Ethernet Standards - Lenovo RackSwitch G8264CS Product Manual

Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE):
FC-BB5 FCoE specification compliant
Native FC Forwarder (FCF) switch operations
End-to-end FCoE support (initiator to target)
FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for automatic ACL configuration
Link Aggregation Group (LAG) support for FCoE connections
Supports 2,048 FCoE sessions with FIP Snooping by using Class ID ACLs
Omni Ports support 4 Gb or 8 Gb FC when FC SFPs+ are installed in these ports
Support for F_port, E_Port ISL, NP_port and VF_port Fibre Channel port types
Full Fabric mode for end-to-end FCoE or FCoE gateway; NPV Gateway mode for external FC
SAN attachments
Fabric services in Full Fabric mode:
Name Server
Fabric login services
Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
Fabric-Device Management Interface (FDMI)
Port security
Zoning
Manageability:
Industry-standard command line interface (isCLI)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP V1, V2 and V3)
Telnet interface for CLI
Secure Shell (SSH) v1 and v2 for CLI
Secure Copy (SCP) for uploading and downloading the switch configuration via secure
channels
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for discovering network devices
Serial interface for CLI
Scriptable CLI
Dual software images
Firmware image update via TFTP, FTP, or Secure FTP (sFTP)
Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization
Netconf (XML)
Lenovo Switch Center management application (optional; sold separately)
Lenovo xClarity (optional; sold separately) for discovery, inventory, monitoring and events
Monitoring:
Switch LEDs for port status and switch status indication
Remote Monitoring (RMON) agent to collect statistics and proactively monitor switch
performance
Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
Support for sFLOW agent for monitoring traffic in data networks (separate sFLOW analyzer
required elsewhere)
The following features are not supported with IPv6:
Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and DHCP
RADIUS, TACACS+ and LDAP
VMware Virtual Center (vCenter) for VMready
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
sFLOW

Ethernet standards

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