Dell EMC Networking – Deploying Native FibreChannel Cheat Sheet on deploying Fibre-Channel using the Dell EMC S4148U-ON Abstract Short configuration guide on S4148U as a native fibre-channel switch April 2018 Dell EMC Technical White Paper
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Table of contents Revisions.............................................................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................................................3 Test Setup ...........................................................................................................................
Test Setup Figure 1 shows the setup used to test native Fibre-Channel deployment on the Dell EMC S4148U. The following list describes the setup: Traffic is uni-directional, from host to target Storage traffic is generated by the server The S4148U is running OS10 (10.4.0(X2)) The target storage device is an emulated FC target (SAN Blaze) Connection is at 16Gbps Dell EMC S4148U-ON Fibre-Channel test setup 5 Dell EMC Networking – Deploying Native Fibre-Channel | 1.
A Configuration Details A.1 S4148U-ON as FC Native Switch 1. Enable FC feature and create domain ID a. Switch# conf t b. Switch(config)# feature fc 2. Configure the Ethernet interface as fibre-channel interface a. Switch# conf t b. Switch(config)# port-group 1/1/1 c. Switch(conf-pg-1/1/1)# mode fc <16g-2x or 8g-4x> d. Switch(conf-pg-1/1/1)# end e. Switch# 3. Create FCoE vlan a. Switch# conf t b. Switch(config)# int vlan 1002 c. Switch(config)# end d. Switch# 4. Create the vfabric.
A.2 Switch configuration output The following screen capture shows the entire configuration as it appears on the S4148U-ON. Enable FC and create a domain ID Configure interface as FC interface Create FCoE vlan Configure vfabric with zone permit and respective vlan Attach vfabric to the proper interfaces 7 Dell EMC Networking – Deploying Native Fibre-Channel | 1.
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