Users Guide

3 Dell EMC Networking with Isilon Front-End Deployment and Best Practices Guide | version 1.0
Table of contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
2 Hardware overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.4 Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd ........................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 ............................................................................................................................... 9
2.6 Isilon X210 .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
3 Management ............................................................................................................................................................... 10
4 Leaf-spine overview ................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.1 Design considerations ...................................................................................................................................... 11
4.2 Oversubscription ............................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Scaling .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.4 Layer 3 leaf-spine topology .............................................................................................................................. 14
4.5 Layer 2 leaf-spine topology .............................................................................................................................. 15
5 Layer 3 Topology preparation .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.1 BGP ASN configuration .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.2 Loopback addresses ........................................................................................................................................ 16
5.3 Point-to-point interfaces .................................................................................................................................... 17
6 Configuration of Layer 3 Topology ............................................................................................................................. 19
6.1 Configuration of Z9100-ON OS10EE Spine Switches...................................................................................... 19
6.2 Configuration of S4048-ON OS10EE Leaf Switches ........................................................................................ 23
6.3 Configuration of S4048-ON OS9 Leaf Switches .............................................................................................. 32
7 Configuration of Layer 2 Topology ............................................................................................................................. 41
7.1 Configuration of Z9100-ON OS10EE Spine Switches...................................................................................... 41
7.2 Configuration of S4048-ON OS10EE Leaf Switches ........................................................................................ 45
7.3 Configuration of S4048-ON OS9 Leaf Switches .............................................................................................. 50
8 Validation .................................................................................................................................................................... 58
8.1 OS10EE Validation commands ........................................................................................................................ 58
8.2 OS9 Validation commands ............................................................................................................................... 63