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Deployment of Dell M6348 Blade Switch with Cisco 4900M Catalyst Switch Page 2

SUMMARY

Adding a Dell™ PowerConnect™ blade (M-Series) switch, within a Dell PowerEdge™

M1000e modular blade enclosure, to an external Cisco Catalyst Switch is a straightforward

process. The addition of Simple Switch Mode on the Dell PowerConnect™ Blade switch

further simplifies the process, allowing integration into existing network with minimal effort.

This document is part of the Simple Connect campaign that includes both Simple Connect

for SAN and Simple Connect for LAN –targeted at today’s Fibre Channel (FC) SAN and

Ethernet LAN environments and meant to serve as a supplemental guide on how to

interconnect equipment within the Data Center.

This document provides an easy to use step-by-step guide on how to configure and deploy

the DELL™ M-Series 1Gbit/s Blade Switch (M6348) (Figure 1) with a Cisco Catalyst 4900M

Switch.

Figure 1: The Dell PowerConnect™ M6348 switch

Simple Switch Mode

Simple Switch Mode, or SSM, allows server administrators (even those with minimum

networking expertise) the ability to deploy a loop-free switching solution without having to

configure the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) or worry about STP compatibility or interaction

with the existing environment.

The primary advantages of deploying SSM are:

• Port Aggregation is easy to configure. Simply group internal ports and associate with

external ports, assign VLANs (if required), and it’s ready to go.

• Automatic configuration of the external ports into a Link Aggregation Control

Protocol (LACP) trunk group.

• Providing loop-free topologies without using STP.

• Port Aggregation is completely interoperable. Dynamic (via LACP) and static link

aggregation is supported on the external ports.

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