Users Guide

6 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
1 Introduction
Our vision at Dell EMC is to be the essential infrastructure company from the edge, to the core, and to the
cloud. Dell EMC Networking ensures modernization for today’s applications and for the emerging cloud-native
world. Dell EMC is committed to disrupting the fundamental economics of the market with an open strategy
that gives you the freedom of choice for networking operating systems and top-tier merchant silicon. The Dell
EMC strategy enables business transformations that maximize the benefits of collaborative software and
standards-based hardware, including lowered costs, flexibility, freedom, and security. Dell EMC provides
further customer enablement through validated deployment guides which demonstrate these benefits while
maintaining a high standard of quality, consistency, and support.
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX is a unified, high-performance data center infrastructure. PowerEdge MX
provides the agility, resiliency, and efficiency to optimize a wide variety of traditional and new, emerging data
center workloads and applications. With its kinetic architecture and agile management, PowerEdge MX
dynamically configures compute, storage, and fabric, increases team effectiveness, and accelerates
operations. The responsive design delivers the innovation and longevity that customers need for their IT and
digital business transformations.
As part of the PowerEdge MX platform, the Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 network operating system includes
SmartFabric Services. SmartFabric Services is a network automation and orchestration solution that is fully
integrated with the MX Platform.
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis