HP E8200 zl User Manual

Data sheet

HP 8200 zl Switch Series

Product overview

The HP 8200 zl Switch Series oers high performance, scalability, and a wide range of features in a high-availability platform that dramatically reduces complexity and the total cost of ownership. As part of a unied wired and wireless network infrastructure solution, the 8200 zl Switch Series provides platform technology, system software, system management, application integration, wired and wireless integration, network security, and support that are common across HP modular and xed-port switches. Together, these features deliver an agile, cost-eective, high-availability network solution.

With key technologies to provide solution longevity, the 8200 zl Switch Series delivers longterm investment protection—without added complexity for network core, aggregation, and high-availability access layer deployments. In addition to all of these capabilities, this switch series comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty 2.0—making it a compelling switching solution.

A summary of the highlights of the 8200 zl Switch Series:

• Core, distribution, mission-critical access layer

• Advanced high-availability switches

• Integration with HP AllianceONE solutions

• L2-to-L4 intelligent edge feature set

• Enterprise-class performance and security

Data sheet | HP 820 0 zl Switch Ser ies

Features and benets

Software-dened networking

• OpenFlow

Supports OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 specications to enable SDN by allowing separation of the data (packet forwarding) and control (routing decision) paths

Unied Wired and Wireless

• NEW HTTP redirect function

Supports HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) bring your own device (BYOD) solution

Quality of service (QoS)

• Advanced classier-based QoS

Classies traic using multiple match criteria based on L2, L3, and L4 information; and applies QoS policies such as setting the priority level and rate limiting to selected traic on a per-port or per-VLAN basis

• L4 prioritization

Enables prioritization based on TCP/UDP port numbers

• Traic prioritization

Allows real-time traic classication into eight priority levels that are mapped to eight queues

• 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ic on each port

– Reduced bandwidth

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

• Class of service (CoS)

Sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on the IP address, IP type of service (ToS), L3 protocol, TCP/UDP port number, source port, and DiServ

AllianceOne integration

• HP AllianceONE Services zl Module

Allows applications to be embedded directly into the network—either distributed throughout the network at the network edge or centralized in the core or distribution layer (for more information about the AllianceONE solution, visit the HP website)

Data sheet | HP 820 0 zl Switch Ser ies

Management

• Remote intelligent mirroring

Mirrors selected ingress/egress traic based on an ACL, port, MAC address, or VLAN to a local or remote HP 8200 zl, 6600, 6200 yl, 5400 zl, or 3500 switch anywhere on the network

• Remote monitoring (RMON), Extended RMON (XRMON), and sFlow v5

Provide advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities for statistics, history, alarms, and events

• 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

• Unidirectional link detection (UDLD)

Monitors the cable between two switches and shuts down the ports on both ends if the cable is broken, turning the bidirectional link into a unidirectional one; this helps prevent network problems such as loops

• Command authorization

Leverages the RADIUS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network administrator’s login; an audit trail documents the activity

• Friendly port names

Allows assignment of descriptive names to ports

• 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

• HP unied core-to-edge features

Enables faster solution deployment with implementation of features that are common across the ProVision portfolio

• Comware CLI

– Comware-compatible CLI

Bridges the experience of HP Comware CLI users who use the ProVision software CLI

– Display and fundamental Comware CLI commands

Are embedded in the switch CLI as native commands; display output is formatted as on Comware-based switches and fundamental commands provide a Comware-familiar initial switch setup

– Conguration Comware CLI commands

Elicit CLI help to formulate the correct ProVision software CLI command

Data sheet | HP 820 0 zl Switch Ser ies

Connectivity

• High-density port connectivity

Provides up to 12 interface-module slots and up to 288 wire-speed 10/100/1000 PoE-enabled ports or 96 10GbE ports per system

• IEEE 802.3az energy-eicient Ethernet

Lowers power consumption in periods of low-link usage (supported on v2 zl 10/100/1000 and 10/100 modules)

• IEEE 802.3af PoE

Provides up to 15.4 W per port to IEEE 802.3af-compliant PoE-powered devices such as IP phones, wireless access points, and security cameras

• IEEE 802.3at PoE+

Provides up to 30 W per port to IEEE 802.3at-complaint PoE/PoE+-powered devices such as video IP phones, IEEE 802.11n wireless access points, and advanced pan/zoom/tilt security cameras

• Jumbo frames

Allow high-performance remote backup and disaster-recovery services on GbE and 10GbE ports

• HP unied core-to-edge hardware

Enables sparing simplicity with the interface and service modules, Gigabit optics/10 GbE transceivers, and power supplies common across the ProVision family

• Pre-standard PoE support

Detects and provides power to pre-standard PoE devices (refer to the list of supported devices in the product FAQs, which can be accessed at hp.com/networking)

• Auto-MDIX

Provides automatic adjustments for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports

• IPv6

– IPv6 host

Enables switches to be managed in an IPv6 network

– Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6)

Provides the transition mechanism from IPv4 to IPv6; and supports connectivity for both protocols

– MLD snooping

Forwards IPv6 multicast traic to the appropriate interface

– IPv6 ACL/QoS

Supports ACL and QoS for IPv6 network traic

– IPv6 routing

Supports static and open standard path rst (OSPF) v3 routing protocols

– 6-in-4 tunneling

Supports encapsulation of IPv6 traic in IPv4 packets

– Security

Provides RA guard, DHCPv6 protection, dynamic IPv6 lockdown

Data sheet | HP 820 0 zl Switch Ser ies

Performance

• High-speed, high-capacity architecture

Provides intra-module and inter-module switching with 739.2 million pps throughput on the purpose-built ProVision ASICs, using a 1.12 Tb/s crossbar switching fabric

• Selectable queue congurations

Enables increased performance by selecting the number of queues and associated memory buering that best meet the requirements of the network applications

• Scalable system design

Provides built-in performance capacity/headroom to support next-generation high-density/ high-speed connectivity with its eicient chassis architecture/backplane

Resiliency and high availability

• Virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP)

Allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments for IPv4 and IPv6 networks

• Nonstop switching

Improves network availability to better support critical applications, such as unied communication and mobility; interface and fabric modules continue switching traic during a failover from an active to a standby management module

• Nonstop routing

Enhances L3 high availability; OSPFv2/v3 and VRRP continue to operate and route network traic during a failover from an active to a standby management module

• Redundant management, fabric, and power

Provide enhanced system availability and continuity of operations

• Distributed trunking

Enables loop-free and redundant network topology without using STP; and allows a server or switch to connect to two switches using one logical trunk for redundancy and load sharing

• Multiple spanning tree protocol (STP) and IEEE 802.1s

Oers high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees; encompasses IEEE 802.1d STP and IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP

• IEEE 802.3ad link-aggregation-control protocol (LACP) and HP port trunking

Support up to 144 trunks, each with up to eight links (ports) per trunk

• Proven ProVision ASIC and system architecture

Reduces technology risk and provides reliable support and exibility—with the architecture leveraged from the successful HP 5400 zl, 3500, 6600, and 6200 yl Switch Series

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• HP zl family components

Employ proven intelligent edge switch interface modules, optics, and power supplies to reduce technology risk and enhance system reliability

• Hot-swappable modules

Enables the interface, management, and fabric modules as well as mini-GBIC optics and power supplies to be removed, swapped, or added to the system—without interrupting ongoing switch operations

• Redundant fan design and hot-swappable fan tray

Provide continuity of operation in case of a single fan failure

• Passive chassis backplane

Provides system reliability and reduces the impact of a component failure (no traicforwarding active components)

• SmartLink

Provides easy-to-congure link redundancy of active and standby links

L2 switching

• VLAN support and tagging

Supports the IEEE 802.1Q standard and 2,048 VLANs simultaneously

• IEEE 802.1v protocol VLANs

Isolate select non-IPv4 protocols automatically into their own VLANs

• GARP VLAN registration protocol

Allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs

• IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q

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

• MAC-based VLAN

Provides granular control and security; and uses the RADIUS to map a MAC address/user to specic VLANs (requires v2 modules)

• Rapid per-VLAN spanning tree (RPVST+)

Allows each VLAN to build a separate spanning tree to improve link bandwidth usage; is compatible with PVST+

• HP switch meshing

Enables dynamic load balancing across multiple active redundant links to increase the aggregate bandwidth availability; and allows concurrent L3 routing with v2 modules

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