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How to deploy the Dell M8024 family of switches in a Cisco Nexus network
Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on Cisco Nexus 5010 switch
ports.
2. Configuring VLANs on internal ports of the Dell PowerConnect
M8024 switch, while configuring the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch to
extend those VLANs in an external Nexus network.
3. Configuring Multiple VLANs per internal port to connect to the
server NIC with Tag enabled. (An example of this would be
supporting virtual machines (VMs) in the server scenario.)
4. Configuring multiple port aggregation groups (mapping aggregate
groups to group-specific attached blade servers) and dedicating
specific uplinks to carry that traffic to the Cisco network.
5. Adding VLANs in a multi-aggregate group configuration.
6. Setting up a meshed topology for redundancy.
7. Setting up a topology with Link Aggregation Group (LAG) failover.
8. Establishing access with vPC enabled across two Cisco Nexus 5010
switches.
The appendices to the Guide give detailed, step-by-step information
on how to do the deployment and provide detailed configuration
information on the hardware we used.
TESTING SCENARIOS
Our testing included establishing connections and utilizing sample
features and functions of the Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch with
the goal of showing the ease of deployment of the Dell PowerConnect
M8024 switch and accompanying Dell hardware in a Cisco Nexus
environment. The Dell blade switch operated in Simple Switch Mode
as a port aggregator. We began each scenario with a fresh test bed,
which included a Dell PowerEdge M710 blade server in the Dell
PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure connected with Dell
PowerConnect M8024 switches. We include a network diagram
showing the general configuration of our switches in our test bed for
each scenario.