Dell MX5108N User Manual

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DELL EMC MX5108N ETHERNET SWITCH

High performance 25 Gigabit Ethernet switch for single PowerEdge MX7000 chassis deployments

The Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Ethernet Switch is a highperformance,low latency single chassis 25Gbps Ethernet switch purpose-built for the PowerEdge™ MX platform providing enhanced capabilities and cost-eectiveness for enterprise and mid-market environments with traditional compute trac environments.

Delivering industry leading performance in a blade switch, the nonblocking switching architecture in the MX5108n provides line-rate 25GbE L2 and L3 forwarding capacity with no oversubscription and a sub 800ns latency. In addition to 8 internal 25GbE ports, the MX5108nprovides four 10G-BaseT, two QSFP28 100GbE, and one QSFP+40GbE port for uplinks.

Maximum performance and functionality

The Dell EMC Networking MX5108n is a high-performance, multifunction, 25GbE Ethernet switch designed for applications in demanding data center, cloud and computing environments. The MX5108n also supports the open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of alternate operating systems in future releases.

OS10 SmartFabric

SmartFabric OS10 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 network functionality. While OS10 contributions to Open Source provide users freedom and exibility to pick their own 3rd party networking, monitoring, management and orchestration applications, OS10 bundles an industry hardened networking stack featuring standard L2 and L3 protocols over a standard and well accepted CLI interface.

SmartFabric Services

Included in SmartFabric OS10, SmartFabric Services provides single pane of glass management and automation across every fabric in a PowerEdge MX deployment, up to the 20 chassis Multi-Chassis Management group limit. SmartFabric Services key features include:

• I/O Aggregation to simplify connectivity to existing networks

• Integration of VLAN and automated QoS settings with Server Deployment Templates

• Fabric-wide rmware upgrades and conguration consistency checks

• Automatic topology validation – detects physical topology miscongurations and provides corrective guidance

• Automatically heals fabric upon failure condition removal

Key applications

• Organizations looking to enter the software-dened data center era with a choice of networking technologies designed to deliver the exibility they need

• Native 25 GbE server access in high-performance data center environments

• 25 GbE backward compatible to 10G and 1G for future proong and data center server migration to faster uplink speeds.

• iSCSI storage deployment including DCB converged lossless transactions

Key features

• Up to 960Gbps of switching I/O bandwidth (full duplex) available and non-blocking switching fabric delivering line-rate performance under full load with sub usec latency

• Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet switching with QoS and a full complement of standards-based IPv4 and IPv6 features, including OSPF and BGP routing support

• L2 multipath support via Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) and multiple VLT (mVLT) multi-chassis link aggregation technology

• NVMe-oF ready to support the next generation of high performance storage

• Jumbo frame support for large data transfers

• 128 link aggregation groups with up to sixteen members per group, using enhanced hashing

• Converged network support for DCB, with priority ow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV support

• Supports Routable RoCE to enable convergence of compute and storage

Key features with OS10

• Consistent DevOps framework across compute, storage and networking elements

• Standard networking features, interfaces and scripting functions for legacy network operations integration

• Standards-based switching hardware abstraction via Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)

• Pervasive, unrestricted developer environment via Control Plane Services (CPS)

• Open and programmatic management interface via Common Management Services (CMS)

• OS10 software enables Dell EMC layer 2 and 3 switching and routing protocols with integrated IP Services, Quality of Service, Manageability and Automation features

• Platform agnostic via standard hardware abstraction layer (OCPSAI)

• Unmodied Linux kernel and unmodied Linux distribution

• Leverage common open source tools and best-practices (data models, commit rollbacks)

• Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet Switching with QoS, ACL and a full complement of standards based IPv4 and IPv6 features including OSPF, BGP and PBR

Product Description

MX5108n Ethernet Switch

Transceiver, 100GbE, SR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, LR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, ESR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, PSM4 500m QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, CWDM4 2Km QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, SWDM4 100m QSFP28

Optics

Cables

Software

Transceiver, 100GbE, BIDI optic QSFP28 Transceiver, 40GbE, SR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, eSR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, LR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, BIDI optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, PSM4 10Km QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, LM4 Duplex QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, SM4 Duplex QSFP+

100GbE, QSFP28 to QSFP28, active optical, passive DAC 100GbE, QSFP28 to 4xSFP28 (4x10/25GbE), active optical, passive DAC 100GbE, MTP to MTP optical 100GbE, MTP to 4xLC optical breakout 40GbE, QSFP+ to QSFP+, active optical & passive DAC 40GbE, QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ (4x10GbE), active optical & passive DAC

SmartFabric OS10 Select third-party operating system oerings (future)

• Enhanced mirroring capabilities including local mirroring, Remote Port Mirroring (RPM), and Encapsulated Remote Port Mirroring (ERPM)

• Converged network support for DCB, with priority ow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV

• Rogue NIC control provides hardware-based protection from NICS sending out excessive pause frames

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