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Dell SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 10.5.3

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Manage switches in a fabric

You can manage the spine and leaf switches available in a fabric.

Set Preferred Leader

Dell Technologies recommends you to set a spine switch as the Preferred Leader for optimal performance. You can identify the switch that is set as the leader switch from SFS GUI. You can set the leaf or spine switches as a Preferred Leader from SFS GUI:

  1. Click Switches.
  2. Click the toggle switch to set the Preferred Leader for the leaf or spine switch. The system prompts for confirmation. preferred-leader
  3. Click Ok to confirm.

You can disable the Preferred Leader for any switch using the toggle switch. After confirmation, the Preferred Leader is disabled.

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