- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- About this guide
- Change history
- SFS fundamentals
- Setting up SFS
- Managing SmartFabric with the SFS GUI
- Access fabric setup options
- SmartFabric overview
- View fabric topology
- Manage switches in a fabric
- Configure server interface profile
- Configure and manage uplinks
- Configure networks and routing configuration
- Configure global settings for SmartFabric
- Restore fabric configuration
- View fabric compliance status
- Access fabric setup options
- SFS with VxRail
- SFS with PowerEdge MX
- SFS for Isilon/PowerScale back-end fabric
- SmartFabric commands
- smartfabric l3fabric enable
- show logging smartfabric
- show smartfabric cluster
- show smartfabric cluster member
- show smartfabric configured-server
- show smartfabric configured-server configured-server-interface
- show smartfabric details
- show smartfabric discovered-server
- show smartfabric discovered-server discovered-server-interface
- show smartfabric networks
- show smartfabric nodes
- show smartfabric personality
- show smartfabric uplinks
- show smartfabric upgrade-status
- show smartfabric validation-errors
- show switch-operating-mode
- Best Practices
- Appendix
Dell SmartFabric Services User Guide Release 10.5.3
Server profile and server interface profile
Server profile and server interface profiles are logical entities of SFS. You configure these entities when onboarding a server to the fabric.
Server interface profile represents the server NIC ports that are connected to the leaf switches. For a server interface profile, a server interface ID must be configured using the MAC address of the server NIC port. SFS uses the server interface ID to identify the server NIC port and configure the required networks on the server NIC ports.
Server profile is a list of server interface profiles with a common bonding type. Supported bonding types are AutoDetect and LACP. You can configure a server profile using SFS GUI, see Server onboarding.
Bonding technology and NIC bonding
Bonding technology or type is a property of server profile and the supported bonding types are Autodetect and LACP. NIC bonding is a server interface profile property that determines whether the server interface profile to be in port channel or normal interface.
The table describes the behavior of SFS depending on the option of Bonding type and NIC bonding selected when configuring the server interface profile:
| Bonding technology or type | NIC bonding | SFS behavior |
|---|---|---|
| AutoDetect | Disable | The VLAN is added to the physical interface when LACP PDUs are not received. After the LACP PDUs are received, the VLAN is applied to port channel interface. |
| AutoDetect | Enable | The system waits for LACP PDUs and after the LACP PDUs are received, the VLAN is applied to port channel interface. |
| LACP | Disable | The VLAN is added to the physical interface. |
| LACP | Enable | The system waits for LACP PDUs and adds the VLAN only on the port channel interface after it receives the LACP PDUs. |
By default, the bonding type setting is AutoDetect and NIC bonding is disabled. Dell Technologies recommends that when you configure the bonding type for a server profile as LACP, you must enable NIC bonding.
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