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69 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
A Hardware supported in this document
This section covers the rack-mounted networking switches supported by the examples in this guide.
For detailed information about the hardware components related to the MX platform, see the Dell EMC
PowerEdge MX Networking Architecture Guide.
A.1 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON management switch
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU) switch with forty-eight 1GbE BASE-T ports and
four 10GbE SFP+ ports. In this document, one S3048-ON supports out-of-band (OOB) management traffic for
all examples.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON
A.2 Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine (FSE)
The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine (FSE) is a scalable, high-performance, low
latency 25 GbE switch purpose-built for the PowerEdge MX platform. In addition to sixteen internal 25GbE
ports, MX9116n FSE also provides two 100GbE QSFP28 ports, two 100 GbE QSFP28 unified ports and
twelve 2x100GbE QSFP-28 Double Density (DD) ports. In this document, two MX9116n FSEs are used as IO
modules connected to the Nexus leaf switches.
Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine
A.3 Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Ethernet switch
The Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Ethernet switch is targeted at small PowerEdge MX7000 deployments of
one or two chassis. While not a scalable switch, it still provides high-performance and low latency with a non-
blocking switching architecture. In addition to eight internal 25 GbE ports, the MX5108n provides one 40GbE
QSFP+ port, two 100GbE QSFP28 ports, four 10GbE RJ45 BASE-T ports. In this document, two MX5108n
may be used as IO modules connected to the Nexus leaf switches.
Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Ethernet switch