DELL Technologies S4048-ON EMC PowerSwitch User Guide

DELL Technologies S4048-ON EMC PowerSwitch

This document contains information on open and resolved caveats, and operational information specific to the Dell Networking OS software and the S4048-ON platform.

• Current Release Version : 9.14(2.20)
• Release Date : 2023-04-14
• Previous Release Version : 9.14(2.18)

NOTE : This document may contain language that is not consistent with current guidelines of Dell Technologies. There are plans to update this document over subsequent releases to revise the language accordingly. Incorrect behavior or unexpected caveats are listed as the Problem Report (PR) numbers within the appropriate sections.

For more information on hardware and software features, commands, and capabilities, see the Dell Networking website at: https://www.dellemc.com/networking.

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Supported Hardware
The following hardware is supported with this platform:

Hardware

S4048-ON chassis
Forty eight SFP+ ports (10 Gbps)
Six QSFP+ ports (40 Gbps)
Two AC/DC PSUs
Three fan subsystems
One MicroUSB serial console port
One universal serial bus (USB Type-A) port for additional file storage
Management Ethernet interface
RS-232 Serial interface
Dual core 1.7GHz Rangeley central processing unit (CPU) system

NOTE : If all the three fan trays are found to be empty or faulty, the system shuts down after one minute.

Supported Software
The following software is supported with this platform:

NOTE : For information on non-Dell OS versions, refer the Release Notes for the Hardware Platform S4048–ON.

New Dell Networking OS Version 9.14(2.20) Features
The following features are integrated into the Dell Networking 9.14.2 branch through this release: None.

Restrictions

Prerequisite steps to upgrade the Dell Networking OS from earlier version to 9.14.2.0 or later:

1. Uninstall the older version of the Open Automation (OA) package
2. Upgrade the Dell Networking OS to 9.14.2.0 or later version
3. Install the 9.14.2.0 version or later of the OA packages :
4. a. SmartScripts
5. b. Puppet
6. c. Open management infrastructure (OMI)
7. d. SNMP MIB

Prerequisite steps to downgrade the Dell Networking OS from 9.14.2.0 or later to the earlier version:

1. Uninstall the 9.14.2.0 or later version of the OA package
2. Downgrade the Dell Networking OS to an earlier version
3. Install the respective OA package from an earlier version

For more information about installing, uninstalling and upgrading the Dell Networking OS and OA package, refer the respective Dell System Release Notes. If you downgrade the Dell Networking OS version from 9.14.2.20 to 9.11.0.0 or any older versions, the system displays the following error message even though there is no functional impact:

Before downgrading, save the current configuration and then remove the CDB files (confd_cdb.tar.gz.version and confd_cdb.tar.gz). To remove the files, use the following steps

• In a VXLAN scenario, hybrid port is not supported.
• While deploying the system in the normal-reload mode in BMP configuration, use the ip ssh server enable command at the beginning of the startup configuration if the write memory command is used at the end of the configuration.
• REST API does not support AAA authentication.
• The following features are not available in the Dell Networking OS:
  • PIM ECMP
  • Static IGMP join (ip igmp static-group)
  • IGMP querier timeout configuration (ip igmp querier-timeout)
  • IGMP group join limit (ip igmp group join-limit)
• You can use the negotiation auto command to turn auto-negotiation on or off only on fiber interfaces operating at 1G speed.
• If you use a 1 G SFP, disable autonegotiation on both peer ends. If you do not disable autonegotiation, the link does not come up.
• If you use the interface range command to select multiple interfaces that are added to the management VRF, the ipv6 address command does not display the autoconfig option. You can configure the autoconfig command on individual interfaces.
• If you use the interface range command to select multiple interfaces that are added to the management VRF, the ipv6 nd command displays the following options but they do not take effect if you use them:
  • dns-server
  • hop-limit
  • managed-config-flag
  • max-ra-interval
  • mtu
  • other-config-flag
  • prefix
  • ra-guard
  • ra-lifetime
  • reachable-time
  • retrans-timer
  • suppress-ra
• When FRRP is enabled in a VLT domain, no flavor of Spanning tree should concurrently be enabled on the nodes of that specific VLT domain. In essence FRRP and xSTP should not co-exist in a VLT environment.
• Do not configure the vxlan-instance command on the port, which is configured with the portmode hybrid command. Do not configure the vxlan-instance enabled port as a member of VLAN, which does not have VXLAN-VNI configuration.

Changes to Default Behavior and CLI Syntax
The following behavior and CLI changes are applicable to the S4048–ON switch with Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20):

Documentation Corrections
This section describes the errors identified in the current release of the Dell Networking OS. The router bgp command allows you to configure only one L3 interface with an IPv4 address. The Configuration guide does not mention this limitation and will be corrected in the next release of the guide.

Deferred Issues
Issues that appear in this section were reported in Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.0) as open, but have since been deferred. Deferred caveats are those that are found to be invalid, not reproducible, or not scheduled for resolution. Deferred issues are reported using the following definitions.

Category Description

• PR# Problem Report number that identifies the issue
• Severity
  • S1 — Crash: A software crash occurs in the kernel or a running process that requires a restart of AFM, the router, switch, or process.
  • S2 — Critical : An issue that renders the system or a major feature unusable, which can have a pervasive impact on the system or network, and for which there is no work-around acceptable to the customer.
  • S3 — Major : An issue that affects the functionality of a major feature or negatively effects the network for which there exists a work-around that is acceptable to the customer.
  • S4 — Minor : A cosmetic issue or an issue in a minor feature with little or no network impact for which there might be a work-around
• Synopsis Synopsis is the title or short description of the issue.
• Release Notes Release Notes description contains more detailed information about the issue.
• Work around Work around describes a mechanism for circumventing, avoiding, or recovering from the issue. It might not be a permanent solution. Issues listed in the “Closed Caveats” section should not be present, and the work-around is unnecessary, as the version of code for which this release note is documented has resolved the caveat.

Deferred S4048–ON 9.14(2.0) Software Issues
Issues that appear in this section were reported in Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.0) as open, but have since been deferred. Deferred caveats are those that are found to be invalid, not reproducible, or not scheduled for resolution. The following issues have been deferred in the Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.0): None.

Fixed Issues

Fixed issues are reported using the following definitions.

Category Description

• PR# Problem Report number that identifies the issue
• Severity
  • S1 — Crash: A software crash occurs in the kernel or a running process that requires a restart of AFM, the router, switch, or process.
  • S2 — Critical : An issue that renders the system or a major feature unusable, which can have a pervasive impact on the system or network, and for which there is no work-around acceptable to the customer.
  • S3 — Major : An issue that affects the functionality of a major feature or negatively effects the network for which there exists a work-around that is acceptable to the customer.
  • S4 — Minor : A cosmetic issue or an issue in a minor feature with little or no network impact for which there might be a work-around.
• Synopsis Synopsis is the title or short description of the issue.
• Release Notes Release Notes description contains more detailed information about the issue.
• Work around Work around describes a mechanism for circumventing, avoiding, or recovering from the issue. It might not be a permanent solution. Issues listed in the “Closed Caveats” section should not be present, and the work-around is unnecessary, as the version of code for which this release note is documented has resolved the caveat.

Fixed S4048–ON 9.14(2.20) Software Issues

NOTE : Dell Networking OS 9.14(2.20) includes fixes for caveats addressed in the previous 9.14 releases. Refer to the respective release notes documentation for the list of caveats fixed in the earlier 9.14 releases. The following caveats have been fixed in Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20):

PR# 170395

• Severity : Sev 2
• Synopsis : In certain scenarios, MAC addresses previously learned are re-initialized to zero when some CAM table entries are modified resulting in ping failure.
• Release Notes : In certain scenarios, MAC addresses previously learned are re-initialized to zero when some CAM table entries are modified resulting in ping failure.
• Workaround : None

Known Issues
Known issues are reported using the following definitions.

Category Description

• PR# Problem Report number that identifies the issue.
• Severity
  • S1 — Crash: A software crash occurs in the kernel or a running process that requires a restart of AFM, the router, switch, or process.
  • S2 — Critical : An issue that renders the system or a major feature unusable, which can have a pervasive impact on the system or network, and for which there is no work-around acceptable to the customer.
  • S3 — Major : An issue that affects the functionality of a major feature or negatively effects the network for which there exists a work-around that is acceptable to the customer.
  • S4 — Minor : A cosmetic issue or an issue in a minor feature with little or no network impact for which there might be a work-around.
• Synopsis Synopsis is the title or short description of the issue.
• Release Notes Release Notes description contains more detailed information about the issue.
• Work around Work around describes a mechanism for circumventing, avoiding, or recovering from the issue. It might not be a permanent solution. Issues listed in the “Closed Caveats” section should not be present, and the work-around is unnecessary, as the version of code for which this release note is documented has resolved the caveat.

Known S4048–ON 9.14(2.20) Software Issues
The following caveats are open in Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20): None

Upgrading the sub-components

It is recommended to upgrade the sub-components in the following order and reload the switch where necessary, before proceeding with the next sub- component upgrade.

1. Upgrade the BIOS or Boot-selector – using the upgrade boot bootselector-image stack-unit 1 booted command.
2. Upgrade the GRUB or Bootflash – using the upgrade boot bootflash-image stack-unit 1 booted command.
3. Upgrade the CPLD – using the upgrade fpga-image system cpld stack-unit 1 booted command.

Upgrade the BIOS or Boot Selector
To upgrade the BIOS or Boot Selector from Dell Networking OS, perform the following steps:

1. Upgrade the S4048-ON Boot Selector image. EXEC Privilege Mode Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20) requires S4048-ON Boot Selector image version or higher. The booted option is used to upgrade the Boot Selector image to the image version packed with the loaded Dell Networking OS image. The Boot Selector image version packed with the loaded Dell Networking OS can be found using the show os-version command in EXEC Privilege mode.
2. Reload the unit. EXEC Privilege Mode reload
3. Verify the Boot Selector image. EXEC Privilege Mode show system stack-unit

Upgrade the GRUB or Boot Flash
To upgrade the GRUB or Boot Flash from Dell Networking OS, perform the following steps: Upgrade the S4048-ON Boot Flash image. EXEC Privilege Mode upgrade boot bootflash-image stack-unit [ | all] [booted | flash: | ftp: | scp: | tftp: | usbflash:]

Upgrade the CPLD
The S4048-ON system with Dell Networking OS Version 9.14(2.20) requires System CPLD revision 15.2, Master CPLD revision 12, and Slave CPLD revision 5.

NOTE : If your CPLD revisions are higher than the ones shown here, DO NOT make any changes. If you have questions regarding the CPLD revision, contact technical support

Verify that a CPLD upgrade is required
Use the following command to identify the CPLD version

Use the following command to view CPLD version that is associated with the Dell Networking OS image:

Upgrading the CPLD Image

NOTE : The upgrade fpga-image stack-unit 1 booted command is hidden when using the FPGA Upgrade feature in the CLI. However, it is a supported command and will be accepted when entered as documented.

NOTE : Ensure that the BIOS version is . You can verify this version using show system stack-unit 1 command.

To upgrade the CPLD image on S4048-ON, follow these steps:

1. Upgrade the CPLD image. EXEC Privilege Mode upgrade fpga-image stack-unit booted

2. Power cycle the system physically. Switch off the system by unplugging the power chords from the REAR PSUs and wait until the PSU FAN–REAR STATUS LED is completely OFF.
   NOTE : Do not switch on the system with PSU–REAR LED glowing AMBER. You can alternatively power cycle the switch using the power-cycle stack-unit <1-6> command as follows:

3. The CPLD version can be verified using show revision command output: EXEC Privilege Mode show revision

NOTE : Do not power off the system while FPGA upgrade is in progress. For any queries, contact technical support.

Upgrading ONIE on the S4048-ON
To upgrade the ONIE package you have installed, use one of the following two processes: zero touch (dynamic) update or manual update.

1. Zero touch (dynamic): Copy the updated ONIE installer and the DIAG installer for your system to the TFTP/HTTP server. Configure the DHCP options using the ONIE specifications shown at the following link: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie/wiki/Design-Spec-SW-Image-Discovery. S4048-ON image >>>> onie-updater-x86_64-dell_s4000_c2338-r0.
2. Manual: Copy the image onto the TFTP/HTTP servers and boot ONIE. Update the ONIE using the onie-self-update command, then download and run an ONIE updater image.The supported URL types are: HTTP, FTP, TFTP, and FILE. S4048-ON image >>>> onie-updater-x86_64-dell_s4000_c2338-r0.
3. UPGRADING ONIE ON AN EXISTING S4048–ON SYSTEM. The following example uses HTTP to upgrade ONIE.
4. Upgrade the DIAG installer package NOTE : For the latest diagnostics version, see the Dell S4048–Open Networking (ON) System Release Notes.
5. Upgrade the BIOS image using the BIOS image and Flashrom utility included with the diagnostic package.

Upgrading the S4048-ON Dell Networking OS Image using the Dell Networking OS CLI

NOTE : If you are upgrading from Dell Networking OS version 9.9(0.0P18) or earlier, you cannot directly upgrade to version 9.14(2.20) or above. Upgrade to version 9.10(0.0) or above first and then upgrade to the required version.

Bare Metal Provisioning
If you are using Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP), see the Bare Metal Provisioning topic in the Dell Networking OS Configuration Guide or the Open Automation Guide

Manual Upgrade Procedure
Follow these steps carefully to upgrade your S4048-ON systems:

1. Dell Networking recommends that you back up your startup configuration and any important files and directories to an external media prior to upgrading the system.
2. Upgrade the Dell Networking OS in flash partition A: or B: EXEC Privilege Mode upgrade system [flash: | ftp: stack-unit <1-6> | tftp: | scp: | usbflash:] [A: | B:]
3. Verify that the Dell Networking OS has been upgraded correctly in the upgraded flash partition EXEC Privilege Mode show boot system stack-unit [1-6] | all]
4. Change the Primary Boot Parameter of the S4048-ON to the upgraded partition A: or B: CONFIGURATION Mode boot system stack-unit 1 primary system: [A: | B: | tftp: | ftp:]
5. Save the configuration so that the configuration will be retained after a reload using write memory command. EXEC Privilege Mode write memory
6. Reload the unit. EXEC Privilege Mode reload
7. Verify the S4048 ON has been upgraded to the Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20). EXEC Privilege Mode show version

Installing Dell Networking OS on the S4048-ON using ONIE

NOTE : The Dell Networking OS installer package, ONIE-FTOS- SK-9.14.2.20.bin, is required for installing Dell Networking OS on S4048-ON that has only ONIE.

To install the Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20) on to the new S4048-ON device, perform the following steps:

1. Boot the system to the ONIE prompt.The following ONIE prompt appears: ONIE:/ #

2. Stop the ONIE discovery process using the following command: ONIE:/ # onie-discovery-stop The following message appears

3. Configure an interface and assign an IP address to that interface using the following command:

4. Enter the following command to begin the installation process
   NOTE : After the Dell Networking OS installation is complete, the system automatically reboots.
   Following is the installation and boot log of Dell Networking OS:

5. After the installation completes, the system displays the following DELL prompt: DellEMC>

Uninstalling Dell Networking OS from the S4048-ON

To uninstall the Dell Networking OS version 9.14(2.20) from the S4048-ON device, perform the following steps:

1. Reboot the system. During the reboot process, the system displays the following message prompting you to press the Esc key in order to stop the auto-boot process:

2. At this prompt message, press the ESC key. The following menu appears:

3. From the menu, choose the ONIE option.
   NOTE : To choose an option from the menu, highlight one of the options using the up or down arrow key and press Enter. The following menu appears

4. From this menu, choose the ONIE : Uninstall OSoption.
   NOTE : To choose an option from the menu, highlight one of the options using the up or down arrow key and press Enter. The uninstall process begins. Following is the log generated by the system while Dell Networking OS 9.14(2.20) uninstalls

5. After the installation completes, the system displays the following ONIE prompt: ONIE:/ #

Support Resources
The following support resources are available for the S4048–ON system.

Documentation Resources
This document contains operational information specific to the S4048–ON system. For information about using the S4048–ON, refer to the following documents at http://www.dell.com/support:

• Installing the S4048-ON System
• Quick Start Guide
• Dell Networking Command Line Reference Guide for the S4048-ON System
• Dell Networking Configuration Guide for the S4048-ON System

For more information about hardware features and capabilities, refer to the Dell Networking website at https://www.dellemc.com/networking. For more information about the open network installation environment (ONIE)-compatible third-party operating system, refer to http://onie.org.

Issues
Issues are unexpected or incorrect behavior and are listed in order of Problem Report (PR) number within the appropriate sections

Finding Documentation
This document contains operational information specific to the S4048–ON system.

• For information about using the S4048–ON, refer to the documents at http://www.dell.com/support.
• For more information about hardware features and capabilities, refer to the Dell Networking website at https://www.dellemc.com/networking.
• For more information about the open network installation environment (ONIE)-compatible third-party operating system, refer to http://onie.org.

Contacting Dell

NOTE : If you do not have an active Internet connection, you can find contact information on your purchase invoice, packing slip, bill, or Dell product catalog.

Dell provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. Availability varies by country and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact Dell for sales, technical support, or customer service issues: Go to www.dell.com/support.

Notes, cautions, and warnings

• NOTE : A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.
• CAUTION : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
• WARNING : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

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References

• Computers, Monitors & Technology Solutions | Dell USA
• Support | Dell US
• Dell Networking Solutions | Dell USA
• GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub
• Dell Networking Solutions | Dell USA

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