Setup Guide

11 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
2 SmartFabric Services for PowerEdge MX overview
2.1 Dell EMC OS10 Enterprise Edition
The networking market is transitioning from a closed, proprietary stack to open hardware supporting a variety
of operating systems. OS10 is designed to allow multi-layered disaggregation of the network functionality.
While OS10 contributions to Open Source provide users freedom and flexibility to pick their own third party
networking, monitoring, management and orchestration applications, OS10 Enterprise Edition (OS10EE)
bundles industry hardened networking stack featuring standard L2 and L3 protocols over a standard and well
accepted CLI interface.
OS10 High Level Architecture
2.2 Operating modes
The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n FSE and MX5108n operate in one of two modes:
1. Full Switch mode (Default) – All switch-specific OS10EE capabilities are available
2. SmartFabric mode – Switches operate as layer 2 I/O aggregation fabric and are managed through
the Open Manage Enterprise Modular console
The following OS10EE CLI commands have been added specifically for the PowerEdge MX platform:
• show switch-operating-mode – displays the current operating mode (SmartFabric or
Full Switch) of a supported switch