Software Features - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade VDX 6740 Hardware Reference Manual

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Port numbering for the Brocade VDX 6740 switches begins with 1, not 0.

Software features

The Brocade VDX 6740 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 features
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Virtualization
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Link aggregation
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QoS
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Management
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Four temperature sensors (Brocade VDX 6740 only)
Two temperature sensor (Brocade VDX 6740T only)
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I C interface to monitor and control environmental aspects
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 - PM)
Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN - SPAN across VCS)
Layer 3 PIM multicast, ACL
Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
Support for VLAN, QoS, security, and FCoE port profiles
802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) support
Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) (a LAG that spans multiple physical switches)
802.1p marking
Eight queues per port
Scheduling: Strict priority (SP), Shaped Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (SDWRR)
Ingress and egress policing
IPv4 or IPv6 management
Brocade VDX 6740 overview
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