Dell Cisco Catalyst 3850 PS Series Configuration Manual
Cisco Catalyst 3850
Switch Configuration Guide for Dell PS Series SANs
Dell Storage Engineering
October 2016
A Dell EMC Deployment and Configuration Guide
Date
Description
October 2016
Initial release
Revisions
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Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Switch details ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 Cabling diagram.................................................................................................................................................. 5
2 Dell recommended switch configuration ...................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Hardware configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Startup configuration file ..................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3 Basic system configuration ................................................................................................................................. 6
2.4 Configure Jumbo Frames, LLDP, and Spanning Tree ....................................................................................... 7
2.5 Configure policy-map and increase queue multiplier ......................................................................................... 8
2.6 Configure port-channel interfaces ...................................................................................................................... 8
2.7 Configuring edge-ports ....................................................................................................................................... 9
2.8 Save configuration .............................................................................................................................................. 9
2.9 Configure additional switch ................................................................................................................................. 9
A Additional resources ................................................................................................................................................... 10
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