Dell 8 manual Prerequisites for Rack Server, Cisco Nexus, and Compellent

Resource

Compellent

Prerequisites

Example

interface vfc101

bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:07 no shutdown

interface vfc102

bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:21 no shutdown

•Move back into the VSAN database and create entries for the new VFC just created and create entries for the FC port(s) that will be used.

vsan database

vsan 2 interface vfc101 vsan 2 interface vfc102 vsan 2 interface fc2/1

vsan 2 interface fc2/2

NOTE: All the Compellent ports needs to part of the same VSAN.

Create fault domain as per Compellent best practices.

Prerequisites for Rack Server, Cisco Nexus, and Compellent

The following table describes the prerequisites for the FCoE solution offered using Rack Server, Cisco Nexus and Compellent. For more information, see http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/ white_papers/20387203

Resource

Cisco Nexus

Prerequisites

Following is the prerequisite for Cisco Nexus.

•Enable required features.

feature fcoe feature npiv feature lacp

•Create a new VSAN - instantiate it in the VSAN database.

conf

vsan database vsan <vsan id>

•Configure regular ethernet VLANs, and then the FCoE VLAN is created with an assignment to its respective VSAN.

vlan <fcoe vlan> fcoe vsan <vsan>

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