Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition Version 1.00.10 for PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis User's Guide
- Overview
- Updating the management module firmware
- Logging in to OME-Modular
- Logging in to OME–Modular as local, Active Directory, or LDAP user
- OME-Modular home page
- Viewing device health
- Setting up chassis
- Initial configuration
- Configuring chassis settings
- Managing chassis
- Chassis groups
- Controlling chassis power
- Backing up chassis
- Restoring chassis
- Exporting chassis profiles
- Managing chassis failover
- Troubleshooting in chassis
- Blinking LEDs
- Interfaces to access OME-Modular
- Viewing chassis hardware
- Viewing chassis alerts
- Viewing chassis hardware logs
- Configuring OME–Modular
- Managing compute sleds
- Managing Storage
- Managing templates
- Managing identity pools
- Ethernet IO Modules
- MX scalable fabric architecture
- SmartFabric Services
- Managing networks
- Managing Fibre Channel IOMs
- Managing firmware
- Monitoring alerts and logs
- Monitoring audit logs
- Troubleshooting
- Storage
- Firmware update is failing
- Storage assignment is failing
- SAS IOM status is downgraded
- SAS IOM health is downgraded
- Drives on compute sled are not visible
- Storage configuration cannot be applied to SAS IOMs
- Drives in OpenManage are not visible
- iDRAC and OpenManage drive information do not match
- The assignment mode of storage sled is unknown
- Storage
- Recommended slot configurations for IOMs
Guidelines for operating in SmartFabric mode
The guidelines and restrictions while operating in SmartFabric mode are as follows:
● When operating with multiple chassis, ensure that switches in A1/A2 or B1/B2 in one chassis are interconnected only with
other A1/A2 or B1/B2 switches respectively. Connecting switches that are placed in slots A1/A2 in one chassis with switches
in slots B1/B2 in another chassis is not supported.
● Uplinks must be symmetrical. If one switch in a SmartFabric has two uplinks, the other switch must have two uplinks of the
same speed.
● Enable LACP on the uplink ports for switches being uplinked.
● You cannot have a pair of switches in SmartFabric mode uplink to another pair of switches in SmartFabric mode. You can
only uplink a SmartFabric to a pair of switches in Full Switch mode.
● Ensure that server NICs are in an LACP LAG when connected to IOMs in SmartFabric mode.
SmartFabric network topologies
The SmartFabric Services support three network topologies with specific IOM placement requirements.
● 2 x MX9116n Fabric Switching Engines in different chassis
● 2 x MX5108n Ethernet Switches in the same chassis
● 2 x MX9116n Fabric Switching Engines in the same chassis
2 x MX9116n Fabric Switching Engines in separate chassis
This placement is recommended while creating a SmartFabric on top of a scalable fabric architecture. This configuration
supports placement in Chassis1/A1 and Chassis 2/A2 or Chassis1/B1 and Chassis 2/B2. A SmartFabric cannot include a switch in
Fab A and a switch in Fab B. If one of the chassis fails, placing the FSE modules in separate chassis provides redundancy. Both
the chassis must be in the same MCM group.
2 x MX5108n Ethernet Switches in the same chassis
The MX5108n Ethernet Switch is supported only in single chassis configurations. The switches must be placed in slots A1/A2 or
slots B1/B2. A SmartFabric cannot include a switch in Fab A and a switch in Fab B.
SmartFabric Services
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