Deployment Guide

SmartFabric vCenter

The Dell EMC Open Manage Network Integration (OMNI) is an efficient REST API-based plug-in, which is integrated with VMware's

vCenter. The plugin enables vCenter to easily deploy and manage a large virtual network of VMs and physical underlay on a VxRail HCI

stack.

Using OMNI, day two operations and management of the hyperconverged fabric is a breeze. OMNI provides visibility into the virtual

environment and dynamic infrastructure configuration deployment.

Dell EMC fabric solutions for HCI

As hyperconverged domains scale, the network fabric becomes the critical piece of successful deployment. Dell EMC fabrics deliver:

• On-demand scalability — to remain competitive, the modern data center requires the capability to dynamically grow and shrink

based on business requirements. Dell EMC SmartFabrics and Dell EMC VxRail together provide an intelligent and capable architecture

that scales on-demand, and increases the efficiency of the data center.

• Increased availability at scale — robust and redundant fabrics and storage are an absolute necessity for today's data center. A

single failure should not cause a full-service interruption.

Dell EMC SmartFabric

SmartFabric is a one-of-a-kind feature, part of the Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 flagship networking operating system. SmartFabric

creates a fully integrated solution between the fabric and a hyperconverged domain infrastructure such as VxRail.

Customer can quickly and easily deploy and automate data center networking fabrics. SmartFabric enables faster time to production for

hyperconverged and private cloud environments — at any scale — while being fully interoperable with existing data center infrastructure.

With SmartFabric Services, customers can quickly and easily deploy and automate data center networking fabrics. This enables faster time

to production for hyperconverged and private cloud environments, at any scale while being fully interoperable with existing data center

infrastructure.

Dell EMC VxRail key benefits

Faster time production time

• Plug-and-play fabric formation for VxRail

• Define the fabric policy in VxRail Manager

• SmartFabric to automate all fabric functions

Integrated lifecycle

• Fabric creation, expansion, and maintenance follow VxRail appliance model

• HCI fabric operations fully managed through VxRail Manager/vCenter

Better infrastructure visibility

• Tight integration between VxRail appliance and switches

• Fabric connectivity extended to switches required for VxRail solutions only

Improved SLA

• Fully validated software stack recommendation

• Protection from human-error due to predictable and repeatable HCI fabric experience

Enhanced support experience

• World-class Dell EMC HCI and fabric services

• Fabric that is integrated into VxRail services and support experience

VxRail domain deployed with manual network configuration

In previous VxRail deployments, the HCI administrator used VxRail Manager to automate the domain deployment, and scale out lifecycle

management. vCenter is used to deploy applications and application networking. The physical network is manually configured and typically

requires a network administrator to configure the switches.

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