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Validation Guide—Dell EMC VxRail Hyperconverged Infrastructure on SAP HANA

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Appendix A: Deploying Dell EMC Networking SmartFabric Services with VxRail HCI
Appendix A: Deploying Dell EMC 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

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 EMC PowerSwitch systems 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 4.              Supported switches

    Dell EMC 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 shown are recommended, but Z9264F-ON is supported only as a spine. It is possible to use S5232F-ON as a leaf with ports 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.

    While any combination of the leaf and spine switches shown in the preceding table is supported, 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.