Lab Setup with Dell PowerEdge M1000e Chassis and MXL bladesThe Dell PowerEdge M620 blade chassis I am using is in slot 9 of the Dell M1000e PowerEdge chassis. On the server, I have a Broadcom 57810S CNA on the Fabric A slot, so the first 10 GbE port on the server is going to internal port ‘te 0/9′ on ‘Dell_MXL_A1′ and the second 10 GbE port is going to internal port ‘te 0/9′ on ‘Dell_MXL_A2′. Below I display a snapshot of the ‘Network Connections’ view in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2.

As you can see, there are two connections (one for each port on the Broadcom 57810S CNA). Chassis Management Contoller View of Fabric I/O Interfaces For this example lab setup, the Dell MXL blade switch configuration is very simple.

The MXL blades are in slots ‘A1′ and ‘A2′ on the Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis. I stack the MXL switches and put each respective port ‘te 0/9′ and ‘te 1/9′ in layer 2 mode via the ‘switchport’ command and enable it via the ‘no shutdown’ command. Enfocus Pitstop Pro 9 Mac Crack. The port(s) then become part of the default VLAN, ‘VLAN 1′. I do the same for ports ‘fo 0/33′ and ‘fo 1/33′ connecting up to the Dell S4180 switches. Here, the MXL switch is being used simply as a pass-through layer 2 switch. Next, I put ‘fo 0/52′ and ‘fo 1/52′ in a VLAN and give it an IP address as shown below. I also give each respective port connecting up to the ‘Dell_S4810_Core’ a unique IP address in the ’20.0.0.0/24′ subnet.