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Hardware Reference Manual 

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Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2010 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. 
 
Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, Inspiron, Dell Precision, Dimension, OptiPlex, Latitude, PowerEdge, PowerVault, 
PowerApp,
 
PowerConnect, and Dell OpenManage are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Intel, Pentium, and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel...

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  vii
How this document is organized  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  vii
Supported hardware and software  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  vii
What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  vii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . ....

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Modifying the converged network switch IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the CMC CLI to set the IP address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the CMC GUI to set the IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the Dell M8428-k CLI to set the IP address. . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configuring for FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting the switch to the Ethernet...

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Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
KCC Statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
VCCI statement (Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
BSMI statement (Republic of Taiwan)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
CE statement  ....

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    vii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    vii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    vii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this 
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names 
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements 
Identifies keywords and operands 
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis 
Identifies variables 
Identifies paths...

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Notes, cautions, and warnings
The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of 
increasing severity of potential hazards. 
NOTE
A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference 
to related information.
ATTENTION
An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.
CAUTION
A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be...

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Additional information
This section lists additional industry-specific documentation that you might find helpful.
Industry resources
For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site 
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre 
Channel, storage management, and other applications:
http://www.t11.org
For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the...
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