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The Dell PowerEdge MX platform is a unified, high-performance data center infrastructure. It provides the agility, resiliency, and efficiency to optimize a wide variety of traditional and new, emerging data center workloads and applications. With its kinetic architecture and agile management, PowerEdge MX dynamically configures compute, storage, and fabric; increases team effectiveness; and accelerates operations. The responsive design delivers the innovation and longevity that customers need for their IT and digital business transformations.
As part of the PowerEdge MX platform, the Dell SmartFabric OS10 network operating system includes SmartFabric Services (SFS), a network automation and orchestration solution that is fully integrated with the MX platform.
This document provides examples for integrating the Dell PowerEdge MX platform running SmartFabric Services for 25 GbE solutions and Full Switch mode for 100 GbE solutions with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
The examples in this document assume that the MX7000 chassis are configured in a multichassis management group and that the reader has a basic understanding of the PowerEdge MX platform.
For a general overview of PowerEdge MX networking concepts, SmartFabric Services (SFS), Full Switch mode, and the Scalable Fabric Architecture see the Dell PowerEdge MX Networking Deployment Guide.