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
This guide covers the following SFS qualified solutions:
● SFS deployment with VxRail
● SFS deployment with PowerEdge MX
● SFS deployment with Isilon/PowerScale
SFS GUI
OS10 has support for SFS GUI to set up the initial SFS configurations in a L3 leaf and spine topology. You access the SFS GUI
using the latest version of the following browsers:
● Google Chrome
● Mozilla Firefox
● Microsoft Edge
For more information about SFS GUI, see Access fabric setup configuration.
Supported network topologies
Following are the supported network topologies for SFS L3 multirack deployment:
● One leaf switch pair without spine switch
● Multiple leaf switch pairs with a two or more spine switches
SFS supported platforms
SFS is supported on the selected S-series and Z-series PowerSwitches for leaf and spine deployments. The platform support
varies depending on the solutions such as VxRail, PowerScale, and so on. The supported platforms are listed in Supported
Switches section under respective solution chapters.
Creating a network fabric
When you enable SFS on the switches in leaf and spine architecture, a single network fabric is built with all the discovered
switches using industry-standard L2 and L3 protocols. SFS supports the following automation capabilities in a leaf and spine
topology:
● Elects one leaf switch from the fabric as the master switch.
● Creates the infrastructure VLANs on the nodes.
● Allocates all the necessary internal IP addresses for leaf and spine configurations.
● Autoconfigures necessary BGP for all the relevant leaf and spine switches.
● Enables leaf and spine for underlay and overlay.
● Provides workload orchestration of server discovery and binding server profiles to networks.
See Internal components and entities for more information about infrastructure networks and fabrics that are created by SFS.
Also, you can use SFS show commands to view and verify fabric-related configuration.
After the fabric is created, you can configure uplinks, jumphost, and onboard servers to the fabric using the SFS GUI.
Server discovery and onboarding
SFS discovers and onboards a server based on the LLDP from the server when connected to the fabric.
Onboarding a server involves creating a server profile and assigning the networks (VLANs) to a specific server NIC port
connected to the switch port.
You can onboard a server in the following ways:
● Dynamic onboarding
● Static onboarding
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SFS fundamentals