HPE Slingshot Network Operator

Starting in the HPE Slingshot 2.3.0 release, the HPE Slingshot Network Operator is installed as part of the Fabric Manager install. It is a Kubernetes operator that is designed to support multi-tenancy in CSM 1.6 and later releases.

For more information on the HPE Slingshot Network Operator, see the “HPE Slingshot Network Operator for CSM Multi-Tenancy” section in the HPE Slingshot Administration Guide. Search for this document on the HPE Support Center.

Use the following table to determine which version of the HPE Slingshot documentation applies to your Fabric Manager deployment:

Fabric Manager deployment model Documentation to use
Fabric Manager running as a Kubernetes pod HPE Slingshot 2.3.x documentation
Fabric Manager running on a bare metal server HPE Slingshot 3.1.0 documentation

The HPE Slingshot documentation outlines several critical tasks, including:

  • Enabling the HPE Slingshot Network Operator
  • Creating HPE Slingshot tenants
  • Modifying HPE Slingshot tenants
  • Updating VNI and tenant node component names (xnames)
  • Removing HPE Slingshot tenants