Heavy Networking 534: Managing Automated Networks With vCenter And Dell SmartFabric Services (Sponsored)

Welcome to Heavy Networking, the original recipe Packet Pushers podcast running weekly for over 10 years. Adding to our decade-long conversation is sponsor Dell Technologies with a discussion of SmartFabric Services.

What is it? It’s an automated spine-leaf network for pods designed to be practical, cost-effective and aimed at making your life as an engineer easier. Maybe even easy. Could that be?

To help us figure it out is Saleem Muhammad, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Dell Technologies. In case you think Saleem is going to read bullets off of a slide because “marketing” is in his title, fear not! We had a long planning call for this show with Saleem, and he’s a fellow nerd with information and answers.

We discuss:

• Key details of SmartFabric Services
• Problems it aims to solve
• Automation and provisioning capabilities
• The infrastructure underlay and software overlay (VxLAN and EVPN)
• Interconnects for hyperconverged infrastructure
• Pod sizes
• More

Show Links:

Dell Networking

Dell Blog

Dell on Facebook

@DellNetworking – Dell Networking on Twitter

SmartFabric Services with ESXi on PowerEdge Servers – Dell EMC Solution Brief

SmartFabric Services with PowerStore storage – Dell EMC Solution Brief

ESXi on PowerEdge with SmartFabric Services – Dell Webinar on-demand, PWD: 5v%G9Ed1

SmartFabric Services for VxRail in 3 minutes​ – Dell Technologies Video

SmartFabric Services for VxRail – The Toast!​ – YouTube

3 Ways to Automate Your Data Center Network Fabric from Dell – YouTube

The Benefits of Automated Fabric Interconnects for Scaling SDDC – Webinar August 20, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT

@SaleemMuhammad – Saleem Muhammad on Twitter