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The H3C S12500X-AF DataCenter Cloud Core Switch Series is designed for cloud services data centers. It provides the following features:
CLOS+ multi-grade multi-plane architecture
With 768 line-speed 40G/100G interface per chassis and up to 9.6Tbps switch capacity per slot
Integration of IRF2 (Intelligent Resilient Framework version 2), and MDC (Multi-tenant Device Context) to implement virtual resource pools
Distributed ingress buffers (200 ms) to accommodate burst traffic in data centers
Independent control, detection, and maintenance engines to implement 50ms failover and powerful control capabilities
The S12500X-AF switch series includes S12504X-AF, 12508X-AF and S12516X-AF, which meet various port density and performance requirements. The S12500X-AF switch series can work with H3C routers, switches, security devices, IMC, and H3Cloud to provide a wide variety solutions
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CLOS+ multi-grade multi-plane architecture, midplane free design, providing continuous bandwidth upgrade capability
Supports industry first 48-port 40GE/ 100GE interfaces and can meet the existing and future application requirements of data centers
Adopts independent switching fabric modules and MPU engines to improve device availability and ensure bandwidth expansion
IRF2 can virtualize up to two S12500X-AF switches into one logical IRF fabric. IRF2 delivers the following benefits:
High Availability (HA) - Patented hot standby technology provides data backup and non-stop forwarding on the control plane and data plane. It improves availability and performance, eliminates single-point of failures, and ensures service continuity
Distribution - Multi-chassis link aggregation to enable load sharing and backup over multiple uplinks, improving redundancy and link utilization
Easy Management - A single IP address to manage the whole IRF fabric, which simplifies device and topology management, improving operating efficiency, and lowering network maintenance cost
MDC virtualizes one S12500X-AF switch into multiple logical switches, enabling multiple services to share one core switch. The 1:N virtualization maximizes switch utilization, reduces network TCO, and ensures secure isolation of services
EVI—EVI is a MAC-in-IP technology that provides Layer 2 connectivity between distant Layer 2 network sites across an IP routed network. It is used for connecting geographically dispersed sites of a virtualized large-scale data center that requires Layer 2 adjacency
FCOE—Integrates heterogeneous LANs and storage networks in data centers. FCOE and CEE integrate data, computing, and storage networks in data centers, reducing the costs for building and expanding data centers
VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) —VXLAN uses a MAC-in-UDP encapsulation method where the original Layer 2 package is added with a VXLAN header, and is then placed in a UDP-IP packet. With the help of MAC-in-UDP encapsulation, VXLAN tunnels Layer 2 network over Layer 3 network which provides two major benefits: higher scalability of Layer 2 segmentation and better utilization of available network paths
MP-BGP EVPN ( Mutliprotocol Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet Virtual Private Network) MP-BGP EVPN uses standard-based BGP protocol as the control plane for VXLAN overlay networks, providing BGP based VTEP auto peer discovery and end-host reachability information distribution. MP-BGP EVPN delivers many benefits, such as eliminating traffic flooding, reducing full mesh requirements between VTEPs via the introduction of BGP RR, achieving optimal flow based end to end load sharing and more
Large capacities for storing ARP/ND, MAC, and ACL entries
Independent control, detection, and maintenance engines provide powerful control capability and millisecond-level HA:
Independent control engine— Uses a powerful CPU system that can efficiently process protocol and control packets, providing refined control for protocol packets and comprehensive protection against protocol packet attacks
Independent detection engine— Provides highly reliable Fast Fault Detection and Restoration (FFDR) such as BFD and OAM, which can interact with protocols on the control plane to implement millisecond-level failover and convergence, ensuring service continuity
Independent maintenance engine—Uses an intelligent Embedded Maintenance Subsystem (EMS), a CPU system that provides smart power management, including sequential power-on and power-off and device status check. Sequential power-on and power-off reduces power impulse, electromagnetic radiation, power consumption, and extends the device lifespan
FFDR provides BFD and OAM functions to implement fast failover and convergence. The following lists the DC-class HA features:
BFD for VRRP/BGP/IS-IS/RIP/OSPF/RSVP/static routing
NSR/GR for OSFP/BGP/IS-IS/RSVP
Separation of control and data planes through independent control engine and switching fabric module.
1+1 redundancy for control engines
N+1 redundancy for switch fabric modules
1+1 redundancy for fan trays
N+M redundancy for power modules
The S12500X-AF switch series use QoS policies to filter and limit traffic from data plane to control plane. During a DoS attack, the switch can identify and protect important packets and discard attack packets, ensuring normal operation
Supports a large numbers of ACLs while ensuring line-speed forwarding. ACLs can identify and control L2/IPv4/IPv6/MPLS traffic by using combinations of packet fields
The S12500X-AF switch series supports hardware level encryption technology MACsec (802.1ae), which is an industry-standard security technology that provides secure communication for all traffic on Ethernet links.
Distributed ingress buffers accommodate burst traffic. Each port performs a precise bandwidth assignment and traffic shaping for incoming traffic, and distributes the traffic to ingress buffers. Distributed buffering can fully utilize the buffers of line cards to ensure best buffering performance
A network model change from C/S to B/S leads to increased volumes of burst traffic. Network devices must have larger buffering capabilities to support this. The S12500X-AF series supports 200 ms buffering of burst traffic per 10G interface, which can meet the burst traffic requirements of large data centers
Each chip can support 4GB buffer, maximum of 24GB buffer per line card
Each line card supports a maximum of 96K hardware queues, refined QoS, and traffic management. QoS can assign different priorities and queues to different users to provide differentiated services
Online state monitoring - Uses a dedicated engine to monitor the state of switch fabric modules, backplane channels, service communication channels, key chips, and storage. Once a failure occurs, it reports the failure to the system through EMS
Card isolation- Isolates specified cards from the forwarding plane. The isolated cards still work on the control plane, allowing the user to perform management operations such as real-time diagnosis and CPLD upgrade on the isolated cards without affecting system operation
Ethernet OAM- Provides multiple device-level and network-level fault detection methods
Intelligent EMS engine system - Provides smart power management that supports sequential power-on and power-off and device status check. Sequential power-on and power-off reduces power impulse and electromagnetic radiation, and increases the lifetime of the device. Additionally, device status checks can isolate faulty and idle cards to reduce power consumption
Smart fan management- Collects fan temperature, calculates fan speed, and assigns the calculated speed to the fan tray. In addition, it detects fan speeds, fault alarms, and performs speed adjustment based on configuration sand area, reducing power consumption and noise, increasing the fan's lifetime
Internal interface monitoring-Automatically shuts down unused internal interfaces to reduce power consumption
RoHS compliance - The S12500X-AF switch series meets the EU RoHS safety standards.
The S12500X-AF switch series is designed with front to back air flow, satisfying highly efficient heat dissipation requirements in data center.
Item | S12504X-AF | S12508X-AF | S12516X-AF | |||
Switching capacity | 57.6T/387Tbps | 115.2T/516Tbps | 230.4T/1032Tbps | |||
Throughput | 28800Mpps | 57600Mpps | 115200Mpps | |||
MPU slots | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
LPU slots | 4 | 8 | 16 | |||
Maximum power consumption | 4800 W | 9600 W | 19200W | |||
Weight (full configuration) | ≤ 100 kg ≤ 220.5 lb | ≤ 190 kg ≤ 418.9 lb | ≤ 350 kg ≤ 771.6 lb | |||
Dimensions (H x W x D) | 264 x 440 x 857 mm (6U) 10.4 x 17.3 x 33.7 in | 531 x 440 x 857 mm (12U) 20.9 x 17.3 x 33.7 in | 931 x 440 x 857 mm (21U) 36.7 x 17.3 x 33.7 in | |||
Switching fabric module slots | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||
MPU Name | LSXM1SUP04B1 | LSXM1SUP04H1 | LSXM1SUPB1 | LSXM1SUPH1 | LSXM1SUPB1 | LSXM1SUPH1 |
MPU processor | Quad Core 1.2 GHz | Quad Core 1.2 GHz | Quad Core 1.2 GHz | |||
MPU SDRAM | 8 GB | 16 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB |
MPU Flash | 1 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB | |||
MPU Console Port | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
MPU MGMT Ports | 2x 10/100/1000M Base-T 2x 1000M SFP | 2x 10/100/1000M Base-T 2x 1000M SFP | 1x 10/100/1000M Base-T 1x 1000M SFP | 2x 10/100/1000M Base-T 2x 1000M SFP | 1x 10/100/1000M Base-T 1x 1000M SFP | |
MPU USB Port | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Redundancy | Redundant MPUs, switching fabric modules, power modules, and fan trays |
Item | Feature description |
Device Virtualization | IRF |
Network Virtualization | BGP-EVPN |
VxLAN | |
VxLAN | L2 VxLAN gateway |
L3 VxLAN gateway | |
Distributed VxLAN gateway | |
Centralized VxLAN gateway | |
EVPN VxLAN | |
manual configured VxLAN | |
IPv4 VxLAN tunnel | |
Programmability | Openflow1.3 |
Netconf | |
Ansible | |
Python//TCL/Restful API to realize DevOps automated operation and maintenance | |
Traffic analysis | Sflow |
VLAN | Port-based VLANs |
VLAN mapping | |
L2PT | |
MVRP(Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol) | |
MAC address | Dynamic learning and aging of mac address entries |
Dynamic,static and blackhole entries | |
IPv4 routing (Hardware-based unicast routing) | RIP(Routing Information Protocol) v1/2 |
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) v1/v2 | |
ISIS(Intermediate System to Intermediate system) | |
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) | |
Routing policy | |
VRRP | |
PBR | |
ICMP | |
IPv6 routing (Hardware-based unicast routing) | RIPng |
OSPFv3 | |
IPv6 ISIS | |
BGP4+ | |
Routing policy | |
VRRP | |
PBR | |
IPv6 ICMP | |
IP Service | DHCP Server, DHCP Relay, DHCP Snooping DHCP server of 3K operations/second |
MPLS/VPLS | Support L3 MPLS VPN |
Support MCE | |
VPLS | |
Support MPLS OAM | |
Support P/PE function | |
Support LDP protocol | |
Multicast (Hardware-based multicast routing) | IGMP snooping |
MLD snooping | |
IPv4 and IPv6 multicast VLAN | |
IPv4 and IPv6 PIM snooping | |
IGMP and MLD | |
PIM and IPv6 PIM, Any-RP | |
MSDP | |
Reliability | LACP LACP local forwarding first LACP short-time LACP Stack split detection |
STP/RSTP/MSTP protocol, PVST compatible | |
STP Root Guard and BPDU Guard | |
RRPP and ERPS(ITU-T G.8032) | |
Loopback detection | |
Ethernet OAM | |
Smartlink | |
DLDP | |
BFD for OSPF/OSPFv3, BGP/BGP4, IS-IS/IS-ISv6, PIM/IPM for IPv6 and Static route | |
VRRP and VRRPE | |
Telemetry | ERSPAN |
Packet capture | |
QOS | Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) and tail drop |
Flexible queue scheduling algorithms based on port and queue, including strict priority (SP), Weighted Deficit Round Robin (WDRR), Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), SP + WDRR, and SP + WFQ. | |
Traffic shaping | |
COPP | |
QOS | Committed access rate (CAR) |
Account by packet and byte | |
Packet filtering at L2 (Layer 2) through L4 (Layer 4); flow classification based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, source IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, destination IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, port, protocol, and VLAN to apply qos policy,including mirroring,redirection,priority remark etc. | |
Configuration and maintenance | Console telnet and SSH terminals |
SNMPv1/v2/v3 | |
ZTP | |
Configuration and maintenance | System log |
File upload and download via FTP/TFTP BootRom update and remote update | |
NQA | |
ping,tracert | |
NTP | |
Security and management | Hierarchical management and password protection of users |
Authentication methods,including AAA,RADIUS and HWTACACS | |
Support DDos, ARP attack and ICMP attack function | |
SSH 2.0 | |
HTTPS | |
SSL | |
PKI | |
Boot ROM access control (password recovery) | |
RMON | |
permit third party transceivers (license) | |
HA | Independent switching fabric modules 1+1 redundancy or key components such as MPUs and power modules N+1 redundancy for switching fabric modules Passive backplane CLOS+ midplane free design (12500X-AF) Hot swapping for all components Real-time data backup on active/standby MPUs |
HA | Hot patching NSR/GR for OSFP/BGP/IS-IS/RSVP Port aggregation and multi-card link aggregation BFD for VRRP/BGP/IS-IS/OSPF/RSVP/static routing, with a failover time less than 50 milliseconds IP FRR and TE FRR with a switchover time less than 50 millisecond |
IEEE Standard | 802.3ab/802.3ae/802.3z/802.3x/802.3ad 802.3AH/802.1P/802.1Q/802.1X/802.1D/802.1w/802.1s/802.1AG 802.1x/802.1Qbb/802.1az/802.1Qaz |
RFC | RFC793/RFC2328/RFC1256/RFC1771/RFC1185/RFC1191/RFC1195/RFC1195/RFC1212/RFC1213/RFC1213/RFC1213/RFC1215/RFC1245/RFC1246/RFC1256/RFC1256/RFC1265/RFC1266/RFC1268/RFC1271/RFC1284/RFC1286/RFC1305/RFC1305/RFC1305/RFC1321/RFC1323 |
EMC | FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) CLASS A ICES-003 CLASS A VCCI CISPR 32 CLASS A CISPR 22 CLASS A EN 55022 CLASS A AS/NZS CISPR22 CLASS A CISPR 32 CLASS A EN 55032 CLASS A AS/NZS CISPR32 CLASS A CISPR 24 EN 55024 EN 61000-3-2 EN 61000-3-3 ETSI EN 300 386 |
Temperature | Operating temperature: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) |
Humidity | 5% to 95% (non-condensing) |
Environmental protection | WEEE and RoHS |
Safety | UL 60950-1 CAN/CSA C22.2 No 60950-1 IEC 60950-1 EN 60950-1 AS/NZS 60950-1 FDA 21 CFR Subchapter J GB 4943.1 |
Item | Description | HB LPU | HF LPU |
Virtualization | IRF2.0 stack | 2 | 2 |
M-LAG device number | 2 | 2 | |
ACL | max number of ingress ACLs | 40K | 40K |
max number of ingress Car | 8K | 8K | |
max number of ingress Counter | 8K | 8K | |
max number of egress ACLs | 20K | 20K | |
max number of egress Counter | 4K | 4K | |
Forwarding table | Jumbo frame length(byte) | 12288 | 12288 |
Mirroring group | 15 | 15 | |
PBR policy | 1000 | 1000 | |
PBR node | 256 | 256 | |
max number of MACs per switch | 750K | 750K | |
max number of ARP entries IPv4 | 350K | 1M | |
max ND table size for IPv6 | 48K | 48K | |
max number of unicast routes IPv4 | 250K | 4M | |
max number of unicast routes IPv6 | 64K | 2M | |
IPv4 l2 multicast group | 2000 | 4000 | |
IPv4 l3 multicast group | 2000 | 4000 | |
IPv4 multicast routing | 16K | 16K | |
IPv6 l2 multicast group | 1000 | 2000 | |
IPv6 l3 multicast group | 1000 | 2000 | |
IPv6 multicast routing | 8K | 8K | |
LAGG group | 1024 | 1024 | |
LAGG member per group | 64 | 64 | |
ECMP group | max 2047 | max 2047 | |
ECMP member per group | 2-128 | 2-128 | |
VRF | 4095 | 4095 | |
Interface | Loopback interface number | 1K | 1K |
L3 sub interface number | 4094 | 4094 | |
SVI interface number | 4094 | 4094 | |
VxLAN AC number | 16K | 16K | |
VxLAN VSI number | 16K | 16K | |
VxLAN tunnel number | 4K | 4K | |
VSI interface number | 8K | 8K | |
IPv4 tunnel number | 127 | 127 | |
IPv6 tunnel number | 127 | 127 | |
VLAN number | 4094 | 4094 | |
Performance | RIB | 1M | 4M |
MSTP instance | 64 | 64 | |
PVST instance | 128 | 128 | |
PVST logical port number | 1000 | 1000 | |
VRRP VRID | 16 | 16 | |
Performance | VRRP group | 256 | 256 |
NQA group | 32 | 32 | |
MPLS/VPLS | LDP peer | 128(local),256(remote) | 128(local),256(remote) |
VRF | 4000 | 4000 | |
VPLS: Number of Pseudo Wires | 4000 | 4000 | |
VPLS: number of peers/single VPLS full mesh instance | 100 | 100 | |
RSVP adjacency | 200 | 200 | |
Static table | static mac-address | 20K | 20K |
static multicast mac-address | 256 | 256 | |
static ARP | 8K | 8K | |
static ND | 1K | 1K | |
static IPv4 routing table | 250K | 250K | |
static IPv6 routing table | 128K | 128K |
The typical data center application is an EVPN-VxLAN design,S12500G-AF or S12500X-AF swithes work as spine or spine/border, S68XX series work as leaf and border or ED. From this design ,the users can get a non-blocking large L2 system.
Product ID | Product Description |
LS-12504X-AF | H3C S12504X-AF Ethernet Switch Host |
LS-12508X-AF | H3C S12508X-AF Ethernet Switch Host |
LS-12516X-AF | H3C S12516X-AF Ethernet Switch Host |
LSXM1SUP04B1 | H3C S12504X-AF Supervisor Engine Module |
LSXM1SUP04H1 | H3C S12504X-AF Supervisor Engine Unit |
LSXM1SUPB1 | H3C S12500X-AF Supervisor Engine Module |
LSXM1SUPH1 | H3C S12500X-AF Supervisor Engine Unit |
LSXM1SFH04D1 | H3C S12504X-AF Fabric Module,Type H(Class D) |
LSXM1SFH08C1 | Switching Fabric Module For S12508X-AF,Type H(Class C) |
LSXM1SFH08D1 | H3C S12508X-AF Fabric Module,Type H(Class D) |
LSXM1SFH08E1 | Switching Fabric Module For S12508X-AF,Type H(Class E) |
LSXM2SFH16C1 | H3C S12516X-AF Fabric Module,Type H(Class C) |
LSXM1SFH16C1 | H3C S12516X-AF Fabric Module,Type H(Class C+) |
LSXM1SFH16E1 | H3C S12516X-AF Fabric Module,Type H(Class E) |
LSXM1CGQ18QGHF1 | H3C S12500X-AF 18-PORT 100GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface(QSFP28)/36-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP+)(HF) |
LSXM1CGQ18QGHB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 18-Port 100GBASE (QSFP28)/36-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module (QSFP+)(HB) |
LSXM1TGS24QGMODHB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 24-Port 10GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface(SFP+,LC)+4-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP+)(HB),With 1 Expansion Slot |
LSXM1CGQ36HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 36-Port 100GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP28)(HB) |
LSXM1QGS36HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 36-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP+)(HB) |
LSXM1TGS48HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 48-Port 10GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(SFP+,LC)(HB) |
LSXM1QGS48HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 48-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP+)(HB) |
LSXM1CGQ48HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 48-Port 100GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP28)(HB) |
LSXM1CGQ6QGHB1 | H3C S12500X-AF 6-Port 100GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface(QSFP28)/12-Port 40GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP+)(HB) |
LSXM1TGS48C2HB1 | H3C S12500X-AF,48-Port 10G BASE Ethernet Optical Interface(SFP+,LC)+2-Port 100GBASE Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP28)(HB) |
LSXM1BFP16A | 16 Fabric Blank Filler Panel |
LSXM1BFP08A | 08 Fabric Blank Filler Panel |
LSXM1BFP04A | 04 Fabric Blank Filler Panel |
LSXM116XFAN | H3C S12516X-AF Ethernet Switch Fan Module |
LSXM108XFAN | H3C S12508X-AF Ethernet Switch Fan Module |
LSXM104XFAN | H3C S12504X-AF Ethernet Switch Fan Module |
LSXM116XFANH | H3C S12516X-AF Ethernet Switch High Speed Fan Module |
LSXM108XFANH | H3C S12508X-AF Ethernet Switch High Speed Fan Module |
LSXM104XFANH | H3C S12504X-AF Ethernet Switch High Power Fan Module |
PSR2400-54A | AC Power Module,2400W |
PSR2400-54D | DC Power Module,2400W |
PSR3000-54A | 3000W AC Power Supply Module |
PSR3000-54AHD | 3000W AC & 240V-380V HVDC Power Supply |