Specifications

• VDX 6740
• Form Factor 1U
• Switching bandwidth (data rate, full duplex) 1.28 Tbps
• Switch performance 960 Mpps
• Port-to-port latency 850 ns
• Dimensions and weight Width: 43.99 cm (17.32 in.)
• Height: 4.32 cm (1.75 in.)
• Depth: 40.99 cm (16.14 in.)
• Weight: 8.66 kg (19.1 lb)
• 10 GbE SFP+ ports Up to 64
• 162/4/8/16 Gbps Fibre Channel Flex Ports Up to 32 (out of 64 10 GbE ports)Port types supported: E_Port (connecting to EX_Port only), F_Port, N_Port (Access Gateway mode)
• 1/10 GBASE-T 0
• 40 GbE QSFP+ (10 GbE breakout cable) 4
• 10 GbE Ports on Demand (PoD) 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64
• 10 GbE Capacity on Demand (CoD) N/A
• Power supplies Two hot-swappable, load-sharing
• Cooling fans N+1 redundant, integrated into power supplies
• Airflow Front to back Back to front
• Connector Options Out-of-band Ethernet management: RJ45 (fixed) Console management: RJ45 to RS-232 (fixed) Firmware and diagnostic: USB
• Maximum VLANs 4,096
• Maximum MAC addresses 160,000
• Maximum port profiles (AMPP) 1,024
• Maximum members in a standard LAG 64
• Maximum per-port priority pause level 8
• Maximum switches that a vLAG can span 8
• Maximum members in a vLAG 64
• Maximum jumbo frame size 9,216 bytes
• Queues per port 8
• DCB Priority Flow Control (PFC) classes 8
• Maximum ACLs 13,000
• Maximum ARP entries 32,000
• Maximum IPv4 unicast routes 12,000
• Maximum IPv6 unicast routes 3,000
• HA/ISSU ISSU fully supported
• Enclosure Front-to-rear, rear-to-front airflow; 1U, 19-inch EIA-compliant; power from non-port side
• Temperature Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) Non-operating and storage: -25°C to 70°C (-13°F to 158°F)
• Humidity Operating: 10% to 85% non-condensing Non-operating and storage: 10% to 90% non-condensing
• Altitude Operating: Up to 3,048 meters (10,000 feet) Non-operating and storage: Up to 12 kilometers (39,370 feet)
• Shock Operating: 20 G, 11 ms half-sine Non-operating and storage: Square wave, 44 G, 15 ms
• Vibration Operating: 0.5 G peak, 0.7 G ms random, 5 to 500 Hz Non-operating and storage: 2.0 g sine, 1.4 G rms random, 5 to 500 Hz
• Airflow VDX 6740T port-side-intake: Maximum: 49.3 CFM; Nominal: 26.3 CFMB VDX 6740T port-side-exhaust: Maximum: 51.9 CFM; Nominal: 27.3 CFM VDX 6740 port-side-intake and port-side-exhaust: Maximum: 25.7 CFM; Nominal: 11.5 CFM
• Heat dissipation 1,672.41 BTU/hr
• Power supplies Two internal, redundant, field-replaceable, load-sharing AC power supplies
• Power inlet C13
• Input voltage 85 to 264 VAC nominal
• Input line frequency 50 to 60 Hz
• Inrush current Limited to 30 A peak at 240 VAC during cold startup at 25°C ambient
• Maximum current 6 A max at 100 VAC/60 Hz
• Maximum power consumption VDX 6740: 110 W VDX 6740T: 460 W VDX 6740T-1G: 276 W (Base SKU)
• CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1-07 including A1 / UL 60950-1-07, Ed. 2 including A1 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition TFTP Protocol (revision 2)
• EN 60950-1 Second Edition +A1/A12 Internet Protocol (IP)
• IEC 60950-1 Second Edition +A1•GB 4943.1-2011 and GB9254-2008 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• CNS14336-1(99) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• FCC Class A ARP
• ICES-003 Class A Telnet Protocol Specification
• VCCI-Class A A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagram over Ethernet Networks
• CE FTP
• C-Tick Using ARP to Implement Transparent Subnet Gateways (Proxy ARP)
• BSMI IGMPv1
• GOST Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1 and v2
• KCC Class A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3
• CCC TACACS+
• ANSI C63.4 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• ICES-003 Class A Multicast Extensions to OSPF
• CISPR22 and JEIDA (Harmonics) OSPF Database Overflow
• EN55022 Class A and EN55024 Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
• CISPR22 BGP Communities Attribute
• AS/NZS CISPR22 HTTP Server
• CNS 13438(95) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• 51318.22-99 and 51318.24-99 OSPF with Digital Signatures (Password, MD-5)
• KN22 and KN24 IGMPv2
• GB17625.1-2003 Network Ingress Filtering
• RoHS-6 (with lead exemption) Directive 2002/95/EC OSPF v2
• VDX 6740 products conform to the following Ethernet standards: OSPF Opaque Link-State Advertisement (LSA) Option—Partial Support
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protection of BGP Sessions with the TCP MD5 Signature Option
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol BGP Route Flap Damping
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Internet Protocol, Version 6 (v6) Specification (on management interface)
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
• IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks (on management interface)
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Definition of the Differentiated Services Field in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
• IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port IPv6 Router Alert Option
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames) The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X sFlow
• The following draft versions of the Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standards are also supported on the VDX 6740: Capabilities Advertisement with BGPv4
• IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control An Architecture for Describing SNMP Frameworks
• IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection Message Processing and Dispatching for the SNMP
• IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE 802.1 Working Group) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Applications
• FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0) IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• The VDX 6740 products conform to the following Fibre Channel standards: Graceful OSPF Restart—IETF Tools
• FC-GS-5 ANSI INCITS 427:2007 (includes the following) –FC-GS-4 ANSI INCITS 387: 2004 VRRP
• FC-SP-2 INCITS 496-2012(AUTH-A, AUTH-B1 only) BGPv4
• FC-DA INCITS TR-36: 2004 (includes the following) –FC-FLA INCITS TR-20: 1998–FC-PLDA INCIT S TR-19: 1998 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• FC-MI-2 ANSI/INCITS TR-39-2005 IP Forwarding MIB
• FC-PI INCITS 352: 2002 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)
• FC-PI-2 INCITS 404: 2005 ICMPv6 (replaces 2463)
• FC-PI-4 INCITS 1647-D, revision 7.1 (under development) BGP Route Reflection
• FC-FS-2 ANSI/INCITS 424:2006 (includes the following) –FC-FS INCITS 373: 2003 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map
• FC-LS INCITS 433: 2007 Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
• MIB-FA INCITS TR-32: 2003 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 768 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 783 BGP Support for Four-Octet AS Number Space
• RFC 791 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
• RFC 792 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• RFC 793 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
• RFC 826 Generic Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• RFC 854 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
• RFC 894 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 959 BGP-EVPN—Network Virtualization Using VXLAN Data Plane
• RFC 1027
• RFC 1112 Use of BGP-MP Extensions for IPv6
• RFC 1157 OSPFv3 for IPv6
• RFC 1305
• RFC 1492 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
• RFC 1519
• RFC 1584 VRRP Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
• RFC 1765
• RFC 1812 Maximum switches in a fabric
• RFC 1997 Maximum ECMP paths in a fabric
• RFC 2068 Maximum LAGs in a fabric
• RFC 2131 Service Node Load Balancing BFD/ARP Optimizations
• RFC 2154 Conversational MAC Learning
• RFC 2236 Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) spanning
• RFC 2267 Layer 2 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• RFC 2328 Supports 2K ingress and egress ACLs
• RFC 2370 Edge Loop Detection (ELD)
• RFC 2375 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) RFC 826
• RFC 2385 Private VLANs
• RFC 2439 Maintenance Mode/Graceful Traffic Diversion
• RFC 2460 Distributed VXLAN Gateway
• RFC 2462 Diagnostic Ports
• RFC 2464 IP Maps Support
• RFC 2474 L2 Loop prevention in an overlay environment
• RFC 2571 High availability/In-Service Software Upgrade—hardware-enabled
• RFC 2711 IGMP snooping support for multicast flooding
• RFC 2865 IGMPv1/v2 Snooping
• RFC 3101 IGMPv1/v2 Snooping
• RFC 3137 IGMPv3
• RFC 3176 MAC Learning and Aging
• RFC 3392 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) IEEE 802.3ad/802.1AX
• RFC 3411 Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
• RFC 3412 VLAN Encapsulation 802.1Q
• RFC 3413 Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+/PVRST+)
• RFC 3587 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 802.1w
• RFC 3623 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s
• RFC 3768 STP PortFast, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter
• RFC 4271 STP Root Guard
• RFC 4291 Pause Frames 802.3x
• RFC 4292 Static MAC Configuration
• RFC 4293 Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
• RFC 4443 Uplink switch for VDX switches, VCS fabrics, and the VCS Virtual Fabric feature
• RFC 4456 Transparent LAN Services
• RFC 4510 L2 Traceroute for VXLAN
• RFC 4601 BUM Storm Control
• RFC 4724 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4+)
• RFC 4861 DHCP Helper
• RFC 4893 Layer 3 ACLs
• RFC 5082 Multicast: PIM-SM, IGMPv2
• RFC 5880 OSPF v2/v3
• RFC 5881 Static routes
• RFC 5882 IPv4/v6 ACL
• RFC 5883 IPv4/v6 ACL
• RFC 5942 Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
• RFC 7432 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• IPv6 Routing 32-Way ECMP
• RFC 2545 VRF Lite
• RFC 2740 VRF-aware OSPF, BGP, VRRP, static routes
• IPv6 Multicast VRRP v2 and v3
• RFC 2710 uRPF for IPv4 and IPv6
• VRRP/VRRPe IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
• RFC 5798 IPv6 ACL packet filtering
• BGP automatic neighbor discovery for IP fabric
• Software scalability BGP Additional-Path
• BGP-Allow AS
• BGP Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
• Layer 2 switching BGP graceful shutdown for maintenance mode
• BGP Peer Auto Shutdown
• Multicast Refactoring
• IPv6 routing
• OSPF Type-3 LSA Filter
• Wire-speed routing for IPv4 and IPv6 using any routing protocol
• BGP-EVPN Control Plane Signaling RFC 7432
• BGP-EVPN VXLAN Standard-based Overlay
• Multi-VRF
• IP Unnumbered Interface
• Intersubnet Routing (Symmetric and Asymmetric)
• IP over Port Channel
• VRRP-E
• Fabric Virtual Gateway
• Static Anycast Gateway
• ARP Suppression
• OpenFlow 1.3
• REST API with YANG data model
• Puppet
• Python
• PyNOS libraries
• VMware vRealize plugins
• DHCP automatic fabric provisioning
• Netconf API
• TRILL FGL-based VCS Virtual Fabric feature
• Virtual fabric extension
• VM-Aware Network Automation
• BFD for virtual fabric extension
• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
• Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) 802.1Qbb
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) 802.1Qaz
• Manual configuration of lossless queues for protocols other than FCoE and iSCSI
• Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX)
• DCBX Application Type-Length-Value (TLV) for FCoE and iSCSI
• Layer 3 switching Multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); requires VCS Fabric technology
• FC-BB5 compliant Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF)
• Native FCoE forwarding
• FCoE to Fibre Channel Bridging
• FCoE on VDX 8770
• FCoE on QSFP+ port
• Multi-hop Access Gateway Support
• End-to-end FCoE (initiator to target)
• FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) v1 support for FCoE device login and initialization
• Name Server-based zoning
• Supports connectivity to FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) device
• FCoE traffic over standard LAG
• Interface Binding
• Dual Personality Ports
• Logical SANs
• ISSU L2 and L3
• BFD
• OSPF3-NSR
• BGP4-GR
• Management Module Failover
• ACL-based QoS
• Eight priority levels for QoS
• Class of Service (CoS) IEEE 802.1p
• DSCP Trust
• DSCP to Traffic Class Mutation
• DSCP to CoS Mutation
• DSCP to DSCP Mutation
• Random Early Discard
• Per-port QoS configuration
• ACL-based Rate Limit
• Dual-rate, three-color token bucket
• ACL-based remarking of CoS/DSCP/Precedence
• ACL-based sFlow
• Scheduling: Strict Priority (SP), Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (DWRR), Hybrid Scheduling (Hybrid)
• Queue-based Shaping
• Flow-based QoS
• Logical chassis management
• Automation and programmability IPv4/IPv6 management
• Industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Netconf API
• REST API with YANG data model
• VDX Plugin for OpenStack
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IEEE 802.1AB
• MIB II RFC 1213 MIB
• Switch Beaconing
• Mulititenancy and virtualization Management VRF
• Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
• Telnet
• SNMP v1, v2C, v3
• sFlow RFC 3176
• DCB
• Out-of-band management
• Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
• RMON-1, RMON-2
• NTP
• Fibre Channel/FCoE Management Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Range CLI support
• UDLD
• OpenStack Neutron ML2 plugin
• Python
• Puppet
• Distributed Configuration Management
• Maps switch health monitoring
• Port-based Network Access Control 802.1X
• RADIUS (AAA)
• TACACS+
• Secure Shell (SSHv2)
• BPDU Drop X X
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• High availability Secure Copy Protocol
• Port Security
• VDX 6740, 24P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 24P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 48P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• Quality of Service (QoS) VDX 6740, 48P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 64P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 64P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 64P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, FCoE, VCS fabric, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740, 64P SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, FCoE, VCS fabric, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 24P 10GBASE-T ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 24P 10GBASE-T ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T and 4 SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T and 4 SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T and 4 SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, FCoE, VCS fabric, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T, 48P 10GBASE-T and 4 SFP+ ports only—no optics, AC, FCoE, VCS fabric, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T-1G, 48P 1000BASE-T and 2 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, upgradable to 10GBASE-T via license only—no optics, AC, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6740T-1G, 48P 1000BASE-T and 2 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, upgradable to 10GBASE-T via license only—no optics, AC, port-side exhaust airflow
• 8-port PoD license for VDX 6740 and 6740T
• Management and monitoring 2-port 40 GbE PoD license for VDX 6740 and 6740T
• 16-port 1 GbE to 10 GbE Capacity on Demand (CoD) upgrade license for VDX 6740T-1G
• Software, FCoE license for VDX 6740 and 6740T
• Software, VCS license for VDX 6740 and 6740T
• Software, VCS and FCoE license for VDX 6740 and 6740T
• FRU 250 W AC power supply/fan, non-port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740
• FRU 250 W AC power supply/fan, port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740
• FRU 500 W AC power supply/fan, non-port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740T, 6740T-1G
• FRU 500 W AC power supply/fan, port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740T, 6740T-1G
• AN-FAC fan, non-port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740T, 6740T-1G
• AC fan, port-side exhaust airflow, VDX 6740T, 6740T-1G
• FRU, VDX 6740 fixed rack-mount kit for 4-post racks
• FRU, VDX 6740 mid-mount kit for 2-post racks
• Flush-mount kit for 2-post racks for VDX 6740
• FRU, universal 2-post mid-mount kit/flush-mount kit, VDX 6740T/6740T-1G
• FRU, universal rack-mount kit, 4-post, 24- to 32-inch depth rack, VDX 6740T/6740T-1G
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