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Dell EMC Networking with Isilon Front-End Deployment and Best Practices Guide | version 1.0
Table of contents
1
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1
Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2
Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
2
Hardware overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.2
Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.3
Dell EMC Networking Z9100-ON ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.4
Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd ........................................................................................................................... 8
2.5
Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 ............................................................................................................................... 9
2.6
Isilon X210 .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
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Management ............................................................................................................................................................... 10
4
Leaf-spine overview ................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.1
Design considerations ...................................................................................................................................... 11
4.2
Oversubscription ............................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3
Scaling .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.4
Layer 3 leaf-spine topology .............................................................................................................................. 14
4.5
Layer 2 leaf-spine topology .............................................................................................................................. 15
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Layer 3 Topology preparation .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.1
BGP ASN configuration .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.2
Loopback addresses ........................................................................................................................................ 16
5.3
Point-to-point interfaces .................................................................................................................................... 17
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Configuration of Layer 3 Topology ............................................................................................................................. 19
6.1
Configuration of Z9100-ON OS10EE Spine Switches...................................................................................... 19
6.2
Configuration of S4048-ON OS10EE Leaf Switches ........................................................................................ 23
6.3
Configuration of S4048-ON OS9 Leaf Switches .............................................................................................. 32
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Configuration of Layer 2 Topology ............................................................................................................................. 41
7.1
Configuration of Z9100-ON OS10EE Spine Switches...................................................................................... 41
7.2
Configuration of S4048-ON OS10EE Leaf Switches ........................................................................................ 45
7.3
Configuration of S4048-ON OS9 Leaf Switches .............................................................................................. 50
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Validation .................................................................................................................................................................... 58
8.1
OS10EE Validation commands ........................................................................................................................ 58
8.2
OS9 Validation commands ............................................................................................................................... 63
