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Design Guide—Dell Validated Design for SAP HANA Deployments with Dell VxRail Infrastructure
Executive summary VxRail requirements Configuration recommendations for SAP HANA virtual machines Network considerations Support requirements and considerations References Appendix A: Deploying Dell Networking SmartFabric Services with VxRail HCI
Appendix A: Deploying Dell Networking SmartFabric Services with VxRail HCI
SFS profile personalities
SmartFabric Service with VxRail nodes
Supported switches
Unsupported environments
Unsupported features
Topology deployment options
Uplink options
External switches
OpenManage Network Integration
Appendix B: VxRail stretched cluster validation environment Appendix C: VxRail dynamic nodes

Supported switches

Supported switches

  • To use the SFS features that this guide describes, your switches must be running SmartFabric OS10.5.0.7P3 or later, as specified in the SmartFabric OS10 Solutions (HCI, Storage, MX) Support Matrix.

    Only the Dell PowerSwitch models that are shown in the following table are supported with SFS in leaf or spine roles. SFS does not run on third-party switches or other PowerSwitch models.

    Table 7.      Supported switches

    Dell PowerSwitch model

    Typical role

    VxRail node connectivity options

    S4112F/T-ON, S4128F/T-ON, S4148F/T-ON

    Leaf

    10 GbE

    S5212F-ON, S5224F-ON, S5248F-ON, S5296F-ON

    Leaf

    10/25 GbE

    S5232F-ON, Z9264F-ON*

    Spine*

    *The roles that are shown are recommended, but Z9264F-ON is supported only as a spine. It is possible to use S5232F-ON as a leaf with ports that are connected to VxRail nodes that are broken out to 10 GbE or 25 GbE. VxRail nodes do not currently support 100 GbE NICs for VxRail system traffic.

    Any combination of the leaf and spine switches that are shown in the preceding table is supported, but leaf switches must be deployed in pairs. To meet VLT requirements, each leaf switch in the pair must be the same model.

    SFS supports up to 20 switches in the fabric, scaling to nine racks if two spine switches and 18 leaf switches are used.