Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.0

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Change history

The following table provides an overview of the changes to this guide from a previous OS10 release to the 10.5.0 release. For more information about the new features, see the respective sections.

Table 1. New in 10.5.0.7Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A06	2020-06-26	Default MTU Configuration	Configures a custom MTU value to all the interfaces that do not have a user configured MTU.
A06	2020-06-26	Rebalance FC sessions (NPG)	Enables you to balance the FC sessions in the NPIV Proxy Gateway (NPG) mode.
A05	2020–06-04	Backup and restore of Fabric State	Backup and restore all switch configuration to an external device.
A05	2020–06-04	Configuring FEC using MSM	Configure FEC on interfaces from MSM when the switch is in fabric mode.

Table 2. New in 10.5.0.5Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A04	2020–03-06	Enable SmartFabric Services on the switches	Enable or disable SmartFabric Services in an OS10 switch using OS10 CLI.
A04	2020–03-06	SmartFabric Services Graphical User Interface	Facilitates day zero deployment configurations and management of the switches in a Layer 3 fabric formed in leaf and spine topology.
		MX7000 Feb 2020 Solution Upgrade Instructions	Upgrades MX7000 from a pre-hardened version to a hardened version.

Table 3. New in 10.5.0.3Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A03	2019–12-06	Disable announcements of ASN values	Configure the system to modify the AS_PATH attribute of the received BGP routes and disable prepending the globally configured AS number.

Table 4. New in 10.5.0.1P1Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A02	2019–10-07	Priority flow control	Configure the traffic-class to queue mapping for the Z9332F-ON. View the format of the default traffic-class to queue mapping.
		queue qos-group (Z9332F-ON)	Configure the mapping of different traffic types of traffic classes to different queues.
		show qos maps (Z9332F-ON)	Displays the QoS maps configuration of dot1p-to-traffic class, DSCP-to-traffic class, and traffic-class to queue mapping in the device.

Table 5. New in 10.5.0.1Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A01	2019–09-17	MX Ethernet IO modules replacement in SmartFabric	Replace an Ethernet I/O module (IOM) that is part of a SmartFabric.
		SmartFabric Services mode CLI support: NTP SupportAssist Logging System Clock Security F_Port commands	Configure the following protocols or services using the SmartFabric OS10 CLI: NTP SupportAssist Logging SNMP System Clock Security FC Zone
		SmartFabric Services show commands	View SmartFabric-related configuration information using show commands.
		Untagged VLANs support in SmartFabric Services mode	Use any untagged VLAN In SmartFabric Services mode for FCoE uplinks and FCoE supported server ports, which are part of the FCoE VLAN.
		Lifecycle Management using SmartFabric Director	The gNMI agent processes image upgrade or downgrade requests from the SmartFabric Director server. The server sends these requests to the gNMI agent using Google Network Operating Interface (gNOI) API calls.
		gRPC Network Management Interface agent	New interface to support OS10 device configuration using gNMI protocol and Openconfig yang models. Supports Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on OS10, Telemetry agent configuration, OS10 lifecycle management (LCM) through gNOI protocol.
		Management address TLV in VLT domain	Send virtual addresses corresponding to the VLT peers over management address TLV.
		Default hostname	Sets the default hostname automatically using a module-slot format.
		VLT backup link in SmartFabric Services mode	VLT peer liveliness check is auto-configured in SmartFabric Services mode.

Table 6. New in 10.5.0.0 Releases and document revisions.
Revision	Date	Feature	Description
A00	2019–08-09	VLT multicast routing	Configure multicast routing on a VLT domain for IPv4 networks.
		DHCP Snooping	Monitor DHCP messages and block untrusted or rogue DHCP servers.
		Configure dynamic RP using BSR mechanism	Automatically discover the Rendezvous Point (RP) for a given multicast group in a multicast network.
		VXLAN - Multi-AS Centralized Layer 3 Gateway Routing Border Leaf Gateway	Use multi-AS systems in a BGP EVPN environment. Configure routing in a centralized gateway topology Configure routing in a border-leaf topology
		System events and alarms	Change the severity of events using Severity Profiles.
		Certificate revocation	Validate that the peer certificate has not been revoked by the issuing CA.
		Redistribute iBGP routes to OSPF	Redistribute routes learned using internal BGP to OSPF.
		Port to port pipe and MMU mapping	Recommendation for using interfaces from same port pipes for ingress and egress for optimal performance.
		Configure openflow	Configure multiple controllers for OpenFlow on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
		NPIV Proxy Gateway cascading	Connect two switches as NPIV Proxy Gateways (NPIV) between Converged Network Adapters (CNA) or Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (FC HBA) and FCoE Forwarder (FCF) switches.
		Obscure passwords	Obscure passwords in the show command output so that text characters do not display.
		RADIUS authentication	Specify an interface whose IP address is used as the source IP address for user authentication with RADIUS servers.
		Simple password check	Turn off the default strong password check and configure simpler passwords with no restrictions.
		SupportAssist	New updates to SupportAssist for enterprise systems.
		System clock	Configure daylight savings time configuration.
		System logging over TLS	Encrypt logged system messages sent to a syslog server using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.
		VLAN name TLVs	Configure OS10 to advertise TLVs with the names of VLANs in LLDP PDUs.