Users Guide

4 Fabric Manager for XC Xpress User’s Guide | A02
1 About Fabric Manager
Fabric Manager is a network validation tool. Run the tool using your management workstation. This tool confirms if
your network switch is on the recommended switch list and confirms network configuration settings are ready to begin
deployment. Currently, this tool is only validated on a Windows workstation and for use with XC Xpress appliances.
Note: If Fabric Manager does not validate your switch, this may not mean your switch is unsupported by XC solutions.
It means that the following list of requirements must be manually in place for the switch to be validated.
Running this tool verifies the following necessary features are in place on your switch:
 Determines 1 G/10 G capability of the Top-Of-Rack(TOR) switch
 Determines switch models
 Determines switch/network IPv6 capabilities
 Determines if IPv6 is enabled
 Determines switch VLAN capabilities
 Checks for any VLANs configured
 Gathers VLAN mapping, if possible
 Gathers IP subnet information including routing
 Performs TCP/UDP port filter check on XC appliance (internal)
 Performs TCP/UDP port filter check on XC appliance (external)