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Non-VxRail devices are onboarded to the SmartFabric using the OMNI plugin in vCenter. In this example, a standard PowerEdge Server in Rack 2 is connected to the fabric, as shown in Figure 107.
Figure 107. Non-VxRail device connected to SmartFabric
The PowerEdge server to be added is connected to Leaf2A and Leaf2B in this example, as shown in Figure 107.
If the server uses a 1 GbE or 10 GbE NIC, and it is connected to 25 GbE ports on S5200 series switches, the corresponding leaf switch ports used must be changed from 25 GbE to 10 GbE before proceeding. To breakout switch ports on S5248F-Leaf2A to 10 GbE, use the following steps.
Figure 108. Server Interfaces
Note: See Table 9 to map the S5200 ports to port groups.
Figure 109. Server Interfaces
Figure 110. Server Interfaces
Repeat the above steps to breakout port group 1/1/2 on switch S5248F-Leaf2B. After the wanted switch port is broken out to 10 GbE, you can continue to add the server to the fabric.
In this example, the server's two connected ports are configured as an LACP NIC team in the operating system running on the PowerEdge server. An IP address is assigned to the NIC team on VM_Network_A, 172.18.14.0/24.
Note: NIC teaming and IP address configuration procedures on the PowerEdge server depend on the operating system used and are not covered in this guide.
To onboard the server to the SmartFabric using OMNI, do the following:
Figure 111. Server Interfaces
Figure 112. Create a server interface profile
Repeat steps 4 through 6 above for the second connection to the PowerEdge server using the values in Table 12.
Table 12. Values for second PowerEdge Server connection
Field |
Value |
Server interface ID |
LACP-NIC-Team-2 |
Server Profile |
Existing Server Profile |
Server Profile ID |
PowerEdge-Server-1 |
Untagged Network |
VM_Network_A 1814 |
Static Onboarding option |
Yes |
NIC Bonding |
Enable |
Leaf Node |
Leaf2B |
Interface |
ethernet 1/1/5:1 |
Routing Protocol |
None |
When complete, the Server Interface Profile page appears, as shown in Figure 113.
Figure 113. Server interface profiles created
Validation may be done at a leaf switch CLI with the following commands:
The show port-channel summary command output shows the newly created port channel, port channel 1, on interface 1/1/5:1. (P) indicates the member is up and active.
Note: In the output below, port channels 96 through 97 are SFS-configured uplinks to the spines, and port channel 1000 is the VLTi.
S5248F-Leaf2A# show port-channel summary
Flags: D - Down I - member up but inactive P - member up and active
U - Up (port-channel) F - Fallback Activated
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Group Port-Channel Type Protocol Member Ports
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1 port-channel1 (U) Eth DYNAMIC 1/1/5:1(P)
96 port-channel96 (U) Eth STATIC 1/1/55(P)
97 port-channel97 (U) Eth STATIC 1/1/56(P)
1000 port-channel1000 (U) Eth STATIC 1/1/49(P) 1/1/50(P) 1/1/51(P) 1/1/52(P)
The show virtual-network output shows that port channel 1, containing the interface to the PowerEdge server, has been added as an untagged member of virtual network 1814.
Note: Other virtual networks have been removed from the output for brevity.
S5248F-Leaf2A# show virtual-network
Codes: DP - MAC-learn Dataplane, CP - MAC-learn Controlplane, UUD - Unknown-Unicast-Drop
Virtual Network: 1814
VLTi-VLAN: 1814
Members:
Untagged: port-channel1
VLAN 1814: port-channel1000, ethernet1/1/1
VxLAN Virtual Network Identifier: 1814
Source Interface: loopback2(172.30.0.1)
Remote-VTEPs (flood-list): 172.30.0.0(CP)
The configuration may also be verified by pinging a host on the same virtual network as the newly onboarded server. In this case, the target host is a VM running on a VxRail node, is on VM_Network_A, VLAN 1814, and is at 172.18.14.1.
Figure 114. Added PowerEdge server pings a VM