This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate the deployment examples in this guide. Appendix A contains a detailed listing of hardware and software versions used. All supported leaf and spine switches are listed in Table 1.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (1U), multilayer switch with 48x 25 GbE, 4x 100 GbE, and 2x 200 GbE ports. This guide uses two S5248F-ON switches in each rack as leaf switches.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5232F-ON
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5232F-ON is a 1U aggregation/spine switch with 32x 100 GbE ports. This guide uses two S5232F-ON switches as spine switches.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON is a 1U switch with 48x 1 GbE BASE-T ports and 4x 10 GbE SFP+ ports. This guide uses one S3048-ON switch in each rack for out-of-band (OOB) management traffic. This includes connections to VxRail node iDRAC ports and dedicated switch management ports.
Dell EMC VxRail nodes
Dell EMC VxRail P, V, S, E, and G Series nodes are built on current PowerEdge servers. The deployment example in this guide uses a cluster of four VxRail E560F nodes, with three nodes in Rack 1, and one node in Rack 2.
VxRail node network adapters
VxRail nodes support various combinations of network adapters. See the Dell EMC VxRail Network Planning Guide for network connectivity options by node type and the Dell EMC VxRail Support Matrix (account required) for supported network adapters.
Each VxRail node also includes an integrated Dell Remote Access Card (iDRAC) for out-of-band management.