Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- OpenManage Network Integration for SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 2.1
- Contents
- About this guide
- Change history
- Overview of OMNI, SFS, VxRail, and PowerEdge MX
- OpenManage Network Integration
- OMNI vCenter integration
- Access the OMNI stand-alone portal
- Access the OMNI Fabric Management Portal
- OMNI Appliance Management user interface
- SmartFabric management with OMNI
- OMNI feature support matrix
- View SmartFabric instance overview
- View fabric topology
- Manage switches in a fabric
- SmartFabric bulk configuration
- Configure server interface profile
- Configure and manage uplinks
- Configure networks and routing configuration
- Configure global settings for SmartFabric
- View fabric events and compliance status
- OMNI automation support for PowerEdge MX SmartFabric
- OMNI automation support for NSX-T
- Lifecycle management
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting tools
- Unable to add SmartFabric instance in OMNI
- Missing networks on server interfaces
- Unable to launch OMNI UI
- OMNI plug-in does not show service instance
- Unable to register the vCenter in OMNI
- OMNI is unable to communicate with other devices
- Timestamp not synchronized in OMNI
- Reset OMNI VM password
○ VxRail Manager automatically creates fabric policies for VxRail nodes.
○ SmartFabric automates all fabric functions.
● Integrated life cycle
○ Fabric creation, expansion, and maintenance follow the VxRail application model.
○ HCI fabric operations are fully managed through VxRail Manager or vCenter.
● Better infrastructure visibility
○ Tight integration between VxRail appliance and Dell EMC ON-Series PowerSwitches.
● Improved SLA
○ Fully validated software stack.
○ Protection from human-error due to predictable and repeatable HCI fabric experience.
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Enhanced support experience
○ World-class Dell EMC HCI and fabric services.
○ Fabric that is integrated into VxRail services and support experience.
Required components
● Dell EMC PowerSwitches supporting SmartFabric Services.
● Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 for PowerSwitch models.
● Dell EMC OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI).
● Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged nodes when deploying VxRail integrated solution.
● VMware vCenter internal to VxRail cluster or existing vCenter in customer environment.
See the SmartFabric OS10 Support Matrix for the latest software releases that support the VxRail and SmartFabric Service
integrated solution.
Supported switches
Table 4. Supported switches for VxRail-SFS
PowerSwitches Switch role VxRail node connectivity options
● S4112F-ON
● S4112T-ON
● S4128F-ON
● S4128T-ON
● S4148F-ON
● S4148T-ON
Leaf (top of rack) or spine 10 GbE
● S5212F-ON
● S5224F-ON
● S5248F-ON
● S5296F-ON
10 or 25 GbE
S5232F-ON Spine Can be used as a leaf switch with ports that are
connected to VxRail nodes broken out to 10GbE
or 25GbE
● Z9264F-ON
● Z9432F-ON
Spine —
S4248FB-ON, S4248FBL-ON switches are supported for solutions without VxRail.
PowerEdge MX integration
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX is a unified, high-performance data center infrastructure providing the agility, resiliency, and efficiency
to optimize a wide variety of traditional and new emerging data center workloads and applications. As part of the PowerEdge
MX platform, Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 includes SmartFabric Services which is fully integrated with the MX platform.
In MX platform, a SmartFabric is a logical entity that consists of a collection of physical resources, such as servers and switches,
and logical resources such as networks, templates, and uplinks. The OpenManage Enterprise - Modular (OME-M) console
provides a single interface to manage these resources as a single unit.
Overview of OMNI, SFS, VxRail, and PowerEdge MX
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