Deployment Guide

When you select SmartFabric, the home page displays information about the SmartFabric domains being managed. This page also allows

you to update extensions if available. Information includes:

• Switch details that are part of the SmartFabric domain

• Operating system version

• Lifecycle status

• List of networks created

Monitoring

This information describes supported deployment, virtual standard switch (VSS), distributed virtual switch (DVS), and usage.

Supported deployment

A single SmartFabric instance manages up to 16 SmartFabric domains. You can register the SmartFabric instance with up to 10 separate

instances of vCenter that have the hosts that are connected to a managed SmartFabric domain.

Virtual standard switch

When you configure port groups of a VSS with VLANs, the respective active and standby physical adapter interfaces are automatically

configured by SmartFabric vCenter on the top of racks (ToRs) and uplink of the SmartFabric. This is shown as tasks on the registered

vCenter tasks pane. VLAN changes are reflected on the ToRs and SmartFabric Uplink seamlessly. Any unused VLANs in the domains

purge automatically.

NOTE:

Deleting port groups or the VSS itself will clear all unused VLANs from the SmartFabric.

Distributed virtual switch

When you configure port groups of a DVS with VLANs, the respective active and standby physical adapter interfaces of the hosts that

are part of the DVS are automatically configured by SmartFabric on the ToRs and SmartFabric Uplink. This is shown as tasks on the

registered vCenter tasks pane. Each host has a separate task that is created for this task. VLAN changes are reflected on the ToRs and

SmartFabric Uplink seamlessly. Any unused VLANs in the domains purge automatically.

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