HP 10500 Datasheet

Data sheet

HP 10500 Switch Series

Product overview

The HP 10500 Switch Series sets a new benchmark for performance, reliability, and scalability
with next-generation Clos architecture. Designed for enterprise campus core networks, the
10500 Switch Series enables a cloud-connected and rich-media-capable infrastructure. The
switch series provides industry-leading 10GbE/40GbE port density, 3-microsecond latency, and
very low energy consumption.

With HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology, the scalability and resiliency of the
10500 switch series can be extended and virtualized across up to four chassis with a single

management interface—enabling atter, more agile networks. This switch series, along with

the entire HP FlexNetwork architecture, can be seamlessly managed through the HP Intelligent
Management Center (IMC), which provides a single-pane-of-glass management view of the
infrastructure.

A summary of the highlights of the 10500 Switch Series:

• Advanced, next-generation Clos architecture

• More than 11 terabits-per-second switching capacity

• Feature-rich switch with IPv6 and MPLS functionality

• HP IRF technology virtualizes up to four chassis

• Ultra-high 1/10/40GbE density; 100GbE readiness

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Features and benets

Product architecture

Brings native high stability, independent process monitoring, and restart through the modular
design and multiple processes of HP Comware v7 software; allows individual software modules
to be upgraded for higher availability; and supports enhanced serviceability functions

• In-service software upgrade

Provides an upgrade of the entire chassis or an individual task or process, with zero packet
loss

• Distributed architecture with separation of data and control planes

Delivers enhanced fault tolerance and facilitates continuous operation and zero service
disruption during planned or unplanned control-plane events

• NEW Multitenant device context

Virtualizes a physical switch into multiple logical devices, with each logical switch having its

own processes, conguration, and administration

Performance

• High-speed fully distributed architecture

Provides up to 11.52 Tb/s switching capacity with released line cards and up to 13.72 Tb/s
switching fabric capacity with type-D fabric; leverages its modules to provide non-blocking
wire-speed 10GbE/40GbE performance and future 100GbE expansion capability; utilizes four
fabrics to deliver up to 8.571 billion pps throughput; performs all switching and routing in the
I/O modules; and meets the demand of bandwidth-intensive applications today and in the
future

• Scalable system design

Provides investment protection to support future technologies and higher-speed connectivity
with a backplane designed to accommodate bandwidth increases

• Flexible chassis selection

Enables you to tailor product selections to your budget with a choice of four chassis: the
10504 switch (four open module slots), 10508 switch (eight open module slots), 10508-V
switch (eight vertical open module slots), and 10512 switch (12 open module slots)

Connectivity

• High-density port connectivity

Oers up to 12 interface module slots; provides up to 96 40GbE ports, 576 10GbE ports, and
576 gigabit ber/electrical ports per system

• Jumbo frames

Allows high-performance backups and disaster-recovery systems; and provide a maximum

frame size of 9k bytes

• Loopback

Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and an increase in availability;

loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network congurations and can be
enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added exibility

• Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)

Detects the data link layer problems that occur in the “last mile,” using the IEEE 802.3ah OAM
standard; and monitors the status of the link between two devices

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• Flexible port selection

Provides a combination of ber and copper interface modules, 100/1000BASE-X auto-speed

selection, and 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-speed detection as well as auto-duplex and MDI/

MDI-X

• Monitor link

Collects statistics on performance and errors on physical links, increasing system availability
(Comware v5 only)

• Dual-personality functionality

Includes four 10/100/1000 ports or SFP slots for optional ber connectivity, such as Gigabit­SX, -LX, and -LH and 100-FX

• Packet storm protection

Protects against unknown broadcast, unknown multicast, or unicast storms with user-dened

thresholds

• Flow control

Provides back pressure, using standard IEEE 802.3x—reducing congestion in heavy trac

situations

Quality of service (QoS)

• IEEE 802.1p prioritization

Delivers data to devices, based on the priority and type of trac

• Class of service (CoS)

Sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on the IP address, IP type of service (ToS), L3 protocol,

TCP/ user datagram protocol (UDP) port number, source port, and DiServ

• Bandwidth shaping

– Port-based rate limiting

Enabled per-port ingress/egress-enforced bandwidth increase

– Classier-based rate limiting

Uses an access control list (ACL) to enforce increased bandwidth for ingress trac on each

port

– Reduced bandwidth

Provides per-port per-queue egress-based bandwidth reduction

• Trac policing

Supports committed access rate and line rate

• Weighted random early detection (WRED)/random early detection

Delivers congestion avoidance capabilities through the use of queue management algorithms

• Powerful QoS feature

Provides support for these congestion actions: strict priority queuing, weighted round robin,
weighted fair queuing, and WRED

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Resiliency and high availability

• Redundant/load-sharing fabrics, management, fan assemblies, and power supplies

Increase total performance and power availability, while providing hitless, stateful failovers

• All hot-swappable modules

Allows replacement of modules without any impact on other modules

• Separate data and control paths

Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; and increases security
and performance

• Passive design system

Delivers increased system reliability as the backplane has no active components

• IRF

Creates virtual resilient switching fabrics, where two or more switches perform as a single
L2 switch and L3 router; switches don’t have to be co-located and can be part of a disaster­recovery system; servers or switches can be attached using the standard link-aggregation
control protocol (LACP) for automatic load balancing and high availability; it can help eliminate
the need for complex protocols such as spanning tree protocol (STP), equal-cost multipath
(ECMP), or virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP)—simplifying network operations

• IRF capability

Provides single IP address management for a resilient virtual switching fabric of up to four
switches

• Ring resiliency protection protocol

Provides standard sub-100 ms recovery for a ring Ethernet-based topology (Comware v5 only)

• VRRP

Allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available
routed environments

• Device link detection protocol

Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional trac is

detected, helping prevent loops in STP-based networks

• Hitless patch upgrades

Allows patches and new service features to be installed without restarting the equipment,
increasing network uptime and facilitating easy maintenance

• IEEE 802.3ad LACP

Supports up to 128 trunks, each with 8 links per trunk; and provides support for static or
dynamic groups and a user-selectable hashing algorithm

• Graceful restart

Supports graceful restart for the open-shortest path rst (OSPF), intermediate system to

intermediate system (IS-IS), border gateway protocol (BGP), LDP, and RSVP; the network
remains stable during the active-standby switchover; after the switchover, the device quickly
learns the network routes by communicating with adjacent routers; and forwarding remains
uninterrupted during the switchover to achieve nonstop forwarding

• Ultrafast protocol convergence (sub-second) with standards-based failure detection—
bidirectional forwarding detection

Enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for the routing
information protocol (RIP), OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and IRF

• SmartLink

Allows 100 ms failover between links (Comware v5 only)

• Multiple internal power supplies

Provides high reliability; the 10504 switch provides 3+1 redundancy; and the 10508, 10508-V,
and 10512 switches provide 5+1 redundancy

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Virtual private network (VPN)

• IPSec

Provides secure tunneling over an untrusted network, such as the Internet or a wireless

network; and oers data condentiality, authenticity, and integrity between two network

endpoints

• Generic routing encapsulation (GRE)

Transports L2 connectivity over an L3 path in a secured way; and enables the segregation of

trac from site to site

• Manual or automatic Internet key exchange (IKE)

Enables the manual or automatic key exchange required for the algorithms used in encryption
or authentication; auto-IKE allows automated management of the public key exchange,
helping ensure the highest levels of encryption

Management

• Management interface control

Enables or disables each of these interfaces, depending on security preferences: console port,
telnet port, or reset button

• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure

Reduces training time and expenses; and increases productivity in multivendor installations

• Management security

Restricts access to critical conguration commands; oers multiple privilege levels with

password protection; uses ACLs to provide telnet and SNMP access; and allows logging of all
access with local and remote syslog capabilities

• SNMPv1, v2, and v3

Provide complete support of the SNMP and industry-standard management information base
(MIB) as well as private extensions; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption

• sFlow (RFC 3176)

Provides scalable ASIC-based wire-speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact
on network performance; this allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated
network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-time network monitoring
purposes

• Remote monitoring (RMON)

Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; and supports events, alarms,
history, and statistics groups as well as a private alarm extension group

• FTP, trivial FTP (TFTP), and secure FTP (SFTP) support

Oers dierent mechanisms for conguration updates; the FTP allows bidirectional transfers

over a TCP/IP network; the TFTP is a simpler method that uses the UDP; and the SFTP runs
over an secure shell (SSH) tunnel to provide additional security

• Debug and sampler utility

Supports ping and trace-route for both IPv4 and IPv6

• Network time protocol (NTP)

Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; and keeps timekeeping
consistent among all clock-dependent devices within the network, so that the devices can
provide diverse applications, based on the consistent time

• Network quality analyzer

Analyzes network performance and service quality by sending test packets; provides network
performance and service quality parameters such as jitter, TCP, or FTP connection delays

and le transfer rates; and allows a network manager to determine the overall network

performance as well as diagnose and locate network congestion points or failures

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• Information center

Provides a central repository for system and network information; aggregates all logs, traps,
and debugging information generated by the system and maintains them in the order of

severity; and sends out the network information to multiple channels, based on user-dened

rules

• IEEE 802.1ab link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP)

Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network,
facilitating easy mapping by network management applications

• Dual ash images

Provides independent primary and secondary operating system les for backup while

upgrading

• Multiple conguration les

Are easily stored with a ash image

L2 switching

• VLAN

Supports up to 4,096 port-based or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs; and supports MAC-based
VLANs, protocol-based VLANs, and IP-subnet-based VLANs for added exibility (Comware v7

only supports port-based VLANs)

• Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) tunneling

Transmits STP BPDUs transparently, allowing correct tree calculations across service
providers, WANs, or MANs

• GARP VLAN registration protocol

Allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs (Comware v5 only)

• Port mirroring

Duplicates port trac (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port; and supports

four mirroring groups, with an unlimited number of ports per group

• STP

Supports the standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w rapid STP for faster convergence, and
IEEE 802.1s multiple STP

• Internet-group-management protocol (IGMP) and multicast-listener-discovery (MLD) protocol
snooping

Controls and manages the ooding of multicast packets in an L2 network

• IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q and selective Q-in-Q

Increase the scalability of an Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure; and
connect multiple LANs on a high-speed campus or metro network

• Per-VLAN spanning tree plus

Allows each VLAN to build a separate spanning tree to improve link bandwidth usage in
network environments with multiple VLANs (Comware v5 only)

• Isolation at data-link layer with private VLANs

Provides—through a two-tier VLAN structure—an additional layer of protection, simplifying

network conguration while saving VLAN resources

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