The newly created fabric requires uplinks to connect to the rest of the network. These uplinks are created as a single logical link to the upstream network using the same Virtual Link Trunking (VLT).
To create an Ethernet uplink from the MX9116n Fabric Switching Engines (FSEs) to the S5232F-ON leafs, refer to the Create Ethernet – No Spanning Tree uplink section in the SmartFabric Creation chapter of the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Networking Deployment Guide.
After creating uplinks, the SmartFabric creates an uplink object and the status of the fabric turns green.
This example defines Ethernet port interfaces on each MX9116n to uplink to a pair of top of rack leaf switches in the data center.