Key Features; Features And Benefits - HP 12500 Quickspecs

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Overview

Key features

Optimized for cata centers with extensive virtualization and convergence featured
Broad interface options from 1G to 100G scaling up to 24.3 Tbps switching capacity
SDN ready with Open Flow 1.3 support
Large Layer 2 and Layer 3 tables to support large scale deployments
Fully redundant architecture with hot swappable components

Features and benefits

Data center optimized
NEW Scalable Layer 2 fabrics
build flexible, resilient, and scalable Layer 2 fabrics with SPB and HP IRF
Multitenant Device Context (MDC)
is an innovative data center virtualization solution that enables multi-tenancy, giving customers the ability to virtualize a
physical switch into multiple logical devices, with each logical switch having its own tenants
HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect (EVI)
is an HP Virtual Application Network innovation that provides a Layer 2 extension across the data center to simplify the
interconnectivity of geographically disperse data centers
NEW Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols
provide support for IEEE 802.1Qaz Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), and IEEE
802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC) for converged fabrics
NEW Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) features
deliver support for FCoE, including expansion, fabric, trunk VF and N ports, and aggregation of E-port and N-port virtualization
Accelerated perfomance with jumbo frames
for intra-data-center communication, or for data center to data center traffic (disaster recovery), reducing the amount of time
required for data backup and recovery
Network load balancing (NLB) multicast ARP
Microsoft® NLB co-works with multicast ARP to provide servers with load balancing and fault switchover, which lowers costs and
investment
Software-defined networking
NEW Supports OpenFlow 1.3 specifications
to enable SDN by allowing separation of the data (packet forwarding) and control (routing decision) paths
Performance
NEW High performance design with nonblocking and distributed Clos architecture
delivers up to 24.3 Tbps switching capacity and 10.8 Bpps throughput with up to 400 Gbps per line card slot
NEW High-density 1GbE,10GbE and 40GbE interface connectivity
offers up to 18 interface module slots to scale up to 864 1GbE and 1/10GbE and 288 40GbE ports
Hardware-based wirespeed access control lists (ACLs)
help provide high levels of security and ease of administration without impacting network performance with a feature-rich
TCAM-based ACL implementation
High-performance processor system
the supervisor module uses three different processors to isolate key tasks: control plane (STP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, etc.), fast
recovery protocols (RRPP, BFD, etc.), and chassis management (temperature, power, etc.)
Product architecture
DA - 13785 Worldwide — Version 24 — May 12, 2014
HP 12500 Switch Series
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