Dell PowerStore Networking Guide for PowerStore T Models

PDF

Management switch connectivity

Deployment with at least one out-of-band management switch is required for all PowerStore T model deployments.

Node to Management switch connectivity requirements

The Management switch must be connected through the 1 GbE management port on each of the appliance base enclosure nodes as demonstrated in the following diagrams.

Figure 1. Management switch network topology
NOTE: For remote discovery of PowerStore T model, the Management switch ports must support untagged native VLAN traffic.

The following diagram shows where the management ports are located on the PowerStore T model base enclosure nodes.

Figure 2. PowerStore T model base enclosure node management ports
IdentifierDescription
1Node A Management Port
2Node B Management Port

Management switch with upstream connections

The following image shows an example of a management switch that connects to two Management upstream switches.

NOTE: The following diagram is an example of connectivity to the management upstream switches. Work with your network administrator to configure connectivity to the management upstream switches.
Figure 3. Management switch connectivity to the upstream switches

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\