Manual Blade ICE BMD00098

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    2350 Mis sio n C ollege Blv d. Suite 600 Santa Clar a, CA 95 05 4 www .bladene twork.n et BLADEO S ™ Release Notes 1/10Gb U plink E thernet Switch Mod ule for IBM BladeCe nter ® Ve r s i o n 5 . 1 Part N umber: BM D00098, D ecember 2009 ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 2 BMD00098 , Decem ber 200 9 Copyrigh t © 200 9 BLADE Network T echnologies, Inc., 2350 Mi ssion Coll ege Blv d. Suite 600, Sa nta Clara, Californi a, 95054, USA. Al l rights reserved. Reference number: BM D00098 This do cument is p rotec ted by co pyright a nd dist ributed un der lic enses re strictin g its u se, copyin ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 3

    BMD00098 , Decem ber 200 9 3 Release Notes The 1/10G b Uplink Ether net Switch Module (GbES M) is on e of up t o four Gb ESMs that ca n be installed in the IBM BladeC enter chassis . These releas e no tes pr ovi d e th e lates t infor mat ion r egardin g BL ADEOS 5.1 for the 1/ 10Gb Up lin k Ethernet Switch Module. This supplement modifies informat ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 4

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 4 BMD00098 , December 2009 Hardwa re Support BLADEOS 5 .1 software is sup ported only o n the 1/10G b Uplink Ethernet Switch Mo dule ( Figure 1 ) for IBM BladeCenter . The GbESM is a high perfor mance Layer 2-3 embedded network switch that features tight integration with IBM BladeCenter management modules. Figure 1 1/10G ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 5

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 5 The GbESM contains three 10 Gigabit Small Form-factor , Pluggable (SFP+) slots. The 10Gb SFP+ slots can accept 1Gb copper transceivers, 10Gb optical transceivers, or Direct Attach Cables (DAC). Note – If a DAC is not p rogrammed to m eet MSA sp ecifications (including length identifier), the ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 6

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 6 BMD00098 , December 2009 Up da ting the Swi tch Sof t ware Imag e The switch software image i s the executab l e code running on the GbESM. A version o f the image ships with the switch, and comes pre-installed on the dev i ce. As new ver sions of the image ar e released, you can upgrade the soft ware runni ng on your s ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 7

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 7 Using the BLADEOS CL I 1. At the Boot Options# prom pt , ent er: 2. Enter the name of the s wit ch software to be r eplaced: 3. Enter the hostname o r IP address of the FTP or TFTP server . 4. Enter the name of the new software file o n the server . The exact form of the name will vary by serv ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 8

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 8 BMD00098 , December 2009 Using the ISCLI 1. In Privileged EXEC mode, enter the following command: 2. Enter the hostname o r IP address of the FTP or TFTP server . 3. Enter the name of the new software file o n the server . The exact form of the name will vary by server . However , the file location is normally relative ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 9

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 9 Using the BBI Y ou can use the Browser-B ased Interface to load software onto the GbESM. Th e software image to load can resid e in one of the f o llowing locations:  FTP server  TFTP server  Local computer After you log onto the BBI, perform the followin g steps t o load a softwa re ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 10

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 10 BMD00098 , December 2009 New and Up date d Features BLADEOS 5.1 for 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Mod ule (GbESM) has been updated to include new and enhan ced features in support of s erver and peer switch discovery , as well as failure detection at the link layer . In addition, there are enhancements to exis tin g im ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 11

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 11 Uni-Directional L ink Discovery Protocol BLADEOS 5.1 now supports th e Uni-Directional Link Discovery (UDLD) protocol, compliant with RFC 51 71. UDLD operates at Layer 2 in co njunction with existing IEEE 802. 3 Layer 1 fault detection mechanisms. It is used between peer devices to detect and ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 12

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 12 BMD00098 , December 2009 Internal Loopback Interfa ce BLADEOS 5.1 now supp orts up to f ive loopback interfaces . A loopback interface is an interface which is assigned an IP address, but is not associated with any particular phys ical port. The loop back interface is thus always ava i lable for higher layer pro tocols ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 13

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 13 Hot Links BLADEOS 5 .1 now supports Hot Lin ks. Hot Link s provides bas ic link redundancy with fa st recover y for netwo rk topologies th at requi re Spanning T ree to be turned o ff. Hot Links allows up to five triggers, each of which cons is ts of a pair of layer 2 interfaces that may cont ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 14 BMD00098 , December 2009 LACP T runk Enhancem ent s BLADEOS 5 .1 now supp orts up to eight links in ea ch LACP Link Aggregat ion Grou p (LAG). Layer 2 Failover Enhancement s BLADEOS 5.1 includes multiple enhancements to the Layer 2 Failover feature to s upport advanced NIC teaming:  In addition to the automatic moni ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 15 ISL Layer 2 Protocol Enhancem ent s BLADEOS 5 .1 now supports add itional Layer 2 protocols on Inte r -Switc h Link (ISL) ports:  VRRP  STP  RSTP/MST P  802.1Q VLAN T aggi ng  802.1 p Qo S/CoS  802.1X Port-B ased Access Control  ACLs STP Fast Uplink Bridge P riority W ith ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 16

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 16 BMD00098 , December 2009 Chassis Internal Network BLADEOS 5.1 now supp orts BladeCenter Chassi s Internal Network (CIN). CIN provides internal connectivity between b l ade server ports and the internal Advanced Manag ement Module (AMM) port. This allows blade server users to access the AMM via CLI, web-browser , or SNM ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 17

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 17  Port link information ( /info/link ) for swi tches installed i n bay 3 and bay 4 :  Port in form atio n ( /info/port ) for switches instal led in ba y 1 and bay 2: Alias Port Speed Duplex Flow Ctrl Link ---- ----- ----- -------- --TX-----RX-- ------ INT1 1 1000 full yes yes up INT2 2 1 ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 18 BMD00098 , December 2009  Port in form atio n ( /info/port ) for switches instal led in ba y 3 and bay 4: Other Featur es BLADEOS 5 .1 now also support s  PVRST Alias Port Tag Fast Lrn Fld PVID NAME VLAN(s) ----- ---- --- ---- --- --- ---- -------------- -------------------- INT1 1 y n e e 1 INT1 1 4095 INT2 2 y ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 19 Supplement al In formation This section provides additional informatio n abo ut configu ring and operating the GbESM and BLADEO S. Management Module  The “Fast POST=Disabled/Enabled” insid e the IBM managemen t module W eb interface “I/O Module Adm in Power/Restart” d oes not apply ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 20 BMD00098 , December 2009 Management Module/GbESM Connectivity Currently , the IBM management module is designed to provide one-way control of the GbESM. As a result, the GbESM may lose connectivity to the managem e nt module v ia the man agemen t port under the following conditions:  If new IP attributes are pushed ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 21

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 21 Secure Management Network The following GbESM attributes are reserved to p rovide secure m anagement access to and from the IBM managemen t mod ule: Internal management—  MG T1 (port 15) and MG T2 (port 16)  VLAN 4095  IP interface 128  Gateway 4  STG 128 For more information ...

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    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 22 BMD00098 , December 2009 Sp a nnin g T ree Con figuration Tip s T o ensure proper operation with s w itches that use Cisc o Per VLAN Spanning T ree (PVST+), you mus t do one of the follo win g :  Create a separate Spanning T ree Group f or each VLAN.  Manually add all associated VLANs into a single Spann ing T r ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 23

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 23 Known issues The follo wing are known issues f or BLA DEO S 5. 1 on the 1/10Gb Upl ink Ethernet Switch Mod ule. Access Control List s  When an Access Contr o l List (ACL) is installed on two diff erent ports, only one statistics counter will be av ailabl e. Th e GbESM d oes no t su ppo rt ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 24

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 24 BMD00098 , December 2009 Link Aggregation Control Prot ocol If a static trunk on a GbE SM is connected to ano ther GbESM with LACP configured (but no active LACP trunk), the /info/l2/trunk command migh t erroneously report the s tatic trunk as forwarding. Since LACP trunks use LACPDU packet to maintain trunking wit h t ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 25

    BLADE OS 5.1 Rel ease Notes BMD00098 , December 200 9 25 RADIUS with SSHv2 W ith RADIUS tu rned on, users migh t see a duplicate login promp t for SSHv2 clients , if the RADIUS server is too slow to respond or if the R A DIUS server is not available. In this case, users must re-ty pe the user na me an d passw ord t o logi n. RIP MIBs Due to backwar ...

  • Blade ICE BMD00098 - page 26

    BLADE OS 5.1 Release Notes 26 BMD00098 , December 2009 St rong Password Expiration If you configure a S trong Password with automatic expiration, the passwo rd might not expire if the system d ate an d t ime is not config ured f irst. Use o f a N etwork T i me P rotocol (N TP) se rver r esolv es this issue. Solution: When you configure a strong pas ...

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