Specifications

• VDX 6940- 36Q
• Form Factor 1U
• Switching bandwidth (data rate, full duplex) 2.88 Tbps
• Switch performance 2.16 Bpps
• Port-to-port latency 800 ns
• Dimensions and weight Width: 44 cm (17.32 in.)
• Height: 4.4 cm (1.73 in.)
• Depth: 43.8 cm (17.22 in.)
• Weight: 8.9 kg (19.6 lb) without media; 10.1 kg (22.3 lb) with media
• 10 GbE SFP+ ports 144 10 GbE ports using breakout cables
• 1 GbE SFP 0
• 1/10 GBASE-T 0
• 40 GbE QSFP+ 36
• 100 GbE QSFP28 0
• 40 GbE Ports on Demand (PoD) 24, 36
• 10 GbE Ports on Demand (PoD) N/A
• Power Supplies Two internal, redundant, field-replaceable, load-sharing AC/DC power supplies
• Cooling fans 5 field-replaceable fans (FRUs); each fan FRU has 2 fans
• Airflow Rear-to-front or front-to-rear airflow
• 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 112,000 (L2 MACs); fabric-wide 256,000 (CML)
• Maximum port profiles (AMPP) 512
• Maximum members in a standard LAG 16
• 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 10,000
• Maximum ARP entries 84,000
• 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 (6940-36Q) and 2U (6940-144S), 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: 5% to 93% at 50°C (122°F ) Non-operating and storage: 10% to 95% at 60°C (140°F)
• Altitude Operating: 0 -3,000 meters (9,842 feet) Non-operating and storage: 0 to 12,000 m (39,370 ft.)
• Shock Operating: 15 G, 11 ms, half-sine wave Non-operating and storage: 33 G, 11 ms, half-sine wave, 5/ea axis, and 33 G 6 ms, trapezoidal, 1/ea axis
• Vibration Operating: 1 G sine, 0.5 gms random, 5 to 500 Hz Non-operating and storage: 2.4 G sine, 1.1 gms random, 5 to 500 Hz
• Airflow Maximum: 159 CMH (94 CFM)Minimum: 65 CMH (38 CFM)
• Power supplies Two internal, redundant, field-replaceable, load-sharing power supplies
• Power inlet C13
• Input voltage 100 to 240 V or 48 V DC
• Input line frequency 50 to 60 Hz
• Inrush current 30 A peak at cold start and 50 A peak at warm start for <10 ms, 10 A peak for cycles 10 ms to 150 ms, <7 A peak for >150 ms
• Maximum current 6 A at 100 VAC 7 A at 90 VAC
• Typical power consumption At 100 VAC 2.18 A, 215 W, 733.81 BTU/hr At 200 VAC 1.12 A, 212 W, 723.57 BTU/hr Input current calculated with 1 PSU; watts and BTU/hour with 2 PSUs
• Maximum power consumption At 100 VAC 2.84 A, 282 W, 962.5 BTU/hr At 200 VAC 1.44 A, 276 W, 942 BTU/hr Input current calculated with 1 PSU; watts and BTU/hour with 2 PSUs
• 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 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• GB 4943.1-2011 and GB9254-2008 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• CNS14336-1(99) ARP
• CSA/NRTL Certification Telnet Protocol Specification
• FCC Class A A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagram over Ethernet Networks
• ICES-003 Class A FTP
• VCCI-Class A Using ARP to Implement Transparent Subnet Gateways (Proxy ARP)
• CE IGMPv1
• C-Tick Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1 and v2
• BSMI Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3
• KCC Class A TACACS+
• EN55024 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• RoHS-6 (with lead exemption) Directive 2002/95/EC NEBS-Compliant Multicast Extensions to OSPF
• VDX 6940 products conform to the following Ethernet standards: OSPF Database Overflow
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree BGP Communities Attribute
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol HTTP Server
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP OSPF with Digital Signatures (Password, MD-5)
• IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet IGMPv2
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Network Ingress Filtering
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging OSPF v2
• IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port OSPF Opaque Link-State Advertisement (LSA) Option—Partial Support
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames) Protection of BGP Sessions with the TCP MD5 Signature Option
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T BGP Route Flap Damping
• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X Internet Protocol, Version 6 (v6) Specification (on management interface)
• The following draft versions of the Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standards are also supported on the VDX 6940 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
• IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks (on management interface)
• IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection Definition of the Differentiated Services Field in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE 802.1 Working Group) An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
• FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0) IPv6 Router Alert Option
• RFC 768 Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)
• RFC 783 The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
• RFC 791 OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
• RFC 792 sFlow
• RFC 793 Capabilities Advertisement with BGPv4
• RFC 826 An Architecture for Describing SNMP Frameworks
• RFC 854 Message Processing and Dispatching for the SNMP
• RFC 894 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Applications
• RFC 959 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 1027 Graceful OSPF Restart—IETF Tools
• RFC 1112 VRRP
• RFC 1157 BGPv4
• RFC 1305 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 1492 IP Forwarding MIB
• RFC 1519 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)
• RFC 1584 ICMPv6 (replaces 2463)
• RFC 1765 BGP Route Reflection
• RFC 1812 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map
• RFC 1997 Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
• RFC 2068 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 2131 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 2154 BGP Support for Four-Octet AS Number Space
• RFC 2236 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
• RFC 2267 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• RFC 2328 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
• RFC 2370 Generic Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• RFC 2375 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
• RFC 2385 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 2439 BGP-EVPN—Network Virtualization Using VXLAN Data Plane
• RFC 2460
• RFC 2462 Use of BGP-MP Extensions for IPv6
• RFC 2464 OSPFv3 for IPv6
• RFC 2474
• RFC 2571 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
• RFC 2711
• RFC 2865 Maximum switches in a fabric
• RFC 3101 Maximum ECMP paths in a fabric
• RFC 3137 Maximum LAGs in a fabric
• RFC 3176 Service Node Load Balancing BFD/ARP Optimizations
• RFC 3392 Conversational MAC Learning
• RFC 3411 Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) spanning
• RFC 3412 Layer 2 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• RFC 3413 Supports 2K ingress and egress ACLs
• RFC 3587 Edge Loop Detection (ELD)
• RFC 3623 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) RFC 826
• RFC 3768 Private VLANs
• RFC 4271 Maintenance Mode/Graceful Traffic Diversion
• RFC 4291 Distributed VXLAN Gateway
• RFC 4292 Diagnostic Ports
• RFC 4293 IP Maps Support
• RFC 4443 L2 Loop prevention in an overlay environment
• RFC 4456 High availability/In-Service Software Upgrade—hardware-enabled
• RFC 4510 IGMP snooping support for multicast flooding
• RFC 4601 IGMPv1/v2 Snooping
• RFC 4724 IGMPv1/v2 Snooping
• RFC 4861 IGMPv3
• RFC 4893 MAC Learning and Aging
• RFC 5082 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) IEEE 802.3ad/802.1AX
• RFC 5880 Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
• RFC 5881 VLAN Encapsulation 802.1Q
• RFC 5882 Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+/PVRST+)
• RFC 5883 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 802.1w
• RFC 5942 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s
• RFC 7432 STP PortFast, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter
• IPv6 Routing STP Root Guard
• RFC 2545 Pause Frames 802.3x
• RFC 2740 Static MAC Configuration
• IPv6 Multicast Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
• RFC 2710 Uplink switch for Extreme VDX switches, Extreme VCS fabrics, and the Extreme VCS Virtual Fabric feature
• Transparent LAN Services
• Software scalability L2 Traceroute for VXLAN
• BUM Storm Control
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4+)
• Layer 2 switching DHCP Helper
• Layer 3 ACLs
• Multicast: PIM-SM, IGMPv2
• OSPF v2/v3
• Static routes
• IPv4/v6 ACL
• IPv4/v6 ACL
• Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• 32-Way ECMP
• VRF Lite
• VRF-aware OSPF, BGP, VRRP, static routes
• VRRP v2 and v3
• uRPF for IPv4 and IPv6
• IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
• IPv6 ACL packet filtering
• BGP automatic neighbor discovery for IP fabric
• BGP Additional-Path
• BGP-Allow AS
• BGP Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
• 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
• Layer 3 switching 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
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
• Deep on-chip packet buffer
• Auto QoS for NAS
• VCS fabric auto forming/auto healing
• Multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); requires Extreme VCS Fabric technology
• FC-BB5 compliant Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF)
• Native FCoE forwarding
• FCoE to Fibre Channel Bridging
• FCoE on Extreme 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
• Automation and programmability Dual Personality Ports
• Logical SANs
• ISSU L2 and L3
• BFD
• OSPF3-NSR
• BGP4-GR
• Management Module Failover
• ACL-based QoS
• Mulititenancy and virtualization Eight priority levels for QoS
• Class of Service (CoS) IEEE 802.1p
• DSCP Trust
• DSCP to Traffic Class Mutation
• DSCP to CoS Mutation
• DCB DSCP to DSCP Mutation
• Random Early Discard
• Per-port QoS configuration
• ACL-based Rate Limit
• Dual-rate, three-color token bucket
• IP storage 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
• Fibre Channel/FCoE Flow-based QoS
• Logical chassis management
• IPv4/IPv6 management
• Industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Netconf API
• REST API with YANG data model
• Extreme VDX Plugin for OpenStack
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IEEE 802.1AB
• MIB II RFC 1213 MIB
• Switch Beaconing
• Management VRF
• Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
• Telnet
• SNMP v1, v2C, v3
• sFlow RFC 3176
• High availability
• Out-of-band management
• Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
• RMON-1, RMON-2
• NTP
• Quality of Service (QoS) 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)
• Secure Copy Protocol
• Management and monitoring Port Security
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 36 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, AC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 36 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, AC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 24 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, DC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 24 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, DC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 24 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, AC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-36Q base system with 24 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, AC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 64 10 GbE SFP+ ports, AC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 64 10 GbE SFP+ ports, AC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 96 10 GbE SFP+ ports, AC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 96 10 GbE SFP+ ports, AC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 96 10 GbE SFP+ ports and up to 12 40 GbE QSFP+ ports or up to 4 100 GbE QSFP28 ports, AC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 96 10 GbE SFP+ ports and up to 12 40 GbE QSFP+ ports or up to 4 100 GbE QSFP28 ports, AC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 64 10 GbE SFP+ ports, DC power supply, non-port-side exhaust airflow
• VDX 6940-144S base system with 64 10 GbE SFP+ ports, DC power supply, port-side exhaust airflow
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