Deployment Guide

3 Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Networking Guide
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 Hardware Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Dell EMC S2D Ready Nodes .............................................................................................................................. 7
2.4 Management system .......................................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Supported Dell EMC Networking switches ......................................................................................................... 8
3 Topology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Connections to leaf switches ............................................................................................................................ 10
3.2 Connections to OOB management switch ....................................................................................................... 11
4 Configuration planning ............................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 RDMA overview ................................................................................................................................................ 12
4.2 DCB overview ................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Ready Node network adapter options .............................................................................................................. 12
4.3.1 QLogic FastLinQ QL41262 ............................................................................................................................... 12
4.3.2 Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx .................................................................................................................................. 12
4.4 Adapter/RDMA/DCB options ............................................................................................................................ 13
4.5 VLANs and IP addressing ................................................................................................................................ 13
5 Configure network adapters ....................................................................................................................................... 14
5.1 Reset network adapters to factory defaults ...................................................................................................... 14
5.2 Configure QLogic QL41262 adapters ............................................................................................................... 15
5.3 Verify Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx adapter settings ............................................................................................. 19
6 Leaf switch configuration prerequisites ...................................................................................................................... 22
6.1 Check switch OS version .................................................................................................................................. 22
6.2 Verify license installation .................................................................................................................................. 22
6.3 Factory default configuration ............................................................................................................................ 23
7 Configure leaf switches .............................................................................................................................................. 24
7.1 General settings................................................................................................................................................ 25
7.2 Configure port-groups ....................................................................................................................................... 25
7.3 Configure VLANs and VRRP ............................................................................................................................ 26
7.4 Configure storage interfaces ............................................................................................................................ 27
7.5 Configure in-band management interfaces ...................................................................................................... 28