Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.0

SmartFabric Services logical entities

There are three types of logical entities that are defined for the SmartFabric Services: Networks, uplinks, and server profiles.

Networks

Networks are SmartFabric services templates that are populated once and then can be associated with servers, uplinks, or interfaces.

With in the context of SmartFabric services, you can define the following four types of networks:

• General purpose networks
• VXLAN networks
• L3 VLAN networks
• L3 Routed networks

General purpose networks

General purpose networks are L2 VLAN networks in VxRail and L2 VXLAN networks in L3 fabric.

For L3 fabric, SmartFabric services automatically creates a virtual network corresponding to a network. This virtual network has one-to-one mapping with the network, which means for each VLAN, there exists a virtual network with VNI same as the VLAN ID.

VXLAN networks

VXLAN network extends L2 connectivity over an underlay L3 connected network.

Association of VXLAN network to interface creates a binding and associates this interface to VXLAN bridge.

L3 VXLAN network supports asymmetric-IRB.

L3 VLAN network

L3 VLAN network is used for L3 VLAN underlay.

Specify:

• VLAN ID
• Pair of IP addresses to be assigned to the VLT pair.
• VRRP gateway IP address for VIP

L3 Routed network

L3 Routed network is used to assign IP address on a single interface. Specify the IP address.

Attach this network to any uplink that has a single interface. This network can only be attached to a single entity.