Reference Guide

18 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Deployment Guide
4 PowerEdge MX IOM overview
4.1 OS10 Enterprise Edition
The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n FSE and MX5108n support Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise
Edition (OS10EE). OS10EE is a network operating system supporting multiple architectures and
environments.
The following additional OS10EE CLI commands are available for the MX9116n FSE to assist with MX7116n
FEM management:
• show switch-operating-mode – displays the current operating mode of a supported switch
• show port-group – displays the current port-group configuration on the switch
• show discovered-expanders – displays the MX7116n FEMs attached to the MX9116n FSEs
• show unit-provision – displays the unit ID and service tag of the MX7116n FEM attached to
an MX9116n FSE
• port-group – configures a group of front-panel unified ports or QSFP28-DD port
Note: For more information, see the OS10 Enterprise Edition User Guide for PowerEdge MX I/O Modules on
the Support for Dell EMC Networking MX9116n - Manuals and documents web page.
4.2 Operating Modes
The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n FSE and MX5108n operate in one of two modes:
1. Full Switch Mode – Enabled by default, all switch-specific OS10EE capabilities are available
2. SmartFabric Mode – Switches operate as layer 2 I/O aggregation devices and are managed through
the Open Manage Enterprise Modular console
Table 3 outlines the differences between the two operating modes. The differences between operating modes
apply to both the MX9116n FSE and the MX5108n.
IOM operating mode differences
Full Switch mode
SmartFabric mode
Configuration changes are persistent during power
cycle events.
Only the configuration changes made using the
OS10 commands below are persistent across power
cycle events. All other CLI configuration commands
are disabled.
clock
hostname
interface
ip nameserver
logging
management route
ntp
snmp-server
username
spanning-tree
vlan