HP 5500 EI User Manual
HPE 5500 EI Switch Series
Data sheet
Key features
• High expandability for investment protection
• Premium security and integrated management
• Multilayer reliability
• Convergence-ready support
• Outstanding quality of service (QoS)
Product overview
These Gigabit Ethernet switches deliver outstanding security, reliability, and multiservice
support capabilities for robust switching at the edge or aggregation layer of large enterprise
and campus networks, or in the core layer of SMB networks. The HPE 5500 EI Switch Series
consists of Layer 2 or 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches that can accommodate the most demanding
applications and provide resilient and secure connectivity as well as the latest traic prioritization
technologies to enhance applications on convergent networks. With complete IPv4 or IPv6
dual-stack support, the series provides a migration path from IPv4 to IPv6 and has hardware support
for IPv6. Designed for increased flexibility, these switches are available with 24 or 48 Gigabit
Ethernet ports. Power over Ethernet (PoE) and non-PoE models are available with optional
1GbE and 10GbE expansion capability. The all-fiber model with dual power supplies is ideal
for applications that require the highest availability.
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Features and benefits
Software-defined networking
• OpenFlow
Supports OpenFlow 13 specifications to enable SDN by allowing separation of the data
(packet forwarding) and control (routing decision) paths
Quality of service (QoS)
• Storm restraint
Allows limitation of broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traic rate to cut down on
unwanted broadcast traic on the network
• Advanced classifier-based QoS
Classifies traic using multiple match criteria based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information; applies
QoS policies, such as setting priority level and rate limit, to bi-directional selected traic on
a per-port, per-VLAN, or whole switch basis
• Powerful QoS feature
Creates traic classes based on ACLs, IEEE 8021p precedence, IP, DSCP, or ToS precedence;
supports filter, redirect, mirror, or remark; supports the following congestion actions: strict
priority queuing (SP), weighted round robin (WRR), SP+WRR, weighted fair queuing (WFQ),
and weighted random early discard (WRED)
• Traic policing
Supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
Management
• Friendly port names
Allows assignment of descriptive names to ports
• Remote configuration and management
Enables configuration and management through a secure Web browser or a CLI located
on a remote device
• Manager and operator privilege levels
Provide read-only (operator) and read/write (manager) access on CLI and Web browser
management interfaces
• Command authorization
Leverages HWTACACS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network
administrator’s login; also provides an audit trail
• Secure Web GUI
Provides a secure, easy-to-use graphical interface for configuring the module via HTTPS
• Dual flash images
Provide independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
• Multiple configuration files
Store easily to the flash image
• Complete session logging
Provides detailed information for problem identification and resolution
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• SNMPv1, v2c, and v3
Facilitate centralized discovery, monitoring, and secure management of networking devices
• Remote monitoring (RMON)
Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; supports events, alarm, history,
and statistics group plus a private alarm extension group
• IEEE 8021AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network,
facilitating easy mapping by network management applications
• sFlow (RF C 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
• Management VLAN
Segments traic to and from management interfaces, including CLI or telnet, a Web browser
interface, and SNMP
• Remote Intelligent Mirroring
Mirrors ingress or egress ACL-selected traic from a switch port or VLAN to a local or remote
switch port anywhere on the network
• Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)
Monitors a cable between two switches and shuts down the ports on both ends if the cable
is broken, preventing network problems such as loops
• IPv6 management
Provides future-proof networking because the switch is capable of being managed whether
the attached network is running IPv4 or IPv6; supports pingv6, tracertv6, Telnetv6, TFTPv6,
DNSv6, syslogv6, FTPv6, SNMPv6, DHCPv6, and RADIUS for IPv6
• Troubleshooting
Ingress and egress port monitoring enables network problem-solving; virtual cable tests
provide visibility into cable problems
• In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
Enables operators to perform upgrades in the shortest possible amount of time with reduced
risk to network operations or traic disruptions
Connectivity
• Auto-MDIX
Automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100/1000 ports
• Flow control
Provides back pressure using standard IEEE 8023x, reducing congestion in heavy traic situations
• Jumbo packet support
Supports up to 9216-byte frame size to improve the performance of large data transfers
• High-density port connectivity
Provides up to 48 fixed 10/100/1000BASE-T or 24 SFP 100/1000BASE-X ports in a Layer 2
or Layer 3 stackable switch supporting unique IRF stacking
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• IEEE 8023at Power over Ethernet (PoE+) support
Simplifies deployment and dramatically reduces installation costs by helping to reduce the
time and cost involved in supplying local power at each access point location
• Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)
Detects data link layer problems that occurred in the last mile using the IEEE 8023ah OAM
standard; monitors the status of the link between two devices
• High-bandwidth CX4 and SFP+ local stacking
Provides 10 Gbps SPF+ or 12 Gbps CX4 local stacking cables; achieves a resilient stacking
configuration
• Optional 10GbE ports
Deliver, through the use of optional modules, additional 10GbE connections, which are
available for uplinks or high-bandwidth server connections; flexibly support copper, XFP,
SFP+, or CX4 local connections
Performance
• Nonblocking architecture
Up to 192 Gbps nonblocking switching fabric provides wire-speed switching with up to 143 million
pps throughput
• Hardware-based wirespeed access control lists (ACLs)
Help provide high levels of security and ease of administration without impacting network
performance with a feature-rich TCAM-based ACL implementation
Resiliency and high availability
• Separate data and control paths
Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and
performance
• External redundant power supply
Provides high reliability
• Smart link
Allows 50 ms failover between links
• Spanning Tree or MSTP, RSTP
Provide redundant links while preventing network loops
• Rapid Ring Protection Protocol (RRPP)
Connects multiple switches in a high-performance ring using standard Ethernet technology;
traic can be rerouted around the ring in less than 50 ms, reducing the impact on traic and
applications
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Allows a group of routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed
environments
• Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
Creates virtual resilient switching fabrics, where two or more switches perform as a single L2
switch and L3 router; switches do not have to be co-located and can be part of a disaster-recovery
system; servers or switches can be attached using standard LACP for automatic load balancing
and high availability; can remove the need for complex protocols like Spanning Tree Protocol,
Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP), or VRRP, thereby simplifying network operation
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• IP Fast Reroute (FRR)
Forms backup paths and allows 50 ms switchover in case of a main path fault
• IRF capability
Provides single IP address management for a resilient virtual switching fabric of up to nine switches
Layer 2 switching
• 32K MAC addresses
Provide access to many Layer 2 devices
• IEEE 8021ad QinQ and selective QinQ
Increase the scalability of an Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure; connect
multiple LANs on a high-speed campus or metro network
• GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
Allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs
• IEEE 8021ad QinQ
Increases the scalability of an Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure;
connects multiple LANs on a high-speed campus or metro network
• 10GbE port aggregation
Allows grouping of ports to increase overall data throughput to a remote device
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
protocol snooping
Controls and manages the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2 network
Layer 3 services
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay
enables DHCP operation across subnets
• Loopback interface address
Define an address in Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Standard Path First (OSPF),
improving diagnostic capability
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) helper function
Allows UDP broadcasts to be directed across router interfaces to specific IP unicast or subnet
broadcast addresses and prevents server spoofing for UDP services such as DHCP
• Route maps
Provide more control during route redistribution; allow filtering and altering of route metrics
Layer 3 routing
• IPv4 routing protocols
Support static routes, RIP, OSPF, ISIS, and BGP
• IPv6 routing protocols
Provide routing of IPv6 at wire speed; support static routes, RIPng, OSPFv3, IS-ISv6, and
BGP4+ for IPv6
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