Brocade VDX 6730 Hardware Reference Manual (Supporting VDX 6730-32 and VDX 6730-76) - Manual (Page 21)

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Brocade VDX 6730 overview
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• One forwarding FC ASIC
• 600 ns port-to-port latency, 1.8 μs across port groups
• 17-inch depth
• Dual, redundant, hot-swappable 500W AC power supplies
• Dual, redundant, hot-swappable 500W DC power supplies
• Triple, hot-swappable cooling fans in an n+1 configuration
Software features
The Brocade VDX 6730 switches support 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)
• Support for VLAN, QoS, security, and FCoE port profiles
• Virtual Machine-aware network automation
Convergence/FCoE
• Pause Frames (Tx and Rx)
• DCB features such as Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
• End-to-end, multi-hop FCoE
• FCoE and FC zoning and RSCN suppression (name server-based zoning)
• FC connectivity to Brocade FC SANs
Link aggregration
• 802.3ad LACP support
• Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) (a LAG that spans multiple physical switches)