Configuring Extreme Switches - Useful Commands

Restore to factory:

• unconfig switch all

Restore to factory but retain configured user accounts and passwords

• unconfig switch

Initial configuration

Default username = admin 

No password

Change admin password

• conf account admin

List saved config

• show config

Add a VLAN (name is case sensitive)

• create vlan "name"
• conf vlan "name" tag "tag number"

Remove a VLAN

• delete vlan "name"

Configure IP address for switch management - mask must be in decimal form, not CIDR

• conf vlan "name" ipaddress "ip" "mask"

Configure default gateway

• conf iproute add default "gateway address"

Change hostname

• conf snmp sysname "name"
• conf snmp syslocation "location"

Generate SSH key - changing hostname requires a new key to be generated

• enable SSH2

Add a VLAN to a port

• conf vlan "name" add port port number (tagged)

Remove a VLAN from a port

• conf vlan "name" del port port number

View VLAN port information

• show port port number in de

Show port based on MAC address

• show fdb "MAC address"

Add an electronic display name to a port

• conf port "port number" display-string "text"

Remove an electronic display name from a port

• conf port "port number" display-string ""

View the MAC address plugged into a port

• show fdb port "port number"

Desktop Replacement - Physical, RDS or VDI?

Having recently gone through the decision making process for replacing our existing desktop infrastructure, I put together a list of considerations/questions that helped me to make a recommendation for our new desktops.

I've grouped the questions under rough headings - the list is not exhaustive, simply the questions I asked;

Applications

What applications do the users need to run?

Do those applications lend themselves to being run in a datacentre?
Can the application run in a terminal server environment?

Application Virtualisation

Is it technically possible to virtualise/stream the apps?
Does everyone need the app or is it only some users?
Does the application need to access locally stored data?
Does the application need to integrate with other applications? If so, where are they?
Does data need to stay off the client device?

Costs

What licencing is required? How much will it cost?
What end-user equipment is required? Are there different options? How much will it cost?
What back-end equipment is required? Are there different options? How much will it cost?

Support

What difficulties are there in providing remote support to users?
What potential end-user hardware issues are there? (Device fails/user reset to factory)

Long Term

How often will we need to refresh the hardware?
How will we go about software updates and patching?

Network

In a multi-site environment, are the network links between sites able to support everything we want the infrastructure to do?