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
SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric
Dell EMC PowerScale is a scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) platform that supports unstructured data workloads.
All PowerScale models are powered by the OneFS operating system. PowerScale uses Dell EMC PowerSwitches to provide
the network. SmartFabric OS10 with SFS, for PowerScale back-end fabric automates onboarding and network configuration
of PowerScale devices on a L3 leaf and spine fabric. Isilon OneFS interacts with back-end fabric formed by SFS. For more
information, see PowerScale Info Hub.
Supported network topologies
See Supported topologies section for information regarding the topologies of SFS. Only L3 personality is supported when
deploying SFS with PowerScale nodes.
Hardware and software requirements
The requirements to deploy PowerScale with SFS are as follows:
Hardware components
● PowerScale devices
● Dell EMC PowerSwitches
Software components
● Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10
● Isilon OneFS
Supported switches
The following PowerSwitches are supported in PowerScale deployment:
● S4112F-ON
● S4148F-ON
● S5232F-ON
● Z9264F-ON
● Z9100-ON
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