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Data sheet | HP 2620 Switch Series
Management
• Dual ash images
Provides independent primary and secondary operating system les for backup while upgrading
• Friendly port names
Allows assignment of descriptive names to ports
• Multiple conguration les
Are easily stored with a ash image
• Port mirroring
Enables trac on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring
• sFlow (RFC 3176)
Delivers wire-speed trac accounting and monitoring, congured by the SNMP and CLI with
three terminal encrypted receivers
• Remote monitoring (RMON)
Provides advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities for statistics, history, alarms, and events
• Find, x, and inform
Finds and xes common network problems automatically, and then informs the administrator
• NEW Comware CLI
– Comware-compatible CLI
Bridges the experience of HP Comware CLI users who use the HP ProVision software CLI
– Display and fundamental Comware CLI commands
Are embedded in the switch CLI as native commands; display output is formatted as on
Comware-based switches and fundamental commands provide a Comware-familiar initial
switch setup
– Conguration Comware CLI commands
Elicit CLI help to formulate the correct ProVision software CLI command
L2 switching
• VLANs
Provide support for 512 VLANs and 4,094 VLAN IDs
• Jumbo packet support
Improves the performance of large data transfers; and supports frame sizes up to 9220 bytes
• IEEE 802.1v protocol VLANs
Isolate select non-IPv4 protocols automatically into their own VLANs
• NEW Per-VLAN spanning tree plus (PVST+)
Allows each VLAN to build a separate spanning tree, improving link bandwidth usage in
network environments with multiple VLANs
L3 routing
• Static IP routing
Provides manually congured routing; and includes the ECMP capability
• Routing information protocol (RIP)
Provides RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing
Security
• Access control lists (ACLs)
Provide IP L3 ltering, based on the source/destination IP address/subnet and source/destination
TCP/UDP port number
• Source-port ltering
Allows only specied ports to communicate with each other
• RADIUS/TACACS+
Eases switch management security administration by using a password authentication server
• Secure shell
Encrypts all transmitted data for secure remote CLI access over IP networks