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8 Dell EMC Networking with Isilon Front-End Deployment and Best Practices Guide | version 1.0
2 Hardware overview
This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate the deployment example in this guide. Appendix
A contains a complete listing of hardware and components.
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 supports management traffic in each rack.
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON
The S4048-ON is a 1RU switch with forty-eight 10GbE SFP+ ports and six ports of 40GbE. In this guide, this
switch is deployed as a leaf switch performing basic gateway functionality for attached Windows servers and
Isilon nodes.
Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON
2.3 Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON
The Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON is a 1RU, multilayer switch with thirty-two ports supporting
10/25/40/50/100GbE as well as two 10GbE ports. The Z9100-ON is used as a spine in this guide.
Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON
2.4 Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd is a 2-RU, two-socket server platform. It allows up to 32 x 2.5” SSDs or
HDDs with SAS, SATA, and NVMe support. In this guide, two R730xd servers are used to connect to the
Isilon storage.