Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hardware overview
- 3 Topology overview
- 4 Preparation
- 5 S4148U-ON switch configuration
- 6 S4148U-ON validation
- 7 Configure Unity FC storage
- 8 Configure storage on ESXi hosts
- 9 Configure ESXi hosts for LAN traffic
- A Validated components
- B Technical support and resources
- C Support and feedback
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1 Introduction
Our vision at Dell EMC is to be the essential infrastructure company in the data center for today’s applications
and for the cloud-native world we are entering. To attain that vision, the Dell EMC portfolio focuses on making
every component of data center infrastructure (servers, storage, and networking) compelling by making the
value of the integrated solution greater than the sum of the parts.
This guide provides a step-by-step deployment example of a Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network
(SAN) in a leaf-spine data center environment. Two Dell EMC Networking S4148U-ON switches running
OS10 are used as a leaf pair with Ethernet ports connected to Z9100-ON spine switches for production
TCP/IP traffic. The same leaf pair is also used in F_port mode for direct FC connections to a Dell EMC Unity
500F storage array and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connections to PowerEdge servers.
This guide includes configuration of the S4148U-ON leaf pair, VMware ESXi hosts, Converged Network
Adapters (CNAs), and Unity FC storage. The goal of this guide is to enable a network administrator or
deployment services engineer to deploy a pair of S4148U-ONs in a converged environment using the
hardware and software described.