6.In the Operational Mode Configuration screen, select Enable in the Simple Mode drop-down menu, and left-click Apply Changes (see Figure 37).

Figure 37: Simple Mode configuration on the second Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch.

On the Cisco Nexus 5010 switches

1.Log into the switch.

2.Type the following commands into the first Cisco Nexus 5010 switch (see Figure 38):

configure terminal

spanning-tree vlan 1-4094 priority 0

Figure 38: Configuring spanning tree priority on the first Cisco Nexus 5010 switch.

3.Type the following commands into the second Cisco Nexus 5010 switch (see Figure 39):

configure terminal

spanning-tree vlan 1-4094 priority 4096

Figure 39: Configuring spanning tree priority on the second Cisco Nexus 5010 switch.

4.Connect the cables from the Cisco Nexus 5010 switches to each other and to the Dell PowerConnect M8024 switches. The

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