Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 1.0
- About this guide
- SFS fundamentals
- Setting up SFS
- Deploying and managing a fabric
- Access fabric setup options
- Update default fabric, switch names, and descriptions
- Create uplink for external network connectivity
- Breakout switch ports
- Configure jump host
- Update network configuration
- Onboard a server onto the fabric
- Edit default fabric settings
- Restore fabric configuration
- Manage network profiles
- Manage routing profiles
- Access fabric setup options
- SFS with VxRail
- SFS with PowerEdge MX
- SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric
- SFS commands
- smartfabric l3fabric enable
- smartfabric vlti
- show logging smartfabric
- show smartfabric cluster
- show smartfabric cluster member
- show smartfabric configured-server
- show smartfabric configured-server configured-server-interface
- show smartfabric details
- show smartfabric discovered-server
- show smartfabric discovered-server discovered-server-interface
- show smartfabric networks
- show smartfabric nodes
- show smartfabric personality
- show smartfabric uplinks
- show smartfabric upgrade-status
- show smartfabric validation-errors
- show switch-operating-mode
- Appendix
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Acronyms
The following acronyms are used throughout this guide:
Table 2. Acronyms
Acronym Expansion
API Application Programmable Interface
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
CLI Command-Line interface
GUI Graphical User Interface
ICL Intercluster link
ISL Interswitch link
IOM Input/Output Module
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LAG Link aggregation group
L2 Layer 2
L3 Layer 3
RPVST+ Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning-Tree Plus
SFS SmartFabric Services
STP Spanning-Tree Protocol
VLAN Virtual LAN
VLT Virtual Link Trunking
VXLAN Virtual extensible LAN
VTEP VXLAN tunnel endpoint
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