Huawei CE6810-48S4Q-EI, CE6810-48S4Q-LI, CE6810-32T16S4Q-LI, CE6810-48S-LI, CE6810-24S2Q-LI Service Manual

CloudEngine 6810 Series

Data Center Switches

CloudEngine 6810 Series Data Center Switches

Product Overview

Huawei CloudEngine 6810 (CE6810 for short) series switches are next-generation 10G Ethernet switches designed for data centers and high-end campus networks, providing high-performance, high-density 10GE ports, and low latency. The CE6810 series uses an advanced hardware architecture with 40GE uplink ports and the industry's highest density of 10GE access ports.

Using the Huawei VRP8 software platform, CE6810 switches provide extensive data center service features and high stacking capability. In addition, the airflow direction (front-to-back or back-to-front) can be changed. CE6810 switches can work with CE12800 switches to build an elastic, virtualized, high-quality fabric that meets the requirements of cloud-computing data centers.

The CE6810 switches provide high-density 10GE access to help enterprises and carriers build a scalable data center network platform in the cloud computing era. They can also be used as aggregation or core switches for enterprise campus networks.

Product Appearance

The CE6810 series comes in five models.

CE6810-48S4Q-EI

48*10GE SFP+ ports, 4*40GE QSFP+ ports

CE6810-48S4Q-LI

48*10GE SFP+ ports, 4*40GE QSFP+ ports

CE6810-32T16S4Q-LI

32*10GE Base-T ports, 16*10GE SFP+ ports, 4*40GE QSFP+ ports

CE6810-48S-LI

48*10GE SFP+ ports

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CE6810-24S2Q-LI

24*10GE SFP+ ports, 2*40GE QSFP+ ports

Product Characteristics

High-Density 10GE Access

•The CE6810 is the industry's highest-performing 1 U ToR switch. It provides forwarding performance of 960 Mpps and supports L2/L3 line-rate forwarding.

•The CE6810 provides 64*10GE ports, allowing for high-density 10G server access.

•The CE6810 has four 40GE QSFP+ ports, each of which can be used as four 10GE SFP+ ports to provide flexibility in network deployment. Using the 40GE uplink ports, the CE6810 switches can connect to

CE12800 switches to build a non-blocking network platform.

Highly Reliable, High-Performance Stacking

•The industry's first 16-member stack system

»» A stack system of 16 member switches has up to 768*10GE access ports that provide high-density server access in a data center.

»» Multiple stacked switches are virtualized into one logical device, making it possible to build a scalable, easy-to-manage data center network platform.

»» A stack system separates the control plane from the data plane. This eliminates the risk of singlepoint failures and greatly improves system reliability.

•Long-distance, highly reliable stacking

»» The CE6810 can use service ports as stack ports. A stack system can be established with switches in the same rack or different racks, and even over long distances.

»» Service and stack bandwidths can be allocated based on the network's scale so that network resources can be used more efficiently.

Vertical Virtualization Simplifies Management

•The CE6810 supports Super Virtual Fabric (SVF), which can virtualize multiple physical switches of the same or different types into one logical switch to simplify network management and improve reliability.

•SVF enables different types of switches to set up a vertical virtual system. In an SVF system, CE6810 switches can act as leaf nodes and connect to spine switch CE6850 as its remote line cards. This facilitates cabling and equipment management in equipment rooms.

•Huawei's SVF is the first in the industry to implement local forwarding on leaf switches. When horizontal traffic dominates in a data center, SVF improves the forwarding efficiency and reduces network delay.

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Large-Scale Routing Bridge, On-Demand Scaling

•The CE6810 supports the IETF Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) protocol and can connect to 10G and 1G servers simultaneously. CE6810 switches can establish a large Layer 2 TRILL network with more than 500 nodes, enabling flexible service deployments and large-scale Virtual Machine (VM) migrations.

•The TRILL protocol uses a routing mechanism similar to IS-IS and sets a limited Time-to-Live (TTL) value in packets to prevent Layer 2 loops. This significantly improves network stability and speeds up network convergence.

•On a TRILL network, all data flows are forwarded quickly using Shortest Path First (SPF) and Equal-cost

Multi-path (ECMP) routing. SPF and ECMP avoid the suboptimal path selection problem in STP and increase link bandwidth efficiency to 100 percent.

•The CE6810 supports TRILL-based Layer 2 equal-cost paths, greatly improving links' load balancing capabilities. The network has a fat-tree architecture that enhances expansion.

Converged Enhanced Ethernet, Allowing for Data, Storage, and Computing Services on One Network

•The CE6810 series switches support Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which permits storage, data, and computing services to be transmitted on one network, reducing the costs of network construction and maintenance.

•The CE6810 series switches support centralized FCoE gateway deployment, which makes network O&M simpler.

•The CE6810 series switches support multiple data center features: Priority-based Flow Control (PFC), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) and Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX). These features ensure low latency and zero packet loss for FC storage and high-speed computing services.

Fast VM Migration, Policy Mobility

•The CE6810 works with Huawei's Agile Controller to permit network policies to be dynamically deployed on the CE6800. Agile Controller also supports online VM migration.

•Agile Controller delivers network policies through high-speed RADIUS interfaces. Its online VM migration is 10 to 20 times the rate of other industry platforms, enabling large-scale VM migrations.

•Agile Controller is based on open APIs and is compatible with all major virtualization platforms including VMware.

Programmable Network Device, Flexible Customization

•The CE6810 uses the Open Programmability System (OPS) embedded in the VRP8 software platform to provide programmability at the control plane.

•The OPS provides open APIs. APIs can be integrated with mainstream cloud platforms (including commercial and open cloud platforms) and third-party controllers. The OPS enables services to be flexibly customized and provides automatic management.

•Users or third-party developers can use open APIs to develop and deploy specialized network management policies to implement extension of fast service functions, automatic deployment, and

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