SmartFabric OS10 Spec Sheet

SmartFabric OS10 Specification Sheet

The Dell SmartFabric OS10 Enterprise Edition is a Network

Operating System supporting multiple architectures and
environments. The networking world is moving from a
monolithic stack to a pick-your-own-world. The OS10 solution
is designed to allow multi-layered disaggregation of the
network functionality. While OS10 contributions to Open
Source provide users freedom and flexibility to pick their
own 3rd party networking, monitoring, management and
orchestration applications, OS10 Enterprise Edition bundles
industry hardened networking stack featuring standard L2
and L3 protocols over a standard and well accepted CLI
interface.

Key Features of Dell SmartFabric OS10

• Standard networking features, interfaces and scripting functions for legacy network operations integration
• Standards-based switching hardware abstraction via Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)
• Consistent DevOps framework across compute, storage and networking elements
• Pervasive, unrestricted developer environment via Control Plane Services (CPS)
• Layer 2 and 3 switching and routing protocols, along with Multicast and integrated IP services, quality of service,
manageability and automation features
• Unmodified Linux kernel and unmodified Linux distribution
• Leverage common open source tools and best practices (YANG data models, commit scratchpad)
• Programmatic APIs, CLI automation using batch and aliases to simplify configuration management.
• Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet Switching designed for Highly Scalable Data Center fabric with state-of-the-art
implementation of Multi-Chassi LAG (VLT) QoS, ACL and standards based IPv4, IPv6, and Multicast features
• Multi-tenancy support using VRF LITE, VMWare NSX integrations, and standards based Overlays (BGP EVPN)
• Datacenter Interconnect & optimizations using BGP EVPN Symmetric IRB, unnumbered, ARP suppression, Type 5
routes. Dynamic route leaking across VRFs using route map based policies and RT mechanisms available in EVPN.
• Increase VM Mobility region by stretching L2 VLAN within or across two DCs with VxLAN & VLT capabilities.
• Converged network support for Data Center Bridging, with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and
iSCSI TLV
• Software Defined Networking using Openflow 1.0/1.3 standards with Multiple controllers support for HA
• Enhanced debugging & troubleshooting capabilities including local mirroring, Encapsulated Remote Port Mirroring
(ERPM), Flows Sampling (sFLOW)
• Network Streaming Telemetry monitoring sensors, transmitting telemetry data using gPB and gRPC transport.
• OpenConfig gNMI interface for system Management, Symmetric Hashing support for LAG & ECMP
• Microsoft NLB cluster support, PTP G.8275.2 telecom profile support, SyncE and Hybrid PTP

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SmartFabric Services
Dell SmartFabric OS10 includes SmartFabric Services (SFS). With SFS, customers can quickly and easily deploy and
automate data center networking fabrics.
There are two types of SFS:
• SFS for Leaf and Spine – supported on selected PowerSwitch S and Z series switches
• SFS for PowerEdge MX – supported on selected modular switches

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 Technical specifications
IEEE Compliance 1918 Address Allocation for Private L2 & L3 Gateway with VxLAN Tunnels
802.1AB LLDP Internets BGP EVPN Asymmetic IRB
TIA-1057 LLDP-MED 2474 Diffserv Field in IPv4 and Ipv6 Symmetric IRB
802.3ad Link Aggregation Headers Type 5 Routes
802.1D Bridging, STP 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group Centralized and Distributed Routing
802.1p L2 Prioritization 3195 Reliable Delivery for Syslog Anycast VTEP Gateway
802.1Q VLAN Tagging , Q-in-Q 3246 Expedited Forwarding PHB Group
802.1Qbb PFC VRF Linux Distribution
802.1Qaz ETS BGPv4 & v6 Debian Linux version 9
802.1X Network Access Control OSPFv2 & v3 Linux Kernel 4.9
802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN Static Routes
Tagging InterVRF Routing MIBS
802.3x Flow Control Route leaking across VRFs BRIDGE-MIB
ENTITY-MIB
Layer2 Protocols General IPv6 Protocols EtherLike-MIB
802.1D Compatible 1981 Path MTU for IPv6 HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB
802.1p L2 Prioritization 2372 IPv6 Addressing IEEE8021-PFC-MIB
802.1Q VLAN Tagging 2460 IPv6 Protocol Specification IEEE8023-LAG-MIB
802.1s MSTP 2461 Neighbor Discovery IF-MIB
802.1w RSTP 2462 Stateless Address AutoConfig IP-FORWARD-MIB
802.1t RPVST+ 2711 IPv6 Router alert IP-MIB
7348 VxLAN 2463 ICMPv6 LLDP-EXT-DOT1-MIB
5517 PVLAN 2464 Ethernet Transmission LLDP-EXT-DOT3-MIB
VLT (Virtual Link Trunking) 2675 IPv6 Jumbograms LLDP-MIB
VRRP Active/Active 3484 Default Address Selection OSPF-MIB
RSTP, MSTP, RPVST+ 3493 Basic Socket Interface OSPFV3-MIB
Port Mirroring on VLT ports 4291 Addressing Architecture Q-BRIDGE-MIB (Get)
DCB, iSCSI, FSB, FCoE on VLT 3542 Advanced Sockets API RFC1213-MIB
RPM/ERPM over VLT 3587 Global Unicast Address Format SFLOW-MIB
VLT Minloss upgrade 4291 IPv6 Addressing SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
VxLAN with VLT 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over SNMP-MPD-MIB
VRF with VLT Ethernet Networks SNMPv2-MIB
IGMP/MLD snooping over VLT 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option TCP-MIB
PIM SM/SSM over VLT 4007 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture UDP-MIB
PVLAN with VLT 4213 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
Anycast Gateway with Virtual IP for VLT & and Routers SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
eVLT 3633 DHCPv6 Relay SNMP-TARGET-MIB
Delay restore ports and Delay restore orphan IPv6 Static Routes
ports 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 Network Management and Monitoring
6105 IPv6 RA Guard SNMPv1/v2c/v3
RFC Compliance 4191 Default router preferences and more IPv4/IPv6 Management support (Telnet, FTP,
768 UDP specific routes TACACS, RADIUS, SSH, NTP)
793 TCP 5175 IPv6 RA flag options Port Mirroring
854 Telnet Remote Port Monitoring
959 FTP OSPF (RPM)/Enhanced RPM (aka SPAN/RSPAN/
1321 MD5 1745 OSPF/BGP interaction ERSPAN by some vendors)
1350 TFTP 1765 OSPF Database overflow 3176 SFlow
2474 Differentiated Services 2154 OSPF with DigitalSignatures Support Assist (Phone Home)
2698 Two Rate Three Color Marker 2328 OSPFv2 RestConf APIs, Auto-docs
3164 Syslog (with TLS support) 5340 OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) XML Schema
4254 SSHv2 2370 Opaque LSA CLI Commit (Scratchpad)
3101 OSPF NSSA Uplink Failure Detection
General IPv4 Protocols 4552 OSPFv3 Authentication Object Tracking
791 IPv4 FarEnd Failure Detection
792 ICMP BGP Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) –
826 ARP 1997 Communities BGPv4/6, OSPFv2/3, Static Routes
1027 Proxy ARP 2385 MD5 Streaming Telemetry
1035 DNS (client) 2439 Route Flap Damping System, Buffers, Data monitoring
1042 Ethernet Transmission 2796 Route Reflection gRPC Transport with gPB encoding
1191 Path MTU Discovery 2918 Route Refresh
1305 NTPv4 (with DST support) 3065 Confederations Automation
1519 CIDR 4271 BGP-4 Control Plane Services APIs
1812 Routers, Static Routes 2545 BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for Linux Utilities and Scripting Tools
1858 IP Fragment Filtering IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing CLI Automation (Multiline Alias)
2131 DHCPv4 (server and relay) 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)
DHCP Snooping (v4) 4360 Extended Communities Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack
DHCP sub options: 4893 4-byte ASN 3rd Party Packages support on Docker
3527 Link-selection (5) 5396 4-byte ASN Representation Container
5107 Server Override (11) 5492 Capabilities Advertisement
6607 Virtual Subnet Selection (151/152) 5549 BGP Unnumbered
5798 VRRPv3 BGP ADD PATH
3021 31-bit Prefixes BGP to OSPF route distribution
1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers BGP EVPN

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Quality of Service Security FibreChannel
Prefix List 2865 RADIUS FCF F-Port
Route-Map 3162 Radius and IPv6 FC Zoning
Rate Shaping (Egress) 3579 Radius support for EAP FIP Snooping
Rate Policing (Ingress) 3580 802.1X with RADIUS Multihop FSB, N Port, E Port
Scheduling Algorithms 3826 AES Cipher in SNMP Optimizie FC rebalance (1 FCF per vFabric)
Round Robin 1492 TACACS (Authentication, Accounting,
Weighted Round Robin Authorization) Software Defined Networking
Deficit Round Robin 6187 CAC/PIV – X.509v3 Certificates for OpenFlow 1.3 (Native)
Strict Priority SSH Multiple Controllers HA
Weighted Random Early Detect Control Plane, VTY & SNMP ACLs
IP Access Control Lists PTP & SyncE profiles
Multicast Privlege Levels G.8275.1, G.8271.1, G.8273.2, G.8275.2,
2236 IGMPv2 Snooping Port Security G.8261, G.8262, G.8262.1, G.8264, Hybrid PTP
3810 MLDv2 Snooping Digitally signed OS10 images & SyncE, ESMC
4604 IGMPv3 AAA
4601 PIM SM (IPv4 & IPv6), PIM ACLs
4607 PIM SSM (IPv4 & IPv6) Data center bridging
5059 BSR (IPv4 only) 802.1Qbb Priority-Based Flow Control
4610 Anycast RP using PIM-SM (IPv4 only) 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection
(ETS)
Explicit Congestion Notification
Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBx)
DCBx Application TLV (iSCSI, FCoE)
RoCEv2

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July 2022 (updated based on 10.5.4.0)

Dell SmartFabric OS10 Spec Sheet