Brocade VDX 6710-54 Hardware Reference Manual - Manual (Page 20)

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Brocade VDX 6710-54 overview
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• Dual, hot-swappable 250W AC power supplies with three integrated cooling fans each, or
dual, hot-swappable 12V 250 W DC power supplies with three integrated cooling fans each
• Support for long-range and short-range SFP+ 10 GbE transceivers
• Support for optical cables and active twin axial (twinax) copper cables
• Support for direct-attach copper cables
• Support for inter-switch link (ISL) trunking
- Frame-level hardware-based trunking (even distribution of frames across trunk links)
• A rack-mount design using existing rail kits (fixed and mid-mount or Telco rail kits) on a 19-inch
EIA rack (also suitable for reduced-depth racks)
• Extensive diagnostics and system-monitoring capabilities for enhanced high Reliability,
Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)
• Optimized airflow (a choice of front-to-back or back-to-front flow)
• A real-time clock (RTC) with battery
• SEEPROM for switch identification
• Voltage monitoring
• Fan monitoring
• Three temperature sensors
• I2C interface to monitor and control environmental aspects
NOTE
Port numbering for the Brocade VDX 6710-54 begins with 1, not 0.
Software features
The Brocade VDX 6710-54 switch supports the following features. For more details on these
features, refer to the Brocade Network OS Administrator’s Guide.
Layer 2 and Layer 3 security features
• VLANs
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP, MSTP and PVST+ and PVRST+)
• Support for unicast and multicast capabilities
• Support for IGMP snooping
• Layer 2 multi-path based on Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
• Layer 2 access control lists (ACLs)
• Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) (also known as port mirroring)
• Management access ACLs
Virtualization
• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)