- Create the VLANs to be used in the fabric.
- Select the switches and create the fabric based on the preferred physical topology.
- Create uplinks from the fabric to the existing network and assign VLANs to those uplinks.
- Create and deploy the appropriate server templates to the compute sleds.
For cases where changing the port speed or breakout configuration of port groups is required, the port must be configured after the SmartFabric creation and before adding the uplinks.
With OME-M 1.30.00 and later, the port breakout can be directly configured to the desired breakout type as shown in figure below.
With OME-M 1.20.10 and earlier, you must set the Breakout Type to HardwareDefault first and then set the desired configuration as shown in the figure below.
If the recommended order of steps is not followed, you may encounter the following errors:
Scenario | Error display |
Configuration of the breakout requires you to create the SmartFabric first. When attempting to configure the breakout before creating a SmartFabric, the following error displays: | |
With OME-M 1.20.10 and earlier, configuration of the breakout requires you to select the HardwareDefault breakout type first. If the breakout type is directly selected without first selecting HardwareDefault, the following error displays: | |
Once the uplinks are added, they are most often associated with tagged or untagged VLANs. When attempting to configure the breakout on the uplink port-groups after adding uplinks associated with VLANs to the fabric, the following error displays: |