HPE JQ076A Getting Started Guide
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HPE FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series
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HPE FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series
HPE FlexFabric 5945 48SFP28 8QSFP28 Switch (JQ074A)
HPE FlexFabric 5945 4-slot Switch (JQ076A)
Models
HPE FlexFabric 5945 48SFP28 8QSFP28 Switch
JQ074A
HPE FlexFabric 5945 4-slot Switch
JQ076A
Key features
• Cut-through with ultra low latency and wirespeed
• IPv6 support with full L2 and L3 features
• VXLAN, VTEP, and OVSDB support for virtualized environments
• High-density 100GbE/40GbE/25GbE/10GbE spine/top-of-rack (ToR) connectivity
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• HPE FlexFabric Network Analytics solution support for real-time microburst detection
Product overview
HPE FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series is a family of high-density, ultra-low-latency, and ToR switches that is part of HPE FlexFabric
solution (from the HPE Cloud
Ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers, the HPE FlexFabric
Switch Series is also powerful enough for deployment at the core layer of medium
With the increase in virtualized applications and server
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FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series..
Features and benefits
Quality of Service (QoS)
including source MAC, destination MAC, source IP (IPv4/IPv6), destination IP (IPv4/IPv6), port number, protocol
Data c
5945 switches can be combined to deliver unmatched scalability of virtualized access layer switches and flatter
monitoring, and restart; the OS also allows individual software modules to be upgraded for higher availability and supports
Provides support for IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC), Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX), IEEE 802.1Qaz
-performance server connectivity and the capabilities to handle virtual environments. This is available in the low-latency HPE
• Powerful QoS features
− Flexible queue scheduling: Including Strict Priority (SP), WRR, WFQ, SP+WRR, SP+WDRR, SP+WFQ,
− Packet filtering and remarking: Packet filtering based on packet header fields from Layer 2 through Layer 4,
-First Reference Architecture).
5945
-sized enterprises.
-to-server traffic, customers require spine and ToR switches that can meet
quirements. With the HPE FlexFabric 5945, data centers can now support up to 100 Gb per ports, allowing
configurable buffer, time range, queue shaping, and CAR with 8 kbps granularity.
type, and VLAN.
enter optimized
• Flexible high port density
HPE FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series enables scaling of the server edge, with 100GbE, 40GbE. 25GbE, and 10GbE spine
and leaf deployment. The HPE FlexFabric 5945 Switch Series solution includes a 48-port of 25 Gb with 8-port of 100G
and a 2RU 4-slot modular form factor
• High-performance switching
Cut-through and nonblocking architecture delivers low latency (~ 1 microsecond for 100GbE) for very demanding
enterprise applications; the switch delivers high-performance switching capacity and wirespeed packet forwarding
• Higher scalability
HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) technology simplifies the architecture of server access networks; up to 10 HPE
FlexFabric
2-tier networks using HPE 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
enhanced serviceability functions such as hitless software upgrades with HPE IRF based in-service software upgrade
(ISSU)
• 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
Provides reversible airflow and advanced chassis power management
• Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols
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Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for converged FCoE, iSCSI, and RoCE
Manageability
configuration rollback and multiple configurations on the flash provide ease of operation; remote visibility is provided with
Resiliency and high availability
reducing data center deployment and operating expenses
• Jumbo frames
• VXLAN hardware support
• Dynamic VXLAN configuration
• The HPE FlexFabric Network Analytics solution with real-time telemetry analysis provides insight into data center
• Full-featured console
• Troubleshooting
• Multiple configuration files
• sFlow® (RFC 3176)
• SNMP v1, v2c, and v3
• Out-of-band interface
• Remote configuration and management
• ISSU and hot patching
• PTP and NTP support
• NTP, SNTP
environments
With frame sizes of up to 9416 bytes on 100GbE ports, high-performance remote backup and disaster recovery services
are enabled
VXLAN L2/L3 gateway support for up to 4K tunnels
OVSDB support for dynamic VXLAN configuration
network operation
− Tracks all the accounting associated with the admission and allocation process of all the buffers and queues
across the ingress and egress ports
− Microburst congestion detection
− Rich congestion analytics
− Buffer congestion state and statistics
− For more information, see the HPE FlexFabric Network Analytics data sheet and HPE FlexFabric Network
Analytics technical white paper.
Provides complete control of the switch with a familiar CLI
− Ingress and egress port monitoring: enable network problem solving
− Traceroute and ping: enable testing of network connectivity
allow multiple configuration files to be stored to a flash image
Provides wirespeed traffic accounting and monitoring
Facilitates 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 CLI over Telnet and SSH; role-based access control (RBAC) provides multiple levels of access;
sFlow and SNMP v1/v2/v3, and is fully supported in
Provides hitless software upgrades with IRF-based ISSU and hitless patching of the modular operating system
Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; support for Network Time Protocol (NTP)
synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; support for network time protocol (NTP), secure
network time protocol (SNTP)
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
• IRF technology
Enables an HPE FlexFabric switch to deliver resilient, scalable, and secured data center networks for physical and
virtualized environments; groups up to 10 HPE FlexFabric 5945 switches in an HPE IRF configuration, allowing them to
be configured and managed as a single switch with a single IP address; simplifies ToR deployment and management,
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• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Convergence Spanning Tree Protocol
Allows patches and new service features to be installed without restarting the equipment, increasing network uptime, and
Layer 2 switching
Provides IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation of up to 256 groups of 32 ports; support for LACP, LACP Local Forwarding First,
Layer 3 services
Layer 3 routing
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 back each other up dynamically to create highly available routed environments
• Hitless patch upgrades
facilitating maintenance
• Fast protocol convergence with standard-based failure detection-Bidirectional Forwarding 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 STPbased networks
• Graceful restart
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
• 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
and LACP Short-time provide a fast, resilient environment that is ideal for the data center
• Spanning Tree Protocol
Supports STP (IEEE 802.1D), Rapid STP (RSTP, IEEE 802.1w), and Multiple STP (MSTP, IEEE 802.1s)
• VLAN support
Provides support for 4096 VLANs based on port
• IGMP support
Provides support for IGMP Snooping, fast-leave, and group policy; IPv6 IGMP Snooping provides L2 optimization of
multicast traffic
• DHCP support at L2
Provides full DHCP Snooping support for DHCP Snooping Option 82, DHCP Relay Option 82, DHCP Snooping Trust, and
DHCP Snooping Item Backup
• Address Resolution Protocol
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 L2 network
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation
across subnets
• Operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) support
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
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• EVPN and EVPN-DCI
state routing interior gateway protocol (IGP), which supports ECMP, NSSA, and
Additional information
Can act as a VTEP, EVPN Gateway, or Border Gateway enabling virtual multipoint bridged connectivity between different
Layer 2 domains over an IP network
• VRRP and VRRP Extended
Allows quick failover of router ports
• Policy-based routing
Makes routing decisions based on policies set by the network administrator
• Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)
Enables multiple equal-cost links in a routing environment to increase link redundancy and scale bandwidth
• L3 IPv4 routing
Provides routing of IPv4 at media speed; supports static routes, RIP and RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS
• Open shortest path first
Delivers faster convergence; uses this linkMD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
• Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Delivers an implementation of the BGP utilizing path vectors; uses TCP for enhanced reliability for the route discovery
process; reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates; supports extensive
• Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)
Uses a path vector IGP, which is defined by the ISO organization for IS-IS routing and extended by 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, 6 to 4, 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
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Management
ovides log throttling and log filtering to
ds; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide
Security
Provides IP L3 filtering based on source/destination IP, address/subnet, and source/destination TCP/UDP port number
• USB support
• Multiple configuration files
• SNMPv1, v2c, and v3
• Out-of-band interface
• Port mirroring
• Remote configuration and management
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• sFlow (RFC 3176)
• Command authorization
• Dual flash images
• Command-line interface
• Logging
• Management interface control
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure
• Management security
• Information center
• Network management
• Remote intelligent mirroring
− File copy: allows users to copy switch files to and from a USB flash drive
Stores easily to the flash image
Facilitates 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
Enables traffic on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring
Is available through a CLI
Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network, facilitating easy mapping by
network management applications
Provides scalable ASIC-based wirespeed 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
Leverages RADIUS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network administrator’s login; an audit trail
documents activity
Provides independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
Provides a secure, easy-to-use CLI for configuring the module via SSH or a switch console; provides direct real-time
session visibility
Provides local and remote logging of events via SNMP (v2c and v3) and syslog; pr
reduce the number of log events generated
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 SSH
Reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
Restricts access to critical configuration comman
Telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
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
HPE IMC centrally configures, updates, monitors, and troubleshoots
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
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• RADIUS/TACACS+
Convergence
Warranty and support
; for details on the software releases
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
• LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Discovery)
Defines a standard extension of LLDP that stores values for parameters such as QoS and VLAN to configure network
devices such as IP phones automatically
• 1-year warranty
See http://www.hpe.com/networking/warrantysummary
product purchase.
• Software releases
to find software for your product, refer to http://www.hpe.com/networking/support
available with your product purchase, refer to http://www.hpe.com/networking/warrantysummary
for warranty and support information included with your
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Build To Order
Shippable solution.
Standard Switch Enclosures
HPE FlexFabric 5945 48SFP28 8QSFP28 Switch
JQ074A
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• 1U - Height
See Configuration
HPE FlexFabric 5945 4-slot Switch
JQ076A
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See Configuration
Configuration Rules
Note 1
The following SFP/SFP+ Transceivers install into this Switch's Management Port:
HPE X115 100M SFP LC FX Transceiver
JD102B
HPE X110 100M SFP LC LX Transceiver
JD120B
HPE X110 100M SFP LC LH40 Transceiver
JD090A
HPE X120 1G SFP RJ45 T Transceiver
JD089B
Note 2
The following SFP Transceivers install into this switch:
HPE X120 1G SFP LC SX Transceiver
JD118B
HPE X120 1G SFP LC LX Transceiver
JD119B
HPE X125 1G SFP LC LH40 1310nm Transceiver
JD061A
HPE X120 1G SFP LC LH40 1550nm Transceiver
JD062A
HPE X125 1G SFP LC LH70 Transceiver
JD063B
Note 3
The following SFP+ Transceivers install into this Switch:
HPE X130 10G SFP+ LC SR Transceiver
JD092B
HPE X130 10G SFP+ LC LR Transceiver
JD094B
HPE X2A0 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 7m Active Optical Cable
JL290A
HPE X2A0 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 10m Active Optical Cable
JL291A
HPE X2A0 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 20m Active Optical Cable
JL292A
HPE FlexNetwork X240 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 0.65m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JD095C
HPE FlexNetwork X240 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 1.2m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JD096C
HPE FlexNetwork X240 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 3m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JD097C
HPE FlexNetwork X240 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 5m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JG081C
Note 4
The following SFP28 Transceivers install into this Switch:
HPE X190 25G SFP28 LC SR 100m MM Transceiver
JL293A
HPE X240 25G SFP28 to SFP28 1m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JL294A
HPE X240 25G SFP28 to SFP28 3m Direct Attach Copper Cable
JL295A
: BTO is a standalone unit with no integration. BTO products ship standalone are not part of a CTO or Rack-
48 SFP/SFP+/SFP28 ports (min=0 \ max=48)
• 8 QSFP+/QSFP28 ports (min=0 \ max=8)
• 1 SFP Management Port (min=0 \ max=1)
• 2 Power Supply Slots (Min 1 required)
• 5 Fan Tray Slots (Min 5 required)
4 port expansion module slots
• 1 SFP Management Port (min=0 \ max=1)
• 4 Power Supply Slots (Min 2 required)
• 2 Fan Tray Slots (Min 2 required)
2U - Height
NOTE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
NOTE: 1
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