Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 1.0
- About this guide
- SFS fundamentals
- Setting up SFS
- Deploying and managing a fabric
- Access fabric setup options
- Update default fabric, switch names, and descriptions
- Create uplink for external network connectivity
- Breakout switch ports
- Configure jump host
- Update network configuration
- Onboard a server onto the fabric
- Edit default fabric settings
- Restore fabric configuration
- Manage network profiles
- Manage routing profiles
- Access fabric setup options
- SFS with VxRail
- SFS with PowerEdge MX
- SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric
- SFS commands
- smartfabric l3fabric enable
- smartfabric vlti
- show logging smartfabric
- show smartfabric cluster
- show smartfabric cluster member
- show smartfabric configured-server
- show smartfabric configured-server configured-server-interface
- show smartfabric details
- show smartfabric discovered-server
- show smartfabric discovered-server discovered-server-interface
- show smartfabric networks
- show smartfabric nodes
- show smartfabric personality
- show smartfabric uplinks
- show smartfabric upgrade-status
- show smartfabric validation-errors
- show switch-operating-mode
- Appendix
Table 5. SFS personalities in VxRail deployment
L2 Single Rack personality L3 multi rack personality
Enabled SFS by running a Python script in the OS10 Linux
shell.
Enable SFS using CLI, API, or UI.
Existing deployments when upgraded to SmartFabric
OS10.5.0.5 continue to run in the L2 fabric profile and L3
fabric capabilities are not available. If you upgrade switches
with L2 personality to OS10.5.0.5, SFS operates with the
VxRail L2 single rack personality.
Dell Technologies recommends that you enable all new
deployments with L3 leaf and spine fabric personality. You
cannot upgrade VxRail with SFS deployments to the new L3
leaf and spine fabric personality automatically.
Support matrix
See Networking Solutions Support Matrix regarding support matrices for SFS with VxRail across various releases.
Fabric operations and life cycle management
Dell EMC OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI) enables you to configure and manage SFS-enabled PowerSwitches in
different deployments. You can use OMNI application to manage and operate one or more SFS instances either directly using
the OMNI UI through a web browser or through a vCenter plug-in. After initial deployments, Dell Technologies recommends that
you use OMNI UI to perform all fabric management and life cycle management activities.
For more information about OMNI, see OMNI Documentation.
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