Users Guide

Hardware overview
8 Dell EMC Networking OS9 Switch Configuration Guide for VxRail 4.5
2 Hardware overview
This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate this deployment. Appendix A contains a complete
listing of hardware and software validated for this guide.
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S5048F-ON
The S5048F-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU), multilayer switch with 48x25GbE, and 6x100GbE or 72x25GbE ports.
This guide uses two S5048F-ONs as leaf switches.
Dell EMC Networking S5048F-ON
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
The S3048-ON is a 1-RU switch with 48x1GbE BASE-T ports and 4x10GbE SFP+ ports. This guide uses one
S3048-ON switch for out-of-band (OOB) management traffic.
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
2.3 Dell EMC VxRail 14G nodes
Current Dell EMC VxRail P, V, S, and E Series nodes are built on 14
th
generation (14G) PowerEdge servers.
2.3.1 Dell EMC VxRail P Series node
VxRail P Series nodes are ideal for CPU-intensive workloads such as databases. P Series nodes support up
to 44 CPU cores, 1536GB memory, and 24TB hybrid or 46TB all-flash storage in a 2-RU form factor.
Dell EMC VxRail 2-RU node (P, V, or S Series)
Note: The deployment examples in this guide use a VxRail cluster consisting of four P570 nodes.