Dell SmartFabric

Dell SmartFabric (OS10) is a highly aggressive, incredibly strategic leviathan that completely dominates the "Converged Infrastructure" sector. Dell realized that most mid-market enterprises do not have dedicated network engineers; they have Server/Storage Admins who are terrified of networking. Dell mathematically engineered SmartFabric to be completely autonomous, designed explicitly to automatically configure the network the instant a Dell VxRail server or Dell Storage array is plugged into it. Its absolute biggest differentiator is "The VxRail Autonomous Synergy." When a company buys a massive Dell VxRail Hyperconverged cluster, they plug the servers into the Dell SmartFabric switches. The switches and the servers mathematically talk to each other. The SmartFabric engine instantly, automatically configures the correct VLANs, the QoS (Quality of Service) policies for the storage traffic, and the uplinks, completely eliminating the need for a human network engineer. Because it targets enterprise IT, its "vCenter Integration" is legendary. The IT administrator manages the entire Dell physical switch fabric directly from inside the VMware vCenter console. If the admin creates a new virtual machine in vCenter, the Dell SmartFabric mathematically detects the creation and automatically configures the physical switch port to accept that specific VM's traffic, creating a mathematically perfect, zero-touch network automation pipeline.