Deployment of Dell Blade Switches With External J-Series Switches
Date
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2/25/2011
Get an overview and step-by-step guide for a variety of different network scenarios in which to deploy the Dell™ PowerConnect™ M8024 Blade switch with the Dell external PowerConnect™ J-EX8200 line of switches. You'll learn how built-in features like Simple Switch firmware can be used to easily and quickly configure both technologies to work together without requiring extensive knowledge of the network.
The scenarios are as follows:
- Plugging and playing the Dell PowerConnect M8024 switch
- Configuring VLANs on the internal ports of the M8024 switch
- Configuring multiple VLANs per internal port to connect to a server NIC with Tag enabled
- Configuring multiple Port Aggregation Groups and dedicating specific uplinks
- Adding VLANs in a multi-AG configuration
- Setting up a straight-through topology with LAG failover