Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- OpenManage Network Integration for SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 2.0
- Change history
- Overview of OMNI, SFS, VxRail, and PowerEdge MX
- SmartFabric Services
- OpenManage Network Integration
- OMNI vCenter integration
- Access the OMNI stand-alone portal
- Access the OMNI Fabric Management Portal
- OMNI Appliance Management user interface
- OMNI automation support for PowerEdge MX SmartFabric
- OMNI automation support for NSX-T
- OMNI support for SmartFabric instances
- Lifecycle management
- Troubleshooting
- Logs and support data for troubleshooting
- Verify OMNI VM connectivity
- Unable to add SmartFabric instance in OMNI
- Missing networks on server interfaces
- Unable to launch OMNI UI
- OMNI plug-in does not show service instance
- Unable to register the vCenter in OMNI
- OMNI is unable to communicate with other devices
- Timestamp not synchronized in OMNI
- Reset OMNI VM password
● Data center modernization
○ I/O aggregation.
○ Plug and play fabric deployment.
○ Single interface to manage all switches in the fabric.
● Lifecycle management
○ SmartFabric OS10 updates across the fabric.
○ Automated or manual rollback to last well-known state.
● Fabric automation
○ Physical topology compliance.
○ Server networking managed using templates.
○ Automated QoS assignment per VLAN.
○ Automated storage networking.
● Failure remediation
○ Dynamically adjusts bandwidth across all interswitch links when there is a link failure.
○ Automatically detects fabric misconfigurations or link level failure conditions.
○ Automatically heals the fabric on failure condition removal.
When PowerEdge MX switches are in SmartFabric Services mode, they operate entirely as a Layer 2 network fabric. Layer 3
protocols are not supported. For more information about MX switches, see MX documentation.
More resources
List of more resources you may need:
Table 3. More resources
Path and Links to Documents Description
Dell EMC Networking OS10 Info Hub > OS10 User Guides >
OS10 Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide, 10.5.2
This document contains information to help you understand,
configure, and troubleshoot your OS10 networking operating
system.
Dell Technologies VxRail Networking Infohub > Guides This page contains reference documents to configuration,
deployment, and other guides for VxRail networking solutions.
SmartFabric OS10 Solutions Support Matrix This page contains the various support matrices of
SmartFabric OS10 solutions including VxRail, PowerStore,
Isilon front-end, PowerEdge ESXi, vSAN Ready Nodes, and
PowerEdge MX.
Dell EMC OpenManage Network Integration for VMware
vCenter > Manuals and documents
This page lists the OMNI reference manuals from previous
versions.
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Modular Switches This page list the manuals and reference documents to
configure PowerEdge MX Modular Switches in different
deployment scenarios.
Overview of OMNI, SFS, VxRail, and PowerEdge MX 9