That's great!    Before putting them into service, make sure they have the current FW, put the iSCSI ports on their own VLAN, i.e. VLAN23.  Enable flowcontrol, and set the MTU size to 9216. See how this copy/pastes in:  Configuration and Setup for use in a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN  It is assumed that the initial configuration, admin account and password, enable password have already been configured.  Step 1: Creating a Separate VLAN for iSCSI traffic (VLAN 23)  Note: Dell EqualLogic recommends creating a separate vlan for iSCSI traffic as shown in this document.  Note: If switches are interconnected via an ISL/Trunk then the following steps & commands will need to be done on each individual switch.  PC1> enable  PC1# config  PC1 # vlan database ! Create VLAN 23 for iSCSI  PC1 # vlan 23  PC1 # exit  PC1 ip address vlan 23 ! Assign Mgmt IP address to VLAN 23  PC1 ip address 172.23.xxx.xxx 255.255.0.0 ! Assign IP / subnet mask  PC1 ip default-gateway 172.23.0.1 ! Assign Default Gateway  PC1 exit  PC1# copy running-config startup-config ! Save settings  PC1# show running ! Validate IP Address & Vlan 23   Step 2: Enable Flowcontrol  PC1#config  PC1 # flowcontrol ! System wide parameter  Step 3: Configuring a Range in ports for iSCSI connection  PC1 # interface range ethernet 1/g1-1/g48 ! Select ports 1-48 on switch 1  Note: You will need to do the range for each switch within the stack.  PC1 # spanning-tree disable ! Disable spanning-tree on all iSCSI (initiator !& target ports). If Spanning-tree is required !then set the ports as # spanning-tree !portfast .  PC1 # mtu 9216 ! enable jumbo frames, per port setting  PC1 # no storm-control unicast level ! Default is off. Show storm-control will give ! you the current settings  PC1 # switchport access vlan 23 ! Put all ports in VLAN 23 (1-48)  PC1 # exit  PC1 # exit  PC1# copy running-config startup-config ! Save current switch settings.  Step 4: Creating a port Channel-ISL connection between two PC 62xx series switches  (if required)  Note: Dell Support recommends that customers use stacking cables instead of a LAG trunk.  Note: Dell Support recommends spanning-tree be enabled on all LAG/Trunks  PC1 # interface range ethernet 1/g3-1/g6  PC1 # channel-group 1 mode auto  PC1 # exit  PC1 #  PC1 # interface port-channel 1  PC1 #flowcontrol on  PC1 #switchport mode general  PC1 #switchport general allowed vlan add 23 tagged ! iSCSI Vlan  PC1 #switchport general allowed vlan add 1 untagged ! MGMT vlan  PC1 #switchport general pvid 1  PC1 #spanning-tree portfast  PC1 #no shutdown  PC1 #exit  PC1 # exit  PC1# copy running-config startup-config ! Save current switch settings.  Note: This needs to be done on the 2nd switch that will be ISL/Trunked together.  Connect trunking cables as required.  Step 5: Validation of switch setup  The following commands will validate that you’ve correctly configured the PowerConnect 62xx series switches.  PC1># show running-config ! Print switches running config  PC1>#show stack-port ! Validate stacking cables  PC1>#show stack-port counters ! Check for errors on stacking cables  PC1>#show vlan ! Validate ports are in correct VLAN  PC1>#show interfaces status ! List status info on for each interface  PC1>#show interfaces switchport port-channel 1 ! List port-channel 1 status and setup  PC1>#show spanning-tree ! List spanning-tree setting on each port  PC1>#show storm-control all ! List port storm control settings 
Hi,   In my organization we have two Equallogic PS6000XV connected to two Powerconnect 5424 serving 3 VMWARE ESXI servers. We want to upgrade the switches to Two Powerconnect 5548 stacked with hdmi cables and add a third Equallogic PS6100 to the mix. Can the Powerconnect 5548 handle this configuration?  thanks in advance
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