Brocade VDX 6740 BR-VDX6740-64-F Scheda Tecnica

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 Planned for Brocade Network OS 5.0 release.

General 

Operating system

Brocade Network OS 4.1.0

Layer 2 switching features

•  Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) RFC 826
•  High availability/In-Service Software Upgrade—

hardware-enabled

•  IGMP v1/v2 Snooping
•  MAC Learning and Aging
•  Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) IEEE 

802.3ad/802.1AX

•  Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
•  VLAN Encapsulation 802.1Q
•  Private VLANs

•  Edge loop detection (ELD)
•  Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+/PVRST+)
•  Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 802.1w
•  Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s
•  STP PortFast, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter
•  STP Root Guard
•  Layer 2 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
•  Pause Frames 802.3x
•  Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD) 

Layer 3 switching features

•  Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
•  DHCP Helper
•  Layer 3 ACLs
•  Multicast: PIM-SM
•  OSPF 
•  Static routes

•  VRF Lite
•  VRF-aware OSPF, VRRP, static routes
•  VRRP-E 
•  IPv4/IPv6 dual stack

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•  IPv6 ACL packet filtering

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Brocade VCS Fabric technology features

•  Automatic Fabric Formation
•  DHCP Option 66/67 (Auto Fabric Provisioning)
•  Distributed Configuration Management
•  Distributed Fabric Services
•  Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
•  Switch Beaconing

•  Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links 

(TRILL)

•  Transparent LAN Services
•  Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) spanning
•  VRRP-E

Multitenancy and virtualization features

•  TRILL FGL-based VCS Virtual Fabric feature
•  Brocade VCS Gateway for NSX with VMware NSX 

Orchestration

•  Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
•  VM-Aware Network Automation

DCB features

•  Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) 802.1Qbb
•  Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) 

802.1Qaz

•  Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)
•  DCBX Application Type-Length-Value (TLV) for 

FCoE and iSCSI 

FCoE features 

(Requires FCoE license)

•  Multihop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); 

requires Brocade VCS Fabric technology

•  FC-BB5 compliant Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF)
•  Native FCoE forwarding
•  FCoE to Fibre Channel Bridging
•  FCoE on Brocade VDX 6740 and Brocade VDX 

6740T

•  FCoE on QSFP+ port
•  End-to-end FCoE (initiator to target)

•  FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) v1 support for 

FCoE device login and initialization

•  Name Server-based zoning
•  Supports connectivity to FIP Snooping Bridge 

(FSB) device

•  FCoE traffic over standard LAG
•  Interface Binding
•  10 GbE CoD license needs to be activated in 

order to support FCoE on the Brocade VDX 

6740T-1G

IP storage

•  Auto QoS (automatic prioritization of  

IP storage traffic)

Quality of Service (QoS)

•  ACL-based QoS
•  Eight priority levels for QoS
•  Class of Service (CoS) IEEE 802.1p
•  DSCP Trust
•  DSCP to Traffic Class Mutation
•  DSCP to CoS Mutation
•  DSCP to DSCP Mutation
•  Random Early Discard

•  Per-port QoS configuration
•  ACL-based Rate Limit
•  Dual-rate three color token bucket
•  ACL-based remarking of CoS/DSCP/Precedence
•  ACL-based sFlow
•  Scheduling: Strict Priority (SP), Deficit Weighted 

Round-Robin (DWRR), Hybrid Scheduling (Hybrid)

•  Queue-based Shaping

Switch health monitoring

Brocade Fabric Watch monitoring and notification