Concept Guide

Table Of Contents
SFS personalities............................................................................................................................................................... 38
Support matrix................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Fabric operations and life cycle management............................................................................................................ 39
Chapter 6: SFS with PowerEdge MX............................................................................................40
Chapter 7: SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric................................................................. 41
Supported network topologies........................................................................................................................................41
Hardware and software requirements.......................................................................................................................... 41
Supported switches.....................................................................................................................................................41
PowerScale requirements............................................................................................................................................... 42
Support matrix................................................................................................................................................................... 42
Chapter 8: SFS commands.......................................................................................................... 43
smartfabric l3fabric enable............................................................................................................................................. 43
smartfabric vlti................................................................................................................................................................... 43
show logging smartfabric ............................................................................................................................................... 44
show smartfabric cluster.................................................................................................................................................44
show smartfabric cluster member................................................................................................................................ 45
show smartfabric configured-server............................................................................................................................ 46
show smartfabric configured-server configured-server-interface....................................................................... 47
show smartfabric details................................................................................................................................................. 48
show smartfabric discovered-server............................................................................................................................48
show smartfabric discovered-server discovered-server-interface...................................................................... 49
show smartfabric networks............................................................................................................................................ 49
show smartfabric nodes.................................................................................................................................................. 50
show smartfabric personality.......................................................................................................................................... 51
show smartfabric uplinks.................................................................................................................................................52
show smartfabric upgrade-status................................................................................................................................. 53
show smartfabric validation-errors...............................................................................................................................54
show switch-operating-mode........................................................................................................................................ 55
Chapter 9: Appendix....................................................................................................................56
Internal fabric components and networks.................................................................................................................. 56
MSTP Support on L3 personality.................................................................................................................................. 57
Networks.............................................................................................................................................................................58
Uplinks..................................................................................................................................................................................59
Routing profiles............................................................................................................................................................59
Uplink bonding options...............................................................................................................................................60
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