Dell S3100 User Manual
Rev. A01
February 2021
Dell EMC Networking S3100 Series Release Notes, OS Version 9.14(2.9P1)
This document contains information about open and resolved issues, and operational information specific to the Dell EMC
Networking operating software (OS) and the S3100 Series platform.
Current Release Version: 9.14(2.9P1)
Release Date: 2021-02-18
Previous Release Version: 9.14(2.9)
Topics:
• Document Revision History
• Requirements
• New Dell EMC Networking OS Version 9.14(2.9) Features
• Restrictions
• Changes to Default Behavior and CLI Syntax
• Documentation Corrections
• Deferred Issues
• Fixed Issues
• Known Issues
• Upgrade Instructions
• Support Resources
NOTE:
This document may contain language that is not consistent with current guidelines of Dell Technologies. There are
plans to update this document over subsequent releases to revise the language accordingly.
Incorrect behavior or unexpected caveats are listed as the Problem Report (PR) numbers within the appropriate sections.
NOTE:
You can subscribe to issue update reports or use the BugTrack search tool to read current information about
open and closed software issues. To subscribe or use BugTrack, visit iSupport at: https://www.force10networks.com/
CSPortal20/BugTrack/SearchIssues.aspx. All Release Notes are available on the Software Center tab of iSupport.
The link to the relevant Release Notes for each software version is next to the link for that version: https://
www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/Software/Downloads.aspx.
For more information on hardware and software features, commands, and capabilities, refer to the Dell EMC Networking
support website at: https://www.dell.com/support
Document Revision History
Table 1. Revision History
Date Description
2021-02 9.14.2.9P1 - Added Fixed Issues for the release.
2020–12 Initial release.
1
Requirements
The following requirements apply to the S3100 Series.
Hardware Requirements
The following table lists the Dell EMC S3100 Series hardware requirements:
Table 2. System Hardware Requirements
Platforms Hardware Requirements
S3124 chassis
S3124F chassis
S3124P chassis
● Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports that
support auto-negotiation for speed, flow control, and duplex.
● Two SFP 1G combo ports.
● Two SFP+ 10G ports.
● 20G expansion slot that supports an optional small form-factor
pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module.
● Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports
HG[21] to connect up to twelve S3100 series switches.
● Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 100BASEFX/1000BASE-X SFP ports.
● Two 1G copper combo ports.
● Two SFP+ 10G ports.
● 20G expansion slot that supports an optional small form-factor
pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module.
● Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports
HG[21] to connect up to twelve S3100 series switches.
● Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports for
copper that support auto-negotiation for speed, flow control, and
duplex.
● Two SFP 1G combo ports.
● Two SFP+ 10G ports.
● Supports PoE+.
● 20G expansion slot that supports an optional small form-factor
pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module.
● Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports
HG[21] to connect up to twelve S3100 series switches.
S3148P chassis
S3148 chassis
2
● Forty-eight Gigabit Ethernet 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T
RJ-45 ports that support auto-negotiation for speed, flow control,
and duplex.
● Two SFP 1G combo ports.
● Two SFP+ 10G ports.
● Supports PoE+.
● 20G expansion slot that supports an optional small form-factor
pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module.
● Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports
HG[21] to connect up to twelve S3100 series switches.
● Forty-eight Gigabit Ethernet 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T
RJ-45 ports that support auto-negotiation for speed, flow control,
and duplex.
● Two SFP 1G combo ports.
● Two SFP+ 10G ports.
● 20G expansion slot that supports an optional small form-factor
pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module.
● Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports
HG[21] to connect up to twelve S3100 series switches.
Software Requirements
The following table lists the Dell EMC S3100 Series software requirements:
Table 3. System Software Requirements
Software Minimum Release Requirement
Dell EMC Networking OS 9.14(2.9)
New Dell EMC Networking OS Version 9.14(2.9) Features
The following features are integrated into the Dell EMC Networking 9.14.2 branch through this release:
None
Restrictions
● Prerequisite steps to upgrade the Dell EMC Networking OS from earlier version to 9.14.2.0 or later:
1. Uninstall the older version of the Open Automation (OA) package
2. Upgrade the Dell EMC Networking OS to 9.14.2.0 or later version
3. Install the following OA packages from the respective upgraded version:
a. SmartScripts
b. Puppet
c. Open management infrastructure (OMI)
d. SNMP MIB
Prerequisite steps to downgrade the Dell EMC Networking OS from 9.14.2.0 or later to the earlier version:
1. Uninstall the OA package of 9.14.2.0 or later version
2. Downgrade the Dell EMC Networking OS to an earlier version
3. Install the respective OA package from an earlier version
For more information about installing, uninstalling and upgrading the Dell EMC Networking OS and OA package, refer the
respective Dell EMC System Release Notes.
● If you downgrade the Dell EMC Networking OS version from 9.14.2.9 to 9.11.0.0 or any older versions, the system displays
the following error message even though there is no functional impact:
CDB boot error: C.cdb file format
Before downgrading, save the current configuration and then remove the CDB files (confd_cdb.tar.gz.version and
confd_cdb.tar.gz). To remove the files, use the following steps:
DellEMC#write memory
DellEMC#delete flash://confd_cdb.tar.gz.version
DellEMC#delete flash://confd_cdb.tar.gz
DellEMC#reload
● While deploying the system in the normal-reload mode in BMP configuration, use the ip ssh server enable command
at the beginning of the startup configuration if the write memory command is used at the end of the configuration.
● REST API does not support AAA authentication.
● The following features are not available in the Dell EMC Networking OS from version 9.7(0.0):
○ PIM ECMP
○ Static IGMP join (ip igmp static-group)
○ IGMP querier timeout configuration (ip igmp querier-timeout)
○ IGMP group join limit (ip igmp group join-limit)
● Half-Duplex mode is not supported.
● When FRRP is enabled in a VLT domain, no flavor of Spanning tree should concurrently be enabled on the nodes of that
specific VLT domain. In essence FRRP and xSTP should not co-exist in a VLT environment.
3
Changes to Default Behavior and CLI Syntax
● From 9.14(2.4P1) onwards, a new nand chip ships on the S3100 series switch. This chip supports the new UBoot version
5.2.1.10.
Documentation Corrections
None.
Deferred Issues
Issues that appear in this section were reported in a previous version of Dell Networking OS version as open, but have since
been deferred. Deferred issues are the issues that are found to be invalid, not reproducible, or not scheduled for resolution.
Deferred issues are reported using the following definitions.
Category
PR# Problem Report number that identifies the issue.
Severity
Synopsis Synopsis is the title or short description of the issue.
Release Notes Release Notes description contains more detailed information about the issue.
Work around
Description
S1 — Crash: A software crash occurs in the kernel or a running process that requires a restart of AFM,
the router, switch, or process.
S2 — Critical: An issue that renders the system or a major feature unusable, which can have a pervasive
impact on the system or network, and for which there is no work-around acceptable to the customer.
S3 — Major: An issue that affects the functionality of a major feature or negatively effects the network
for which there exists a work-around that is acceptable to the customer.
S4 — Minor: A cosmetic issue or an issue in a minor feature with little or no network impact for which
there might be a work-around.
Work around describes a mechanism for circumventing, avoiding, or recovering from the issue. It might
not be a permanent solution.
Issues listed in the “Closed Caveats” section should not be present, and the work-around is unnecessary,
as the version of code for which this release note is documented has resolved the caveat.
Deferred S3100 series 9.14(2.0) Software Issues
Issues that appear in this section were reported in Dell EMC Networking OS version 9.14(2.0) as open, but have since been
deferred. Deferred caveats are those that are found to be invalid, not reproducible, or not scheduled for resolution.
None.
Fixed Issues
Fixed issues are reported using the following definitions.
Category
PR# Problem Report number that identifies the issue.
Severity
4
Description
S1 — Crash: A software crash occurs in the kernel or a running process that requires a restart of AFM,
the router, switch, or process.
Category Description
S2 — Critical: An issue that renders the system or a major feature unusable, which can have a pervasive
impact on the system or network, and for which there is no work-around acceptable to the customer.
S3 — Major: An issue that affects the functionality of a major feature or negatively effects the network
for which there exists a work-around that is acceptable to the customer.
S4 — Minor: A cosmetic issue or an issue in a minor feature with little or no network impact for which
there might be a work-around.
Synopsis Synopsis is the title or short description of the issue.
Release Notes Release Notes description contains more detailed information about the issue.
Work around
Work around describes a mechanism for circumventing, avoiding, or recovering from the issue. It might
not be a permanent solution.
Issues listed in the “Closed Caveats” section should not be present, and the work-around is unnecessary,
as the version of code for which this release note is documented has resolved the issue.
Fixed S3100 Series 9.14(2.9P1) Software Issues
NOTE: Dell EMC Networking OS 9.14(2.9P1) includes fixes for caveats addressed in the previous 9.14 releases. Refer to the
respective release notes documentation for the list of caveats fixed in the earlier 9.14 releases.
The following caveats are fixed in Dell EMC Networking OS version 9.14(2.9P1):
PR# 169575
Severity: Sev 2
Synopsis: In certain scenarios, port configuration does not take effect and you
may see the IFMGR-3-IFA_COMM_FAIL syslog error.
Release Notes: In certain scenarios, port configuration does not take effect and you
may see the IFMGR-3-IFA_COMM_FAIL syslog error.
Workaround: None
PR# 169816
Severity: Sev 2
Synopsis: 10G optional module ports go down randomly.
Release Notes: 10G optional module ports go down randomly.
Workaround: None
PR# 170018
Severity: Sev 1
Synopsis: Ethernet packet type 0x888e is not handled, leading to a memory leak.
Release Notes: Ethernet packet type 0x888e is not handled, leading to a memory leak.
Workaround: None
PR# 170024
Severity: Sev 2
5
Synopsis: On a fully scaled switch, with all ports fanned out, some ports fail to
OPER UP after reload.
Release Notes: On a fully scaled switch, with all ports fanned out, some ports fail to
OPER UP after reload.
Workaround: None
PR# 170029
Severity: Sev 3
Synopsis: Certain configurations are lost after reload, when alias configuration is
used.
Release Notes: Certain configurations are lost after reload, when alias configuration is
used.
Workaround: None
PR# 170041
Severity: Sev 2
Synopsis: In certain scenarios, in a VLT environment, the switch may encounter
an exception during VLT failover.
Release Notes: In certain scenarios, in a VLT environment, the switch may encounter
an exception during VLT failover.
Workaround: None
Fixed S3100 Series 9.14(2.9) Software Issues
NOTE:
Dell EMC Networking OS 9.14(2.9) includes fixes for caveats addressed in the previous 9.14 releases. See the
respective release notes documentation for the list of caveats fixed in the earlier 9.14 releases.
The following caveats have been fixed in the Dell EMC Networking OS version 9.14(2.9):
PR# 169919
Severity: Sev 3
Synopsis: The switch may encounter a software exception due to invalid memory
access on bootup.
Release Notes: The switch may encounter a software exception due to invalid memory
access on bootup.
Workaround: None
PR# 169921
Severity: Sev 2
Synopsis: Static routes are not restored when BFD is disabled at interface level.
Release Notes: Static routes are not restored when BFD is disabled at interface level.
Workaround: None
6
Loading...