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This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate the deployment examples in this guide. Appendix A contains a detailed listing of hardware and software versions used. All supported leaf and spine switches are listed in Table 1.
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU), multilayer switch with 48x25GbE, 4x100GbE, and 2x200GbE ports. This guide uses two S5248F-ON switches in each rack as leaf switches.
Figure 3. Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON is a 2-RU aggregation/spine switch with 64x100GbE ports. This guide uses two Z9264F-ON switches as spine switches.
Figure 4. Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON
The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON is a 1-RU switch with 48x1GbE BASE-T ports and 4x10GbE SFP+ ports. This guide uses one S3048-ON switch in each rack for out-of-band (OOB) management traffic. This includes connections to VxRail node iDRAC ports and dedicated switch management ports.
Figure 5. Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON
Dell EMC VxRail P, V, S, E, and G Series nodes are built on 14th generation (14G) PowerEdge servers. VxRail P, V, and S Series nodes have a 2-RU form factor, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Dell EMC VxRail 2-RU node (P, V, and S Series)
VxRail E Series nodes have a 1-RU form factor, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Dell EMC VxRail E Series node
VxRail G series nodes are high-density with up to four compute nodes in a 2-RU chassis, as shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9.
Figure 8. Dell EMC VxRail G series node chassis – front
Figure 9. Dell EMC VxRail G series node chassis - rear showing four installed nodes
Note: The deployment example in this guide builds a VxRail cluster with four VxRail nodes. VxRail supports cluster sizes up to 64 nodes. With SFS, VxRail clusters must have a minimum of three nodes. Two-node VxRail clusters are not currently supported.
VxRail nodes support various combinations of network adapters. See the Dell EMC VxRail Network Planning Guide for network connectivity options by node type and the Dell EMC VxRail Support Matrix (account required) for supported network adapters.
Note: For VxRail node connections to the leaf switches listed in Table 1, use supported 10GbE or 25GbE network adapters only. 1GbE network adapters are not supported for VxRail node to SFS-enabled leaf switch connections.
Each VxRail node also includes an integrated Dell Remote Access Card (iDRAC) for out-of-band management.