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Infiniband

Models

Mellanox 4001F

Mellanox 4001T

Overview

High performance

Infiniband switch

Mainstream

Infiniband switch

Performance

Speed / Bit rate

FDR / 56Gbps

FDR10 / 40Gbps

Data rate

56Gbps

40Gbps

Switch capacity

3.58 Tbps

2.56 Tbps

Features

Total ports

32 (16 internal & 16 external)

IBTA compliance

Meets Infiniband Trade Association specification 1.21 & 1.3

Quality of Service (QoS)

Advanced scheduling engine supports QoS for up to 9

traffic classes and 9 virtual lanes (8 data + 1 management)

Linear forwarding table

256 to 4Kbyte MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)

Multicast subnet addresses

48K

Unicast subnet addresses

16K

Management

Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)

software stack contains a subnet manager and switch

management tools to include: diagnostics, debugging,

port mirroring, and OpenSM or third-party

subnet manager capability.

Optics/cables

QSFP active optical or passive fiber

Blade Interconnects

M-Series Blade I/O Guide

Transform your Dell M1000e blade server enclosure.

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Cisco

Models

B22DELL FEX

3130X

3130G

3032

Overview

10GbE Nexus Extender

Acts as remote line card of

the parent Nexus switch

fabric. (Models 5548P,

5548UP, or 5596P only)

Catalyst Blade Switches

Basic interconnects for Dell M1000e customers

who want to maintain a Cisco fabric from server to core.

Performance

Speeds

1 & 10GbE

1 & 10GbE

1 GbE

1 GbE

Switch fabric capacity

160 Gbps

160 Gbps

160 Gbps

48 Gbps

Forwarding capacity (Mpps)

297

59

59

36

Latency (Microseconds)

0.8 μs

-

-

-

Ports

Internal blade server ports

16 (1 or 10GbE)

16 (1GbE)

16 (1GbE)

16 (1GbE)

External 1GbE

-

4 ports (Base-T)

4 ports (Base-T)

4 ports SFP using modules

External 10GbE

8 ports SFP+

2 ports 10GbE

using modules

-

Expansion modules

-

Two slots four options:

10GBase-CX4 X2

10GBase-SR X2

10GBase-LRM X2

OneX SFP+ Converter*

*Not sold by Dell

Ships with two TwinGig
converter modules that

support 1Gb SFP

(copper or optical)

Features

DCB: PFC, DCBx & ETS

Yes

-

-

-

FCoE Yes

-

-

-

Converged iSCSI (LAN & SAN)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Stacking

(Virtual Blade Switch)

up to 9 managed at ToR

up to 9

up to 9

-

PVST+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Simplifi ed Networking Mode

Managed at Top-of-Rack

No

No

No

Twin-ax cables

1m: SFP-H10GB-CU1M

3m: SFP-H10GB-CU3M
5m: SFP-H10GB-CU5M

7m: SFP-H10GB-ACU7M

10m: SFP-H10GB-ACU10M

1m: SFP-H10GB-CU1M

3m: SFP-H10GB-CU3M
5m: SFP-H10GB-CU5M

N/A

Optical transceivers supported

FET-10G

¹

SFP-10G-SR
SFP-10G-LR
SFP-10G-ER

¹FET-10G optic can only be used

to connect FEX to Nexus

SFP-10G-SR

SFP-RJ45 converter

SFP-LC connector-SWL
SFP-LC connector-LWL

Max L2 & L3 VLANs

4013

1005 / 4096

Link Aggregation (Groups/Members)

96 / 16

48 / 8

Jumbo frames (Bytes)

9216

9216

Max Routes (IPv4 / IPv6)

Managed at Top-of-Rack

up to 11,000 (IPv4 only)

IPv4 Routing

Managed at Top-of-Rack

Ships with IP Base features: Static routes & RIP.

Additional features can be purchased: EIGRP,

OSPF, and BGP as part of IP Services license.

Static routes, RIP,

and EIGRP stub

IPv6 Routing

Managed at Top-of-Rack

Available with additional license:

Advanced IP Services feature set.

N/A

Multicast Routing

Managed at Top-of-Rack

IGMP, PIM, DVMRP available with

additional IP Services license.

IGMP

1 product / 3 versions

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