Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide Release 10.5.0

Virtual routing and forwarding

VRF partitions a physical router into multiple virtual routers (VRs). The control and data plane are isolated in each VR; traffic does not flow across VRs. VRF allows multiple instances of routing tables to co-exist within the same router simultaneously.

OS10 supports a management VRF instance, a default VRF instance, and a maximum of 512 non-default VRF instances. Use the default and non-default VRF instances to configure routing.

You can move the management interface from the default to management VRF instance. You need not create the management VRF instance as it already exists in the system by default.

By default, OS10 initially assigns all physical interfaces and all logical interfaces to the default VRF instance.