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Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 Installation Guide

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Prerequisites for M1000e (with MXL), S5000, and Compellent

The following table describes the prerequisites for the FCoE solution offered using M1000e (with MXL), S5000, and Compellent. For more information, see http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20387203

Resource Prerequisites
MXL
  • DCB needs to be enabled.

  • VLT needs to be disabled.

  • FIP Snooping feature needs to be enabled on the MXL.

                                                          Conf
                                                          Feature fip-snooping
                                                       
  • Port-channel member interfaces needs to have below configuration.

    interface range tengigabitethernet 0/33 – 36
                                                          port-channel-protocol lacp 
                                                          port-channel 128 mode active 
                                                          exit
                                                          
                                                          protocol lldp 
                                                          no advertise dcbx-tlv ets-reco 
                                                          dcbx port-role auto-upstream 
                                                          no shut
                                                          exit
                                                          
                                                       
  • Port-channel connecting S5000 switch needs to have following configuration.

    interface port-channel 128
                                                          portmode hybrid
                                                          switchport
                                                          fip-snooping port-mode fcf
                                                          
                                                       
  • Server facing ports need to have following configuration..

    portmode hybrid  
                                                          switchport 
                                                          protocol lldp 
                                                          dcbx port-role auto-downstream 
                                                          no shut 
                                                          exit
                                                          
                                                       
S5000

Following is the prerequisite for S5000.

  • Enable Fibre Channel capability and Full Fabric mode.

    feature fc 
                                                          fc switch-mode fabric-services
                                                          
                                                       
  • Enable FC ports connecting to Compellent storage array and FC ports connecting to other S5000 switch via ISL links.

    interface range fi 0/0 - 7 
                                                          no shut
                                                          
                                                       
  • Create DCB Map.

    dcb-map SAN_DCB_MAP
                                                          priority-group 0 bandwidth 60 pfc off 
                                                          priority-group 1 bandwidth 40 pfc on 
                                                          priority-pgid 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 
                                                          exit
                                                          
                                                       
  • Create a FCoE VLAN.

    fcoe-map default_full_fabric fabric-id <FCoE VLAN ID> vlan <FCoE VLAN Id> 
                                                          fc-map <FC MAP> 
                                                          exit 
                                                       
    • NOTE: Following is the process of generating the FC MAP.

    For generating the fc-map use below ruby code.

    Here VLAN ID is FCoE VLAN ID.

    fc_map = vlanid.to_i.to_s(16).upcase[0..1]
                                                          fc_map.length == 1 ? fc_map = "0EFC0#{fc_map}" : fc_map = "0EFC#{fc_map}"
                                                          
                                                       
Compellent

Fault domain need to be created as per Compellent best practices.


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