Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 SmartFabric Services for PowerEdge MX: An overview
- 3 SmartFabric mode requirements, guidelines, and restrictions
- 3.1 Create multi-chassis management group
- 3.2 Upstream network requirements
- 3.3 VLAN scaling guidelines
- 3.4 Configuring port speed and breakout
- 3.5 Switch slot placement for SmartFabric mode
- 3.6 Switch-to-Switch cabling
- 3.7 NIC teaming guidelines
- 3.8 Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) behavior
- 3.9 Other restrictions and guidelines
- 4 Creating a SmartFabric
- 4.1 Physically cable MX chassis and upstream switches
- 4.2 Define VLANs
- 4.3 Create the SmartFabric
- 4.4 Configure uplink port speed or breakout, if needed
- 4.5 Create Ethernet uplink
- 4.6 Configure Fibre Channel universal ports
- 4.7 Create Fibre Channel uplinks
- 4.8 Configuring the upstream switch and connect uplink cables
- 5 Deploying a server
- 6 SmartFabric operations
- 7 Switch operations
- 8 Validating the SmartFabric deployment
- 9 SmartFabric troubleshooting
- 9.1 Troubleshooting errors encountered for port group breakout
- 9.2 Troubleshooting Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- 9.3 Verify VLT/vPC configuration on upstream switches
- 9.4 Discovery of FEM and compute sleds
- 9.5 Troubleshooting uplink errors
- 9.6 Troubleshooting FC/FCoE
- 9.7 SmartFabric Services – Troubleshooting commands
- 10 Uplink configuration scenarios
- 10.1 Scenario 1 - SmartFabric deployment with Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9100-ON upstream switches
- 10.2 Scenario 2 - SmartFabric connected to Cisco Nexus 3232C switches
- 10.3 Scenario 3: Connect MX9116n FSE to Fibre Channel storage - NPIV Proxy Gateway mode
- 10.4 Scenario 4: Connect MX9116n FSE to Fibre Channel storage - FC Direct Attach
- 10.5 Scenario 5: Connect MX5108n to Fibre Channel storage - FSB
- 10.6 Scenario 6: Configure Boot from SAN
- A Hardware used in this document
- B Dell EMC Unity information
- C Additional information
- D Validated components
- E Technical resources
- F Support and feedback
7 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
B.1 Determine Unity 500F storage array FC WWPNs .......................................................................................... 116
B.2 CNA FCoE port WWPNs ................................................................................................................................ 117
B.3 Configure Unity FC storage ............................................................................................................................ 118
B.3.1 Create a storage pool ..................................................................................................................................... 118
B.3.2 Add hosts ........................................................................................................................................................ 119
B.3.3 Create LUNs and configure host access ........................................................................................................ 119
C Additional information ............................................................................................................................................... 121
C.1 Delete MCM group.......................................................................................................................................... 121
C.2 Reset chassis using RACADM ....................................................................................................................... 121
C.3 Reset SmartFabric OS10 switch to factory defaults ....................................................................................... 121
C.4 Reset Cisco Nexus 3232C to factory defaults ................................................................................................ 121
C.5 Connect to IO Module console port via RACADM .......................................................................................... 122
D Validated components .............................................................................................................................................. 123
D.1 Scenarios 1 and 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 123
D.1.1 Dell EMC PowerSwitches ............................................................................................................................... 123
D.1.2 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis and components ............................................................................. 123
D.1.3 Cisco Nexus switches ..................................................................................................................................... 124
D.2 Scenarios 3 and 4 ........................................................................................................................................... 124
E Technical resources ................................................................................................................................................. 125
F Support and feedback .............................................................................................................................................. 126