Dell PowerEdge M1000e - Ethernet Switching

Blade Interconnects
M-Series Blade I/O Guide
Ethernet Switching
Models
MXL
I/O aggregator M8024-k M8428-k M6348 M6220 10Gb pass-through
Overview
10/40GbE Switch
High-performance blade
provides maximum
throughput, flexibility, and
iSCSI/FCoE convergence.
10GbE Plug and Play
Converge infrastructure and
connect easily to third-party
networks with this flexible
Layer 2 blade.
10GbE Basic
Transition to 10GbE
connectivity and extend an
available iSCSI/FCoE fabric
with this Layer 2/3 switch.
Ethernet/FC Switch
Connect directly to the Fibre
Channel SAN and Ethernet
LAN without the need for an
FCoE forwarding device.
1GbE High-density
Leverage existing Ethernet
cabling to enable broader
scalability in the data center
with this Layer 2/3 switch.
1GbE Basic
Flexible Layer 2/3 switch
with dual expansion slots
allowing you to customize
connectivity options.
Direct connection
Transparently connect 16
Dell blade servers into the
LAN of your choice at 10Gb
speeds.
Performance
Speeds
1, 10 or 40GbE 1 and 10GbE 1 and 10GbE 10GbE and 2/4/8Gb FC 1 and 10GbE 1 and 10GbE 10GbE
Switch fabric capacity
1.28Tbps 1.28Tbps 480Gbps 288Gbps 184Gbps 128Gbps -
Forwarding capacity (Mpps)
960 960 357 120 160 95 -
Buer size
9MB 9MB 2MB 7MB 4MB 768KB -
Latency (Microseconds)
0.68 µs 0 .68 µs 1.85 µs 0.6 µs 3.6 µs 6.3 µs 0.1 µs
Ports
Internal blade server ports
32 (10GbE) 32 (10GbE) 16 (10GbE) 16 (10GbE) 32 (1GbE) 16 (1GbE) 16 (10GbE)
External 1/10GbE (Base-T)
4 (using module) 4 (using module) 2 (using module) - 16 fixed (1GbE) 4 fixed (1GbE) -
External 10GbE
8 ports using QSFP+
breakout cables
(up to 24 using modules)
8 ports using QSFP+
breakout cables
(up to 16 using modules)
4 fixed SFP+ ports (1/10Gb)
(Add 4 more 10Gb ports
using module)
8 fixed SFP+
2 fixed SFP+
and 2 fixed CX4
4 (using modules)
16 fixed SFP+
(supports 10GbE only)
External 40GbE (QSFP+)
2 integrated QSFP+
(up to 6 using modules)
2 integrated QSFP+ fixed
in breakout mode (up to 6
using modules)
- - - - -
Native Fibre Channel support
Up to 8 FC ports (8Gb) Up to 8 FC ports (8Gb) - 4 integrated FC ports (8Gb) - - -
Expansion modules (FlexIO)
2 slots and 3 options (mix or match)
• 2 port QSFP+ (10/40GbE)¹
• 4 port SFP+ (1/10GbE)
• 4 port Base-T (1/10GbE)²
• 4 port FC8 (2/4/8Gb)
¹QSFP+ port on I/O Aggregator runs breakout mode 4x10GbE only
²Both devices limited to one Base-T module only. Populate second
slot with another module of your choice.
1 slot and 3 options
• 4 port SFP+ (10Gb only)
• 2 port Base-T (1/10Gb)
- -
2 slots and 4 options (Mix or
match)
• 2 port SFP+ (1/10GbE)
• 2 port Base-T (10GbE only)
• 2 port CX4 (1/10GbE)
• Stacking module (48Gbps)
-
Features
DCB: PFC, DCBx and ETS
Yes Yes Yes (PFC and DCBx) Yes - - Supports DCB/CEE and FCoE
FCoE
FCoE transit or direct connect FCoE transit or direct connect Transit Direct connect - - Transit
Converged iSCSI (LAN and SAN)
Yes Yes
Not suitable for iSCSI over
DCB
- - - Yes
Stacking
up to 6 using QSFP ports 2 via CLI only
up to 6 using SFP+ ports
or SFP+ module
- up to 12 using CX4 ports up to 6 using module -
PVST+
Yes - - - - - -
Simplied Networking Mode
- Default Simple Mode AG Mode (NPIV) FC only Simple Mode Simple Mode -
Accepts Cisco Twin-ax cables
Yes Yes Brocade cables only Yes Yes Yes
Optical transceivers supported
QSFP+ (SR only)
SFP+ (SR or LR)
SFP (SX, LX, and SFP to RJ45)
SFP+ (SR, LR, LRM)
SFP*: (SX, LX, or SFP to RJ45)
*Optics work in fixed ports only
Brocade Short Wave and
Long Wave Multi-mode
SFP+ (SR, LR, LRM) SFP+ (SR, LR, LRM) SFP+ (SR, LR)
Max L2 and L3 VLANs
4094/511 4094 (Layer 2 only) 1024/128 3583 (Layer 2 only) 1024/128 1024/128 -
Link Aggregation (Groups/Members)
128/16 1/16 12/8 28/8 48/8 18/8 -
Jumbo frames (Bytes)
12000 12000 9216 9048 Ethernet and 2112 FC 9216 9216 -
Max Routes (IPv4/IPv6)
16000/IPv6 Future - 8160/4096 4000 10000/3000 224/128 -
IPv4 Routing
RIP, OSPF - RIP, OSPF - RIP, OSPF RIP, OSPF -
IPv6 Routing
Future release - OSPF - OSPF OSPF -
Multicast Routing
IGMP IGMP Snooping only IGMP, PIM, DVMRP IGMP Snooping only IGMP, PIM, DVMRP, MLD IGMP, PIM, DVMRP -
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