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Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.0

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SmartFabric Services for leaf and spine

In leaf and spine architecture, SFS enables discovery, automation, and provision of network devices connected in a Layer 3 (L3) fabric topology.

In a leaf and spine topology, SFS:
  • Allocates all the necessary internal IP addresses for leaf and spine configurations.
  • Autoconfigures necessary BGP for all the relevant leaf and spine switches.
  • Enables leaf and spine for underlay and overlay.
  • Provides the following APIs for workload orchestration of:
    • Layer 2 (L2) VLAN, L3 VLAN, L3 Routed, and IP VXLAN networks
    • Fabric uplink with networks from L2 VLAN, L3 VLAN, L3 Routed, and IP VXLAN networks
    • BGP Policies for external connectivity
    • Route policies for static routing
    • Static and dynamic server template binding server discovery to networks from L2 VLAN, L3 VLAN, L3 Routed, and IP VXLAN networks. For more information, see Static onboarding and Dynamic onboarding.
SFS for leaf and spine

SFS, used in leaf and spine network, creates a fully integrated solution between the fabric and a hyperconverged domain infrastructure such as VxRail.

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