HP 5500 HI User Manual
HPE 5500 HI Switch Series
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Key features
• High expandability for investment protection
• Premium resiliency and integrated management
• SDN readiness with OpenFlow support
• Fully featured IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
• 1440 W of PoE+ power using dual power supplies for high resiliency
Product overview
The HPE 5500 HI Switch Series comprises Gigabit Ethernet switches that deliver outstanding
resiliency, security, and multiservice support capabilities at the edge layer of data center, large
campus, and metro Ethernet networks. The switches can also be used in the core layer of
SMB networks.
With Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) support and available dual power supplies,
the HPE 5500 HI Switch Series can deliver the highest levels of resiliency and manageability.
In addition, the PoE+ models provide up to 1440 W of PoE+ power with the dual power
supply configuration.
Designed with two fixed 10GbE ports and extension module flexibility, these switches can
provide up to six 10GbE uplink or 70GbE ports. With complete IPv4/IPv6, OpenFlow, and
MPLS/VPLS features, the series provides investment protection with an easy transition from
IPv4 to IPv6 networks.
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Features and benefits
Software-defined networking
• OpenFlow
Supports OpenFlow 13 specification to enable SDN by allowing separation of the data
(packet forwarding) and control (routing decision) paths
Quality of Service (QoS)
• 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 selected traic on a per-port or
per-VLAN basis
• Traic policing
Supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
• Powerful QoS feature
Creates traic classes based on access control lists (ACLs), IEEE 8021p precedence, IP,
and DSCP or Type of Service (ToS) precedence; supports filter, redirect, mirror, or remark;
supports the following congestion actions: strict priority (SP) queuing, weighted round robin
(WRR), weighted fair queuing (WFQ), weighted random early discard (WRED), weighted deficit
round robin (WDRR), SP+WDRR, and SP+WFQ
• Storm restraint
Allows limitation of broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traic rate to reduce unwanted
broadcast traic on the network
Management
• Friendly port names
Allow assignment of descriptive names to ports
• 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
• Complete session logging
Provides detailed information for problem identification and resolution
• Remote configuration and management
Enable configuration and management through a Web browser with advanced security features
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
• Management VLAN
Segments traic to and from management interfaces, including CLI/Telnet, a Web browser interface,
and SNMP
• Command authorization
Leverages RADIUS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network
administrator’s login; an audit trail documents activity
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• Secure Web GUI
Provides an easy-to-use graphical interface with advanced security features for configuring
the module via HTTPS
• 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
• Remote intelligent mirroring
Mirrors ingress/egress ACL-selected traic from a switch port or VLAN to a local or remote
switch port anywhere on the network
• 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
Provides automatic adjustments for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100 and
10/100/1000 por ts
• Packet storm protection
Protects against broadcast, multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined thresholds
• 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
• Flow Control
Provides back pressure using standard IEEE 8023x, reducing congestion in heavy traic situations
• Fixed 10GbE ports
Provide two fixed SFP+ ports for a 20GbE connection to the network without the need for
additional extension interface modules
• 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
• Optional eight-port SFP module
Adds up to eight additional wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet ports for unprecedented Gigabit density
in a single 1U enclosure
• Jumbo packet support
Supports up to 12288-byte frame size to improve the performance of large data transfers
• High-bandwidth CX4 local stacking
Achieves 12 Gbps per connection when using local CX4 stacking, allowing for up to 96 Gbps
total stacking bandwidth (full duplex) in a resilient stacking configuration
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• IEEE 8023at Power over Ethernet (PoE+)
Provides up to 30 W per port that allows support for the latest PoE+-capable devices such as
IP phones, wireless access points, and security cameras, as well as any IEEE 8023af compliant
end device; reduces the cost of additional electrical cabling and circuits that would otherwise
be necessary in IP phone and WLAN deployments
Performance
• Hardware-based wire-speed 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
• Nonblocking architecture
Delivers up to 224 Gbps of wire-speed switching with a nonblocking switching fabric
and up to 167 million pps throughput
Resiliency and high availability
• Separate data and control paths
Separate control from services and keeps service processing isolated; increase security
and performance
• Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)
Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional traic is detected,
preventing loops in STP-based networks
• 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 reduce the need for complex protocols like Spanning Tree Protocol, Equal-Cost
Multipath (ECMP), or VRRP, thereby simplifying network operation
• 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
• Smart Link
Allows 50 ms failover between links
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available
routed environments
• IRF capability
Provides single IP address management for a resilient virtual switching fabric of up to nine switches
using up to 80 Gbps links
Manageability
• Dual flash images
Provide independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
• Multiple configuration files
Allow multiple configuration files to be stored to a flash image
• IEEE 8021AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Facilitates easy mapping using network management applications with LLDP automated device
discovery protocol
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• Troubleshooting
Allows ingress and egress port monitoring, enabling network problem solving; virtual cable
tests provide visibility into cable problems
• IPv6 management
Future-proofs networking, as the switch is capable of being managed whether the attached
network is running IPv4 or IPv6; supports pingv6, tracertv6, Telnetv6, TFTPv6, DNSv6, and ARPv6
Layer 2 switching
• GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
Allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs
• IP multicast snooping and data-driven IGMP
Automatically prevents flooding of IP multicast traic
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
protocol snooping
Control and manage the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2 network
• 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
• 10GbE port aggregation
Allows grouping of ports to increase overall data throughput to a remote device
• Spanning Tree/MSTP, RSTP, and STP root guard
Prevent network loops
• 32 MSTP instances
Allow multiple configurations of STP per VLAN group
• Isolation at data link layer with private VLANs
Provides, through a two-tier VLAN structure, an additional layer of protection, simplifying
network configuration while saving VLAN resources
• VLAN support and tagging
Supports the IEEE 8021Q (4094 VLAN IDs)
Layer 3 services
• Loopback interface address
Defines an address in Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Standard Path First
(OSPF), improving diagnostic capability
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; supports static ARPs;
gratuitous ARP allows detection of duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows normal ARP
operation between subnets or when subnets are separated by a Layer 2 network
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay
enables DHCP operation across subnets
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