Deployment Guide

8 Leaf-Spine Deployment and Best Practices Guide | Version 1.0
2 Hardware overview
This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate the examples in this guide. A complete listing of
hardware and components used is provided in Appendix B.
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU) switch with forty-eight 1GbE Base-T ports and
four 10GbE SFP+ ports. In this guide, one S3048-ON switch supports out-of-band (OOB) management traffic
in each rack.
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON is a 1-RU, multilayer switch with forty-eight 10GbE SFP+ ports and six
40GbE QSFP+ ports. S4048-ON switches are used as leaf switches in the examples in this guide.
Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON
2.3 Dell EMC Networking S6010-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S6010-ON is a 1-RU, multilayer switch with thirty-two 40GbE QSFP+ ports. S6010-
ON switches are used as spine switches in an example in this guide.
Dell EMC Networking S6010-ON