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
85 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
06:c3:f9:a4:cd:03 Eth 1/71/1 20:04:0f:00:ce:1d ~ 30
0e:fc:00:01:01:00 01:01:00 20:01:06:c3:f9:a4:cd:03 20:00:06:c3:f9:a4:cd:03
f4:e9:d4:73:d0:0c Eth 1/1/1 20:04:0f:00:ce:1d ~ 30
0e:fc:00:01:02:00 01:02:00 20:01:f4:e9:d4:73:d0:0c 20:00:f4:e9:d4:73:d0:00
Note: For more information on FC and FCoE, see the Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide.
9.7 SmartFabric Services – Troubleshooting commands
The following commands allow user to view various SmartFabric Services configuration information. These
commands can also be used as troubleshooting purpose on SmartFabric OS10.
These commands are available in OS10.5.0.1
9.7.1 show smartfabric personality
show smartfabric personality command is used on a node to view the personality of SmartFabric
Services configured. The possible values can be PowerEdge MX, Isilon, VxRail, L3 fabric.
9.7.2 show smartfabric cluster
show smartfabric cluster command is used to see if node is part of the cluster. This displays the
cluster information of the node such as node role, service, virtual ip address and node domain. It can also be
used to verify role of the node as either Backup or Master.
OS10# show smartfabric cluster
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CLUSTER DOMAIN ID : 50
VIP : fde1:53ba:e9a0:de14:0:5eff:fe00:150
ROLE : MASTER
SERVICE-TAG : CBJXLN2
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9.7.3 show smartfabric cluster member
show smartfabric cluster member command is used to see the member details of the cluster. This
displays the cluster member information such as service-tag, ip address, status, role, type of each node and
service tag of the chassis where the node belongs to.
OS10# show smartfabric cluster member
Service-tag IP Address Status Role
Type Chassis-Service-Tag Chassis-Slot
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CBJXLN2 fde1:53ba:e9a0:de14:2204:fff:fe00:cde7 ONLINE MASTER
MX5108n SKY002Z A1