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1GbE or 10GbE switches can be reached from the
rack in a multi-appliance configuration. Although the best practice
is to isolate internal and client traffic on separate physical networks,
it is possible to use the same switch and use separate logical networks
by configuring VLANs.
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Switch infrastructure has sufficient ports available
- Fibre Channel with 1GbE appliance – Eight RJ45 connections
for each appliance
- Fibre Channel with 10GbE appliance – Four LC optical
fiber or SFP+ (twinax) connections for each appliance
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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 connected
to FS8600 appliances.
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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 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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