Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 1.0
- About this guide
- SFS fundamentals
- Setting up SFS
- Deploying and managing a fabric
- Access fabric setup options
- Update default fabric, switch names, and descriptions
- Create uplink for external network connectivity
- Breakout switch ports
- Configure jump host
- Update network configuration
- Onboard a server onto the fabric
- Edit default fabric settings
- Restore fabric configuration
- Manage network profiles
- Manage routing profiles
- Access fabric setup options
- SFS with VxRail
- SFS with PowerEdge MX
- SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric
- SFS commands
- smartfabric l3fabric enable
- smartfabric vlti
- show logging smartfabric
- show smartfabric cluster
- show smartfabric cluster member
- show smartfabric configured-server
- show smartfabric configured-server configured-server-interface
- show smartfabric details
- show smartfabric discovered-server
- show smartfabric discovered-server discovered-server-interface
- show smartfabric networks
- show smartfabric nodes
- show smartfabric personality
- show smartfabric uplinks
- show smartfabric upgrade-status
- show smartfabric validation-errors
- show switch-operating-mode
- Appendix
SFS with VxRail
SFS, used in leaf and spine network, creates a fully integrated solution between the fabric and a hyperconverged domain
infrastructure such as VxRail. When integrated with VxRail, SFS automates network setup, simplifying and accelerating the
deployment. Switches are automatically configured. When additional VxRail nodes are connected, the fabric identifies them as
VxRail nodes and automatically onboards the nodes to the required networks.
For more information regarding VxRail deployment-related documents, see Dell Technologies VxRail Networking Solutions.
Supported network topologies
See Supported topologies section for information regarding the topologies of SFS with VxRail deployments.
Hardware and software requirements
The requirements to deploy VxRail with SFS are as follows:
Hardware components
● VxRail nodes
● Dell EMC PowerSwitches
Software components
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