C: Using Dell S4810 Or Dell Mxl/Ioa Blade Switch As A Fip-Snooping Bridge - Dell S5000 Deployment/Configuration Manual

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C: Using Dell S4810 or Dell MXL/IOA Blade switch as a

FIP-snooping Bridge

To stick to our original diagram from section A our example setup has the Dell PowerEdge R720 server

with a Dell QLogic QLE8262 CNA, Dell S5000 switch as a NPIV Proxy Gateway, and a Dell Compellent

storage array for FC storage.

In Figure 64, we have inserted a Dell S4810 switch as a FIP-snooping Bridge (FSB) between the S5000

switches and the respective CNA port on the server. As mentioned in the "Dell Networking S5000: The

Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence" whitepaper, the case where a FSB will be

most warranted is with the Dell MXL/IOA switch inside a Dell M1000e chassis as show in Figure 67.

However, the Dell S4810 or another S5000 can be at ToR as FSBs with the S5000s employing NPIV at

EoR. Note, in the case as shown in Figure 64, there is no need to have the LAN traffic traverse all the

way to the S5000; we can simply split the LAN and SAN traffic at the S4810 via VLANs and have the

S5000 decaspulate the FC packets. Again, the more likely use case will be to go right to ToR with

S5000s and not have S4810s as FSBs at all or have Dell MXL/IOAs as FSBs.

Figure 64: Dell S5000 acting as a NPIV Proxy Gateway and Dell S4810 as FSB

Note, we now configure VLT on the Z9000s down to the downstream S4810 FSBs. Notice that we

have a separate link for FCoE traffic.

No other configuration on the S5000s or CNA needs to change. However, we do have to add some

configuration to the Dell S4810 switch. The full configuration for the fabric A S4810 is shown below.

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