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Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Networking Guide
Table of contents
Revisions
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1
Introduction
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1.1
Typographical conventions
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1.2
Attachments
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2
Hardware Overview
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2.1
Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON
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2.2
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
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2.3
Dell EMC S2D Ready Nodes
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2.4
Management system
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2.5
Supported Dell EMC Networking switches
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Topology
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3.1
Connections to leaf switches
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3.2
Connections to OOB management switch
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Configuration planning
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4.1
RDMA overview
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4.2
DCB overview
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4.3
Ready Node network adapter options
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4.3.1
QLogic FastLinQ QL41262
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4.3.2
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx
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4.4
Adapter/RDMA/DCB options
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4.5
VLANs and IP addressing
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Configure network adapters
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5.1
Reset network adapters to factory defaults
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5.2
Configure QLogic QL41262 adapters
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5.3
Verify Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx adapter settings
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Leaf switch configuration prerequisites
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6.1
Check switch OS version
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6.2
Verify license installation
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6.3
Factory default configuration
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Configure leaf switches
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7.1
General settings
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7.2
Configure port-groups
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7.3
Configure VLANs and VRRP
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7.4
Configure storage interfaces
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7.5
Configure in-band management interfaces
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