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Lenovo Flex System Fabric CN4093 Product Manual

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Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable
Switch
Product Guide (withdrawn product)
The Flex System® Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch provides unmatched scalability, port
flexibility, performance, convergence, and network virtualization, while also delivering innovations to help
address a number of networking concerns today and providing capabilities that will help you prepare for the
future. The switch offers full Layer 2/3 switching as well as FCoE Full Fabric and Fibre Channel NPV Gateway
operations to deliver a truly converged integrated solution, and it is designed to install within the I/O module
bays of the Flex System Enterprise Chassis. The switch can help clients migrate to a 10 GbE or 40 GbE
converged Ethernet infrastructure and offers virtualization features like Virtual Fabric and VMready®.
Figure 1 shows the Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch.
Figure 1. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch
Did you know?
The CN4093 offers up to 12 external Omni Ports, which provide extreme flexibility with the choice of SFP+
based 10 Gb Ethernet connectivity or 4/8 Gb Fibre Channel connectivity, depending on the SFP+ module
used.
The base switch configuration comes standard with 22x 10 GbE port licenses that can be assigned to
internal connections or external SFP+, Omni or QSFP+ ports with flexible port mapping. For example, this
feature allows you to trade off four 10 GbE ports for one 40 GbE port (or vice versa) or trade off one external
10 GbE SFP+ or Omni port for one internal 10 GbE port (or vice versa). You then have the flexibility of turning
on more ports when you need them using Lenovo Features on Demand upgrade licensing capabilities that
provide "pay as you grow" scalability without the need to buy additional hardware.
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  • Page 1 10 GbE SFP+ or Omni port for one internal 10 GbE port (or vice versa). You then have the flexibility of turning on more ports when you need them using Lenovo Features on Demand upgrade licensing capabilities that provide “pay as you grow” scalability without the need to buy additional hardware.

  • Page 2: Part Number Information

    Both 00D5845 (Upgrade 1) and 00D5847 (Upgrade 2) can be applied on the switch at the same time to allow you to use 42 internal 10 GbE ports leveraging six ports on an eight-port expansion card, and to utilize all external ports on the switch. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 3 2x external 10 GbE SFP+ ports 12x external SFP+ Omni Ports 42x internal 10 GbE ports† 2x external 10 GbE SFP+ ports 12x external SFP+ Omni Ports 2x external 40 GbE QSFP+ ports Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)

  • Page 4: Supported Transceivers And Cables

    150 m with OM4 optical MTP-to-LC break-out cables. For longer distances, the 40GBASE- eSR4 transceivers can be used with OM3 optical break-out cables for distances up to 300 m or OM4 optical break-out cables for distances up to 400 m. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 5 Lenovo 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ Transceiver 49Y7884 A1DR Lenovo 40GBASE-iSR4 QSFP+ Transceiver 00D9865 ASTM Lenovo 40GBASE–eSR4 QSFP+ Transceiver 00FE325 A5U9 Lenovo 40GBASE-LR4 QSFP+ Transceiver 00D6222 A3NY Optical cables for 40 GbE QSFP+ SR4/iSR4/eSR4 transceivers Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 6 * Supported in SFP+ ports only, not supported in Omni Ports. Benefits The Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch is considered particularly suited for these clients: Clients who want to implement a converged infrastructure with FCoE where the CN4093 acts as a Full...
  • Page 7 With the majority of IT organizations implementing virtualization, there has been an increased need to reduce the cost and complexity of their environments. Lenovo is helping to address these requirements by removing multiple physical I/O ports. Virtual Fabric provides a way for companies to carve up 10 GbE ports into virtual NICs (vNICs) to meet those requirements with Intel processor-based compute nodes.

  • Page 8: Features And Specifications

    Lenovo switches. Furthermore, when leveraging tools like VMware vCenter Server or vSphere, Switch Center provides additional integration for better optimization. Features and specifications The Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch has the following features and specifications: Internal ports Forty-two internal full-duplex 10 Gigabit ports...
  • Page 9 IPv6 host management (except default switch management IP address) IPv6 forwarding Up to 128 static routes Support for OSPF v3 routing protocol IPv6 filtering with ACLs Virtual Station Interface Data Base (VSIDB) support Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 10 Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) Port security Fibre Channel ping, debugging Supports 2,000 secure FCoE sessions with FIP Snooping by using Class ID ACLs Fabric services in Full Fabric mode: Name Server Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)

  • Page 11: Standards Supported

    QoS metering and re-marking ACLs for out-profile traffic VMware Virtual Center (vCenter) for VMready Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) sFLOW Standards supported Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 12 The switches are installed in I/O module bays in the rear of the Flex System chassis, as shown in Figure 2. Switches are normally installed in pairs because ports on the I/O adapter cards installed in the compute Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 13 The figure shows both half-wide compute nodes, such as the x240 with two adapters, and full-wide compute nodes, such as the x440 with four adapters. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 14 Figure 3. Logical layout of the interconnects between I/O adapters and I/O modules Table 5 shows the connections between adapters installed in the compute nodes to the switch bays in the chassis. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 15 * Ports 7 and 8 are routed to I/O bays 1 and 2 (Slot 1 and Slot 3) or 3 and 4 (Slot 2 and Slot 4), but these ports cannot be used with the CN4093. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)

  • Page 16: Connectors And Leds

    Compute Node. The positions of the adapters in the other supported compute nodes are similar. Figure 4. Location of the I/O adapter slots in the Flex System x240 Compute Node Connectors and LEDs Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)

  • Page 17: Network Cabling Requirements

    Connectors and LEDs Figure 5 shows the front panel of the Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch. Figure 5. Front panel of the Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch The following components are located on the front panel:...

  • Page 18: Warranty

    40 Gb Ethernet 40GBASE-SR QSFP+ 40GBASE-SR4 10 m or 30 m MTP fiber optics cables supplied by Lenovo Transceiver (49Y7884) (see Table 3); support for up to 100 m (OM3 multimode fiber) or up to 150 m (OM4 multimode fiber)

  • Page 19: Physical Specifications

    Warranty The switch carries a 1-year, customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty. When installed in a chassis, the switch assumes your system’s base warranty and any Lenovo warranty service upgrade for the system. Physical specifications These are the approximate dimensions and weight of the switch: Height: 30 mm (1.2 in.)
  • Page 20 FCoE interface via internal 10 GbE links, as shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. CN4093 Virtual Fabric in the Full Fabric mode (end-to-end FCoE) The solution components used in the scenario depicted in Figure 6 are listed in Table 8. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 21 CN4093 FCoE Virtual Fabric in the NPV Gateway mode As part of an FCoE solution, the Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch can operate as an integrated FC Forwarder in the NPV Gateway mode, providing the capability to connect to the external Brocade or Cisco MDS storage networks, as shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8.
  • Page 22 Figure 7. CN4093 as an NPV Gateway connected to the Brocade SAN Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 23 Figure 8. CN4093 as an NPV Gateway connected to the Cisco MDS SAN The solution components used in the scenarios depicted in Figure 7 and Figure 8 are listed in Table 9 and Table 10 respectively. Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
  • Page 24 Flex System CN4054 Virtual Fabric Adapter Upgrade 90Y3558 1 per VFA Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch 00D5823 2 Flex System Fabric CN4093 Converged Scalable Switch (Upgrade 1)* 00D5845 1 per CN4093 RackSwitch G8264 Cisco MDS SAN fabric Storage systems...
  • Page 25 Lenovo provides extensive FCoE testing to deliver network interoperability. For a full listing of supported FCoE and iSCSI configurations, see the System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website at: http://ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic CN4093 with flexible port mapping (4-port network adapter example) Prior to Networking OS 7.8, compute nodes with 4-port network adapters required Upgrade 1 or Upgrade 2 for the CN4093 to enable connectivity on all four adapter ports despite of number of compute nodes and external connections used.

  • Page 26: Related Publications And Links

    8Gb SFP+ SW Optical Transceiver 44X1964 4 (2 per CN4093) Related publications and links For more information see the following Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch product publications, available from the Flex System Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp Installation Guide...
  • Page 27 Lenovo representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area. Any reference to a Lenovo product, program, or service is not intended to state or imply that only that Lenovo product, program, or service may be used. Any functionally equivalent product, program, or service that does not infringe any Lenovo intellectual property right may be used instead.
  • Page 28 Trademarks Lenovo, the Lenovo logo, and For Those Who Do are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lenovo in the United States, other countries, or both. A current list of Lenovo trademarks is available on the Web at http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/legal/copytrade/. The following terms are trademarks of Lenovo in the United States, other countries, or both: Flex System Lenovo®...

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