Dell SmartFabric OS10 includes SmartFabric Services (SFS). With SFS, customers can quickly and easily deploy and automate data center networking fabrics.
The SFS Fabric build process is as follows:
- Rack and cable leaf and spine switches.
- Enable SFS from the OS10 CLI with the smartfabric l3fabric enable role [options] command.
- Specify the role, leaf, or spine.
- Specify Virtual Link Trunking interconnect (VLTi) ports on leafs.
- Switches boot in SmartFabric mode.
- Switches discover each other using LLDP.
- Switches elect one of the leaf nodes as the SmartFabric leader.
- Leaf and spine connections are established using private IP addresses and external Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP).
- Leaf Nodes are configured as hardware VTEPs for the infrastructure network overlay using BGP EVPN.