Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.0

SFS discovers the OS10 switches and builds a L2 or L3 network fabric using industry-standard L2 and L3 protocols. SFS forms a cluster of OS10 switches belong to a domain. A domain is a LAN segment on which all the OS10 nodes are accessible. All the OS10 switches must be on the same domain for the cluster to form. SFS provides APIs including managing fabric, node inventory, fabric operations, server and onboarding storage devices. SFS provides APIs for collecting discovered servers and storage device inventory.

Prerequisites

• S4112F-ON, S4112T-ON
• S4128F-ON, S4128T-ON
• S4148F-ON, S4148FE-ON, S4148T-ON, S4148U-ON
• S4248FB-ON, S4248FBL-ON
• S5232F-ON, S5248F-ON, S5296F-ON
• S5212F–ON, S5224F–ON
• Z9100-ON
• Z9264F-ON

SFS for leaf and spine is available with OS10 release 10.5.0.0.

The Out-of-band (OOB) management network is an isolated network for remote management of servers, switches, and storage devices using the respective management ports. An S3048-ON installed in each rack provides 1GE connectivity to the management network. The OOB management ports on each spine and leaf switch are connected to the S3048-ON switches.

For the S3048-ON management switches, all ports are in L2 and in the default VLAN.