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This section briefly describes the hardware used to validate the deployment example in this guide. Appendix A contains a complete listing of hardware and components.
The Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU) switch with forty-eight 1 GbE Base-T ports and four 10 GbE SFP+ ports. In this guide, one S3048-ON supports management traffic in each rack.
Figure 2. Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
The S4048-ON is a 1-RU switch with forty-eight 10-GbE SFP+ ports and six ports of 40 GbE. In this guide, this switch is deployed as a leaf switch performing basic gateway functionality for attached Windows servers and Isilon nodes.
Figure 3. Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON
The Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON is a 1-RU, multilayer switch with 32 ports supporting 10/25/40/50/100 GbE as well as two 10 GbE ports. The Z9100-ON is used as a spine in this guide.
Figure 4. Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd is a 2-RU, two-socket server platform. It allows up to 32x 2.5” SSDs or HDDs with SAS, SATA, and NVMe support. In this guide, two R730xd servers are used to connect to the Isilon storage.
Figure 5. Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd
This R640 server is a 2-socket, 1-RU server. This server is used in the second rack to connect to the Isilon storage.
Figure 6. Dell EMC PowerEdge R640
The Dell EMC Isilon X210 is a 2-RU, scale-out NAS system. The Isilon X210 is used to create a storage cluster to support an SMB share in this guide.
Figure 7. Dell EMC Isilon X210 front view
Figure 8. Dell EMC Isilon X210 rear view