PowerEdge: MX7000: Defining VLANs using SmartFabric in OpenManage Enterprise Modular

Define VLANs in OpenManage Enterprise Modular.

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This action requires logging into an account with chassis administrator privileges.

VLAN Definition:

• Go to Configuration > VLANs and click Define to specify the VLAN to be added.

• Name the VLAN and give it a description, if wanted.
• Input a range of VLAN separated by a single dash with no space between. Using commas to separate and add multiple VLANs is not supported. If adding multiple VLANs to the SmartFabric that are non-sequential, then multiple entries are required to create them.

• Last, select your Network Type to configure Quality of Service (QoS) to the wanted configuration.

If more description is needed regarding the QoS levels, click the "?" in the upper right corner to open the embedded user manual as showed below. This information can also be found on Dell Support in the online User Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Modular, section entitled "SmartFabric VLAN management and automated QoS."

• Select Finish, and in a few seconds you see the new VLAN definition appear in the VLAN section.

Template Network Editing:

• Pivot over to the Templates page for the next step. Here, associate the newly created VLANs to a server template.

• Select the template in which to assign the VLAN, and click Edit Network.

• The first section is on I/O Pool Assignment. The second section is for configuring Bandwidth settings when using NIC Partitioning (NPAR) usage. These are covered in another tutorial.
• The third section is for VLANs. Here a dropdown for Untagged Network is seen in which to select a single untagged network VLAN, and a Tagged Network where it is possible to assign multiple VLANs at once.

• Click Select VLANs on either option to define the network as wanted. Scroll through the list on the left and select the VLANs you want to assign to the template and click the chevrons (>>) to move it from Available VLANs to Selected VLANs.

• Click Finish, then click Finish again on the template edit to complete the process.

• When the template edit is completed, you see a message in the right corner telling you the Network details updated successfully.

Deployment with Profile:

• The last step is to deploy the template either to a server profile or a chassis slot profile, if it has not already been deployed. This topic is covered in a separate tutorial.
• Also editing the VLANs within the Fabric section of OpenManage Enterprise Modular does not save these configurations to the server template and profile. For more information about that topic, go to MX7000 - Editing VLANs in a Template vs. in the SmartFabric Configuration.