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Dell SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 10.5.3

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SFS overview

SFS is a SmartFabric OS10 feature that provides network fabric automation and API-based programming capabilities. SFS has different personalities that can be integrated with systems including VxRail, PowerScale, generic PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, storage, and MX servers. SFS integrated with these solution-specific deployments delivers autonomous fabric deployment, expansion, and life cycle management.

SFS has two types: SFS for PowerEdge MX and SFS for leaf and spine. The following sections focus on concepts that are related to SFS for leaf and spine:

SFS for leaf and spine is supported on S-series and Z-series Dell PowerSwitches. See Support matrix for a complete list of supported platforms. SFS for leaf and spine has two personalities:

L2 single rack personality

single rack personality
NOTE This personality is not available for deployments after OS10.5.0.5 release. All single rack and multirack deployments from 10.5.0.5 release and later use the L3 personality.

SFS deployments on OS10 releases from 10.4.1.4 to OS10.5.0.5 support only L2 single rack.

  • Provide fabric automation for a single pair of leaf switches.
  • SFS deployment is limited to a single rack and cannot be expanded to a multirack deployment.
    NOTE When you upgrade switches with this personality enabled, they operate in the L2 single rack personality only.
  • SFS L2 single rack personality is enabled by running a Python script in the OS10 Linux shell. See Enable L2 personality for more information.

L3 multi rack personality

multi rack personality

All SFS deployments using OS10.5.0.5 and later releases support SFS L3 personality and the capabilities are as follows:

  • Provides fabric automation for leaf and spine.
  • Allows SFS deployment in a single rack and expand to multirack as required.
  • Allows you to enable SFS using CLI, API, or GUI.
    NOTE The support to enable SFS using GUI is not available from 10.5.3.0 release.
NOTE In an MX-based deployment, the fabric is configured using OpenManage Enterprise-Modular (OME-M) UI, see Dell OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Editions User Guide available in PowerEdge MX Documentation.

See the Solutions Support Matrix for a complete list of solutions that can be onboarded onto the fabric.

This guide covers the following SFS qualified solutions:

SFS terminology

The terms master and leader are used interchangeably in this document. Leader is the same as master.

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