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Planning Guide—Dell EMC VxRail with SmartFabric Services

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VxRail with SFS Network Design
Introduction to network design SmartFabric network topology standards and concepts Network design Layer 2/Layer 3 boundary decision VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Single rack VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Single rack to VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Multirack with leaf border VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Multirack with spine border VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Multirack with dedicated leaf border

VxRail-SmartFabric topology: Multirack with leaf border

  • The expansion from a single rack fabric to a multirack fabric provides the option to keep upstream connectivity at the leaf layer or move upstream connectivity to the spine layer. For upstream connectivity at the leaf layer, a set of leaf switches can be selected to serve as the boundary between the switch fabric and upstream network.

    Figure 11.          SmartFabric topology for multirack with Layer 2 uplinks at leaf layer

    For connectivity to the upstream network, either Layer 2 or Layer 3 protocols can be enabled.

    Figure 12.          VxRail-SmartFabric Topology: MultiRack with Layer 3 Leaf Border