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Smart Scripting

Smart Scripting provides:

• Support for industry-standard languages, such as Perl and Python, avoiding the

need to learn a new proprietary scripting language

• Customization of device monitoring and management to suit your network needs,

including custom maintenance tasks, discovery programs, and event logging for

faster problem resolution

Smart scripting increases network availability and manageability by allowing

network administrators to deploy custom monitoring and management scripts on Dell

Networking switches. Using custom scripts, network administrators can implement

version control systems, automatically generate alerts, create custom logging tools

and automate management of network devices. Any function that can be performed

through the Dell Networking OS command-line interface (CLI) can be performed

with smart scripting.

The scripting environment provided by Smart Scripting (Expect, Perl, Python, Tcl,

UNIX and ZSH shell scripts) makes it easy for IT administrators to quickly develop

scripts without having to learn a new scripting language.

Virtual Server Networking

Virtual Server Networking (VSN) provides:

• Automatic re-provisioning of VLANs when you migrate virtual machines (VMs).

• Support for multiple hypervisors, such as VMware and Citrix XenServer.

Virtual data centers require network infrastructure to be dynamic to ensure that

network connectivity and QoS and security policies are maintained when VMs are

migrated. VSN facilitates communication between Dell Networking switches and

VM management software to automatically re-provision VMs and associated VLANs

during virtual machine migration.

As a result, VSN greatly simplifies many of the tasks associated with virtualized

computing environments. Network administrators can manage the network while

server administrators manage the servers. No manual VLAN reconfiguration is

required when you migrate VMs.

VSN software supports the following hypervisors:

• VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0

• Citrix XenServer 5.6/6.0