Connectivity Guide

3 Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition Switch Configuration Guide for VxRail featuring S5248F-ON,
S5232F-ON and S5148F-ON
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Supported switches and operating systems ....................................................................................................... 7
1.2 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 8
1.3 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 8
2 Hardware overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S5232F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.3 Dell EMC Networking S5148F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 Dell EMC VxRail 14G nodes ............................................................................................................................ 10
2.5.1 Dell EMC VxRail P Series node ....................................................................................................................... 10
2.5.2 Dell EMC VxRail V Series node ....................................................................................................................... 10
2.5.3 Dell EMC VxRail S Series node ....................................................................................................................... 10
2.5.4 Dell EMC VxRail E Series node ....................................................................................................................... 10
2.5.5 VxRail node network adapters .......................................................................................................................... 10
3 Topology options ........................................................................................................................................................ 12
3.1 Dual switch ....................................................................................................................................................... 12
3.1.1 Dual switch with VLT ........................................................................................................................................ 12
3.1.2 Dual switch without VLT ................................................................................................................................... 13
3.2 Single switch ..................................................................................................................................................... 14
4 VxRail in the data center ............................................................................................................................................ 15
4.1 Leaf-spine network ........................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2 OOB management network .............................................................................................................................. 16
5 Configuration planning ............................................................................................................................................... 17
5.1 VLANs and IP addresses ................................................................................................................................. 17
5.2 VxRail network configuration table ................................................................................................................... 18
5.3 Using a jump box or laptop computer ............................................................................................................... 19
5.4 DNS and NTP servers ...................................................................................................................................... 19
6 Switch configuration prerequisites.............................................................................................................................. 21
6.1 Check switch OS version .................................................................................................................................. 21
6.2 Verify license installation .................................................................................................................................. 21
6.3 Factory default configuration ............................................................................................................................ 22
7 Configure switches ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
7.1 Dual switch with VLT ........................................................................................................................................ 23