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MX7000 - Defining VLANs using SmartFabric in OpenManage Enterprise Modular

Summary: How to define VLANs to your SmartFabric network, and associate the VLAN to a server template to put them in use through OpenManage Enterprise Modular (OME-M).

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Define VLANs in OpenManage Enterprise Modular (OME-M)

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This action requires logging into an account with chassis administrator privileges.

VLAN Definition:
  • First we will navigate to Configuration > VLANs and click Define to specify the VLAN we wish to add.
    Single Chassis VLAN Location
Define VLAN Button
  • Name the VLAN and give it a description, if desired.
  • Input a range of VLAN separated by a single dash with no space between. Currently, using commas to separate and add multiple VLANs is not supported. If we need to add multiple VLANs to the SmartFabric that are non-sequential, then multiple entries will be required to create them.
NOTE: VLAN 4001 - 4020 are reserved for inter-chassis communications, as well as SmartFabric communication.
  • Last, select your Network Type to configure Quality of Service (QoS) to the desired configuration.
If more description is needed regarding the QoS levels, click the ? in the upper right corner to open the embedded user manual as showed below. This information can also be found on support.dell.com in the online User Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Modular in the section titled "SmartFabric VLAN management and automated QoS".
Embedded User Guide Location
QoS Definitions
  • Select Finish, and in a few seconds you'll see the new VLAN definition appear in the VLAN section.
 
Template Network Editing:
  • Now we pivot over to the Templates page for our next step. Here, we will associate our newly created VLAN(s) to a server template.
NOTE:This tutorial assumes we already have a template created, so we will only cover editing an existing template.
  • Select the template in which we desire to assign the VLAN, and click Edit Network.
Template - Edit Network
  • The first section is on IO Pool Assignment. The second section is for configuring Bandwidth settings when using NIC Partitioning (NPAR) usage. These will be covered in another tutorial.
  • The third section is for VLANs. Here we see a dropdown for Untagged Network in which we can select a single untagged network VLAN, and a Tagged Network where we can assign multiple VLANs at once.
Adding a single untagged VLAN, or multiple tagged VLANs
  • Click Select VLAN(s) on either option to define the network as desired. Scroll through the list on the left and select the VLAN(s) you wish to assign to the template and click the chevrons (>>) to move it from Available VLANs to Selected VLANs.
Adding tagged VLAN
  • Click Finish, then click Finish again on the template edit to complete the process.
NOTE: If we do not wish for the VLAN configurations to propagate immediately, uncheck the Propagate VLAN settings immediately box, which is highlighted in the screenshot below. If this is unchecked, any profiles associated with the VLAN edited template will need to be re-deployed in order to apply the new VLAN(s). This option is not available prior to OME-M version 1.20.00.
Immediate Propagation Checkbox
  • When the template edit is completed, you'll see a popup in the right corner telling you the Network details updated successfully.
Network settings successfully applied
 
Deployment with Profile:
  • The last step is to deploy the template either to a server profile or a chassis slot profile, if it has not already been deployed. This topic will be covered in a separate tutorial.
  • Also note that editing the VLAN(s) within the Fabric section of OME-M will not save these configurations to the server template and profile. For more information about that topic, visit KB 209969 using the link below.
 
 

Affected Products

Dell EMC Networking MX8116n, Dell OpenManage Enterprise-Modular, PowerEdge MX7000, PowerEdge MX740C, PowerEdge MX750c, PowerEdge MX760c, PowerEdge MX840C, SmartFabric OS10 Software, Dell EMC vSAN MX740c Ready Node, Dell EMC vSAN MX750c Ready Node

Products

PowerEdge MX7000
Article Properties
Article Number: 000213684
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 07 Aug 2023
Version:  3
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