Dell Technologies SmartFabric Manager (SFM) provides several AI fabric blueprints that customers can leverage to build their AI infrastructure.
These blueprints have been created using specific network architectures, features, and scalability to address common AI deployment models ranging from small to large.
There are three types of fabric blueprints:
- Out-of-band (OOB) management fabric.
- Frontend/converged/access fabric.
- Backend (GPU) fabric.
- Scale Out fabric.
- Scale Up fabric.
The following figure is a reference of the different networking fabrics that are used to deploy a typical GenAI environment.
SFM allows for limited modification of these blueprints to provide efficient usability and to keep the number of GPU blueprints to a minimum, addressing the most common models.
Each blueprint that is modified creates a user-defined blueprint while keeping the original untouched.
There are two ways to initiate the customization of the existing blueprints.
- Use the Export tab to modify the blueprints with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
- Customize the blueprint directly using the Create Infrastructure tab.
The Export approach requires access to Microsoft Excel to modify the different parameters of the blueprints. If access to Excel is not available, you can use the second the Create Infrastructure approach.