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
73 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
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8.4.5 show qos system
The show qos system command displays the QoS configuration applied to the system. The command is
useful to verify the service policy created manually or automatically by a SmartFabric deployment.
C140A1# show qos system
Service-policy (input): PM_VLAN
ETS Mode : off
8.4.6 show policy-map
Using the service policy from show qos system, the show policy-map type qos PM_VLAN
command displays QoS policy details including associated class maps, for example, CM10, and QoS queue
settings, qos-group 2.
C140A1# show policy-map type qos PM_VLAN
Service-policy (qos) input: PM_VLAN
Class-map (qos): CM10
set qos-group 2
8.4.7 show class-map
The command show class-map displays details for all the configured class-maps. For example, the
association between CM10 and VLAN 10 is shown.
C140A1# show class-map
Class-map (application): class-iscsi
Class-map (qos): class-trust
Class-map (qos): CM10(match-any)
Match: mac vlan 10
Class-map (qos): CM2(match-any
8.4.8 show vlt domain-id
The show vlt domain-id command validates the VLT configuration status. The role of one switch in
the VLT pair is primary (not shown), and its peer switch is assigned the secondary role. The VLT domain ID of
255 is automatically configured in SmartFabric mode. The VLTi link Status and VLT Peer Status must both be
up. SmartFabric automatically configures the VLTi as port channel 1000.
MX9116n-1# show vlt 255
Domain ID : 255
Unit ID : 1
Role : secondary