• Cut-through with ultra-low-latency and wire speed
Product overview
The HPE FlexFabric 5930 Switch Series provides a high performance and ultra-low-latency 40GbE top-of-rack (ToR) data center
switch. The switch series is part of the Hewlett Packard
FlexNetwork architecture.
The
access layer of large enterprise data
centers, or at the core layer of medium
With the increase pace of deploying virtualized applications, adopt
server traffic,
many data centers now require spine and ToR switch innovations
optimized to meet the increasing
traffic, the capability to handle virtual environments, and ultra-low-latency.
Features and benefits
Quality of Service (QoS)
Powerful QoS features
• VXLAN VTEP OVSDB support for virtualized environments
• High-density 40GbE spine/ToR connectivity
• IPv6 support with full L2 and L3 features
• Convergence-ready with DCB, FCoE, and TRILL
Enterprise FlexFabric data center solution, which is a cornerstone of the
FlexFabric 5930 Switch Series is ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server
-sized enterprises.
ing software-defined networking, and the server-to-
that will meet their requirements. The HPE FlexFabric 5930 is
requirements for higher-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage
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Flexible queue scheduling
Data center optimized
(IRF) technology simplifies the architecture of server access networks; up to nine HP 5930
monitoring, and restart; the OS also allows individual software modules to be upgraded for higher availability and supports
to 8 paths. Support for Shortest Path Bridging (IEEE 802.1aq) with ECMP up to 8 paths. Edge Virtual Bridging with Virtual
performance remote backup
Manageability
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– Packet filtering and remarking:
• Flexible high port density
the HPE FlexFabric 5930 Switch Series enables scaling of the server edge with 40GbE spine and ToR deployments to
new heights with a high-density 32-port fixed port switch in a 1RU design.
•High-performance switching
cut-through and nonblocking architecture delivers low latency for very demanding enterprise applications; the switch
delivers high-performance switching capacity and wire-speed packet forwarding
• Higher scalability
HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric
switches can be combined to deliver unmatched scalability of virtualized access layer switches and flatter two-tier
networks using IRF, which reduces cost and complexity
• Advanced modular operating system
Comware v7 software's modular design and multiple processes bring native high stability, independent process
including Strict Priority (SP), WRR, WDRR, WFQ, SP+WRR, SP+WDRR, SP+WFQ, Configurable Buffer, Time range,
Queue Shaping, CAR with 8kbps granularity.
packet filtering at L2 (Layer 2) through L4 (Layer 4); flow classification based on source MAC address,
destination MAC address, source IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, destination IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, port, protocol, and
VLAN.
enhanced serviceability functions like hitless software upgrades with single-chassis ISSU
• TRILL, SPB and EVB/VEPA
TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) is supported including support of TRILL with IRF, TRILL ECMP up
Ethernet Port Aggregator (EVB/VEPA) provides connectivity into the virtual environment for a data center-ready
environment
• Reversible airflow
enhanced for data center hot-cold aisle deployment with reversible airflow—for either front-to-back or back-to-front
airflow
•Redundant fans and power supplies
Internal redundant and hot-pluggable power supplies and dual fan trays enhance reliability and availability
• Lower OPEX and greener data center
provide reversible airflow and advanced chassis power management
• Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols
provides support for IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC), Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX), IEEE 802.1Qaz
Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for converged FCoE, iSCSI and RoCE
environments.
•FCoE support
provides support T11 standards-compliant FC-BB-5 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), including FCoE Initialization
Protocol (FIP), FCP, Fiber Channel enhanced port types VE, TE and VF, NPV, NPIV, Fabric Name Server, RSCN, Login
Services, and name-server zoning, Per-VSAN Fabric Services, FSPF, Standard Zoning and Fiber Channel Ping.
• Jumbo frames
with frame sizes of up to 10,000 bytes on Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit ports, allows highand disaster-recovery services to be enabled
• VXLAN Support
VXLAN Layer 2 Gateway support for up to 4k tunnels
• Dynamic VXLAN configuration
OVSDB support for dynamic VXLAN configuration
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• Full-featured console
Res
based networks
provides complete control of the switch with a familiar CLI
• Troubleshooting
– Ingress and egress port monitoring
enable network problem solving
• Multiple configuration files
• sFlow (RFC 3176)
• SNMP v1, v2c and v3
• Out-of-band interface
• Remote configuration and management
• ISSU and hot patching
• Autoconfiguration
• NTP, SNTP
– Traceroute and ping
enable testing of network connectivity
allow multiple configuration files to be stored to a flash image
provides wire-speed traffic accounting and monitoring
facilitate centralized discovery, monitoring, and secure management of networking devices
isolates management traffic from user data plane traffic for complete isolation and total reachability, no matter what
happens in the data plane
delivered through a secure command-line interface (CLI) over Telnet and SSH; Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
provides multiple levels of access; Configuration Rollback and multiple configurations on the flash provide ease of
operation; remote visibility is provided with sFlow and SNMP v1/v2/v3, and is fully supported in HPE Intelligent
Management Center (IMC)
provides hitless software upgrades with single-unit In Services Software Upgrade (ISSU) and hitless patching of the
modular operating system
provides automatic configuration via DHCP autoconfiguration
synchronize timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; Support for Network Time Protocol (NTP), Secure
Network Time Protocol (SNTP) IEEE 1588v2 (2008)
enables an HPE FlexFabric to deliver resilient, scalable, and secured data center networks for physical and virtualized
environments; groups up to nine HPE 5930 switches in an IRF configuration, allowing them to be configured and
managed as a single switch with a single IP address; simplifies ToR deployment and management, reducing data center
deployment and operating expenses
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Convergence Spanning Tree Protocol
increases network uptime through faster recovery from failed links
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
provides high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments
• Hitless patch upgrades
allows patches and new service features to be installed without restarting the equipment, increasing network uptime and
facilitating maintenance
Detection (BFD)
enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and
IRF
• Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)
monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional traffic is detected, preventing loops in STP-
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• Graceful restart
Layer 2 switching
Aggregation of up to 128 groups of 32 ports; support for LACP, LACP Local Forwarding First,
Policy; IPv6 IGMP Snooping provides Layer 2 optimization of
Layer 3 ser
determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; supports static ARPs; gratuitous ARP allows detection
Layer 3 routing
MD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
allows routers to indicate to others their capability to maintain a routing table during a temporary shutdown and
significantly reduces convergence times upon recovery; supports OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS
•MAC-based VLAN
provides granular control and security; uses RADIUS to map a MAC address/user to specific VLANs
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
supports static, dynamic, and reverse ARP and ARP proxy
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
provides intelligent congestion management via PAUSE frames
• Ethernet Link Aggregation
provides IEEE 802.3ad Link
and LACP Short-time provides a fast, resilient environment that is ideal for the data center
provides support for 4,096 VLANs based on port, MAC address, IPv4 subnet, protocol, and guest VLAN; supports VLAN
mapping
• IGMP support
provides support for IGMP Snooping, Fast-Leave, and Groupmulticast traffic
•DHCP support at Layer 2
provides full DHCP Snooping support for DHCP Snooping Option 82, DHCP Relay Option 82, DHCP Snooping Trust, and
DHCP Snooping Item Backup
vices
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) support
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and VRRP Extended
• Policy-based routing
• Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)
• Layer 3 IPv4 routing
• Open shortest path first (OSPF)
of duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows normal ARP operation between subnets or when subnets are separated by a
Layer 2 network
simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation
across subnets
provides support for Connectivity Fault Management (IEEE 802.1AG) and Ethernet in the First Mile (IEEE 802.3AH);
provides additional monitoring that can be used for fast fault detection and recovery
allow quick failover of router ports
makes routing decisions based on policies set by the network administrator
enables multiple equal-cost links in a routing environment to increase link redundancy and scale bandwidth
provides routing of IPv4 at media speed; supports static routes, RIP and RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS
delivers faster convergence; uses this link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which supports ECMP, NSSA, and
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•Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
IS routing and extended
Additional information
Management
enables traffic on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring
delivers an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) utilizing path vectors; uses TCP for enhanced
reliability for the route discovery process; reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates;
supports extensive policies for increased flexibility; scales to very large networks
•Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)
uses a path vector Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which is defined by the ISO organization for ISby IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/IP and the OSI reference model (Integrated IS-IS)
• Static IPv6 routing
provides simple manually configured IPv6 routing
• Dual IP stack
maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease the transition from an IPv4-only network to an IPv6-only network
design
• Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng)
extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing
• OSPFv3
provides OSPF support for IPv6
• BGP+
extends BGP-4 to support Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), including support for IPv6 addressing
•IS-IS for IPv6
extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing
•IPv6 tunneling
allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet into a standard IPv4 packet;
supports manually configured, 6to4, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunnels; is an
important element for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6
• Policy routing
allows custom filters for increased performance and security; supports ACLs, IP prefix, AS paths, community lists, and
aggregate policies
• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and
IRF
• Multicast Routing PIM Dense and Sparse modes
provides robust support of multicast protocols
• Layer 3 IPv6 routing
provides routing of IPv6 at media speed; supports static routing, RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP4+ for IPv6, and IS-ISv6
• Green IT and power
improves energy efficiency through the use of the latest advances in silicon development; shuts off unused ports and
utilizes variable-speed fans, reducing energy costs
• USB support
– File copy
• Multiple configuration files
stores easily to the flash image
•SNMPv1, v2c, and v3
facilitate centralized discovery, monitoring, and secure management of networking devices
• Out-of-band interface
isolates management traffic from user data plane traffic for complete isolation and total reachability, no matter what
happens in the data plane
• Port mirroring
allows users to copy switch files to and from a USB flash drive
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• Remote configuration and management
based wirespeed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; this
provides local and remote logging of events via SNMP (v2c and v3) and syslog; provides log throttling and log filtering to
restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide
Security
provide IP Layer 3 filtering based on source/destination IP address/subnet and source/destination TCP/UDP port number
Convergence
is available through a command-line interface (CLI)
• 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
• sFlow (RFC 3176)
provides scalable ASICallows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics and information for capacity planning and
real-time network monitoring purposes
• Command authorization
leverages RADIUS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network administrator's login; an audit trail
documents activity
•Dual flash images
provides independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
•Command-line interface (CLI)
provides a secure, easy-to-use CLI for configuring the module via SSH or a switch console; provides direct real-time
session visibility
• Logging
reduce the number of log events generated
• Management interface control
provides management access through a modem port and terminal interface, as well as in-band and out-of-band Ethernet
ports; provides access through terminal interface, Telnet, or secure shell (SSH)
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure
reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
• Management security
Telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
• 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 order of severity; outputs the network information to multiple channels
based on user-defined rules
• Network management
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) centrally configures, updates, monitors, and troubleshoots
• Remote intelligent mirroring
mirrors ingress/egress ACL-selected traffic from a switch port or VLAN to a local or remote switch port anywhere on the
network
• Access control lists (ACLs)
• RADIUS/TACACS+
eases switch management security administration by using a password authentication server
• Secure shell
encrypts all transmitted data for secure remote CLI access over IP networks
• IEEE 802.1X and RADIUS network logins
controls port-based access for authentication and accountability
• Port security
allows access only to specified MAC addresses, which can be learned or specified by the administrator
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