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
● SmartFabric OS10
● OMNI
● VxRail Manager
● VMware vCenter
For more information regarding detailed deployment requirements, see the Deployment Guides for respective releases.
Supported switches
Following is the Dell EMC PowerSwitch typical roles in SFS with VxRail deployment.
Table 4. Switch roles in SFS
SmartFabric
Switches
Switch type (leaf or spine) VxRail node connectivity options
● S4112F-ON
● S4112T-ON
● S4128F-ON
● S4128T-ON
● S4148F-ON
● S4148T-ON
Leaf 10GbE
● S5212F-ON
● S5224F-ON
● S5248F-ON
● S5296F-ON
Leaf 10GbE or 25GbE
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 Spine —
Z9432F-ON Spine —
In VxRail deployment, any combination of the leaf and spine switches is possible with the exception that you must deploy
leaf switches in pairs. Each leaf switch in the pair must be the same model due to VLT requirements. SFS supports up to 20
switches and eight racks in the fabric.
SFS personalities
In SFS-enabled network, VxRail deployment option include L2 single rack or L3 multirack personalities. The table lists the
comparison between L2 and L3 fabric personalities:
Table 5. SFS personalities in VxRail deployment
L2 Single Rack personality L3 multi rack personality
Single rack network fabric is supported for VxRail clusters.
For new SFS deployments, use the L3 leaf and spine fabric
personality as the SFS L2 personality is deprecated.
Multi rack data center network fabric is supported that starts
with a L3 single rack (L3 fabric profile) and which you can
expand to a multi rack solution based on the demand.
Network fabric has two leaf switches in a single rack which
you cannot expand.
Network fabric has up to 20 switches in a leaf and spine
design that starts with a single rack which you can expand up
to eight racks.
All VxRail with SFS deployments from SmartFabric release
OS10.4.1.4 to OS10.5.0.5 support configuration with a single
pair of leaf switches for VxRail clusters.
All SmartFabric deployments with SmartFabric OS10.5.0.5 or
later.
Default uplink and jump host port are created as part of a
fabric initialization, which you cannot modify after enabling
SFS.
You can create uplinks and jump host port through SFS GUI or
OMNI after initial deployment.
38 SFS with VxRail