Users Guide

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In MX platform, SFS provides:
A single pane of glass to monitor and manage the lifecycle operations on the IOMs.
APIs to manage VLT fabric, data uplinks, storage uplinks, and server templates for the entire fabric.
In a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 infrastructure, the MX9116n fabric engine and MX5108n Ethernet switch support SFS.
For more information about the SmartFabric for the PowerEdge MX platform , see PowerEdge MX Ethernet I/O modules.
SmartFabric Services for leaf and spine
SFS discovers and automates the OS10 switches to build a Layer 2 or Layer 3 network fabric. SFS forms a cluster of OS10 switches
belong to a domain. A domain is a LAN segment on which all the OS10 nodes are accessible. All the OS10 switches must be on the same
domain for the cluster to form. SFS provides APIs including managing fabric, node inventory, fabric operations, server and onboarding
storage devices. SFS provides APIs for collecting discovered servers and storage device inventory.
Prerequisites
Supported platforms
S4112F-ON, S4112T-ON
S4128F-ON, S4128T-ON
S4148F-ON, S4148FE-ON, S4148T-ON, S4148U-ON
SmartFabric Services
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