H3C S6530X series switches provide industry-leading high performance and scalable aggregation switching solution with modular dual power, fixed uplinks (40GE/100GE) and IRF for resiliency. The series offers OSPF/BGP and multicast, SDN enabled and flexible management.
The S6530X switch series contains the following models:
S6530X-24Y8C: 24×25GE SFP28 Ports, 8×40GE/100GE QSFP28 Ports, 5×fan tray slots, and 2×power module slots.
S6530X-48Y8C: 48×25GE SFP28 Ports, 8×40GE/100GE QSFP28 Ports, 5×fan tray slots, and 2×power module slots.
The switch offers high-density 25GE forwarding. It provides powerful hardware forwarding capacity and abundant campus features. It provides up to 48/24*1GE/10GE/25GE autosensing SFP28 ports and 8*100G ports. The switch supports modular power modules and fan trays. By using different fan trays, the switch can provide field changeable airflows.
H3C S6530X implements the WLAN function by installing an AC feature pack on the main control unit, thereby implementing both the wired function and the WLAN function on a single device. Embedded AC is a low-cost WLAN solution, save overall investment, improve forwarding capacity, realized a true unified wired and wireless solution in Campus. Max 2K AP supported on one single switches.
H3C Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF 2) virtualizes multiple S6530X switches into one virtual switch and provides the following benefits:
Scalability—IRF 2 allows you to add devices to the IRF 2 system easily. It provides a single point of management, enables switch plug-and-play, and supports software auto-update for software synchronization from the master to the new member devices. It brings business agility with lower total cost of ownership by allowing new switches to be added to the fabric without network topology change as business grows.
High availability—The H3C proprietary routing hot backup technology ensures redundancy and backup of all information on the control and data planes and non-stop Layer 3 data forwarding in an IRF 2 fabric. It also eliminates single point of failure and ensures service continuity.
Redundancy and load balancing—The distributed link aggregation technology supports load sharing and mutual backup among multiple uplinks, which enhances the network redundancy and improves link resources usage.
Flexibility and resiliency—The switch uses standard GE ports instead of specialized ports for IRF links between IRF member devices. This allows customers to assign bandwidth as needed between uplink, downlink, and IRF system connections. In addition, an S6530X IRF fabric can span a rack, multiple racks, or multiple campuses.
The switch offers a wide range of features, including:
Modular hardware and software design: The switch uses modular, hot swapping, and redundancy design for hardware, including power modules and fan trays. The switch also uses modular design for software, which enables feature installation and removal on an as-needed basis. Refined physical architecture and optimized software workflows greatly reduce the end-to-end packet processing delay.
Software-defined networking (SDN): An innovative network architecture that separates the control plane from the forwarding plane, typically by using OpenFlow. SDN significantly simplifies network management, reduces maintenance complexities and costs, enables flexible traffic management, and offers a good platform for network and application innovations.
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN): A MAC-in-UDP technology that provides Layer 2 connectivity between distant network sites across an IP network. VXLAN enables long-distance virtual machine and data mobility and is typically used in data centers and the access layer of campus networks for multitenant services. The H3C implementation of VXLAN supports automatic VXLAN tunnel establishment with EVPN.
Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is a Layer 2 VPN technology that provides both Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity between distant network sites across an IP network. EVPN uses MP-BGP in the control plane and VXLAN in the data plane. EVPN provides the following benefits: Configuration automation; Separation of the control plane and the data plane; Integrated routing and bridging (IRB).
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) and Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)—Ensure business continuity and improve Ethernet management and maintainability.
The switch supports AAA authentications (including RADIUS authentication) and dynamic or static binding of user identifiers such as user account, IP address, MAC address, VLAN, and port number. Using the switch in conjunction with H3C iMC, you can manage and monitor online users in real time and take prompt action on illegitimate behaviors.
The switch offers a large number of inbound and outbound ACLs and VLAN-based ACL assignment. This simplifies configurations and saves ACL resources.
MACsec is an ideal hop-by-hop link-layer security protocol for Ethernet networks, which are typically insecure. It provides the following services:
Data encryption: Encrypts data over the Ethernet link to protect data against security issues such as eavesdropping.
Anti-replay: Prevents packets from being intercepted and modified on theroute to protect the network against unauthorized access.
Tampering protection: prevents packet tampering to protect data integrity.
MACsec supports the following deployments:
Client-oriented: Protects data transmission over the link between the client and its access device.
Device-oriented mode: Protects data transmission over the link between two peering devices.
The switch can cooperate with H3C iNode client and core switches such as S10500X-G and S7500X-G to provide a complete MACsec solution.
In addition to node and link protection, the switch offers the following hardware high availability features:
1+1 power module redundancy and 5 fan tray redundancy.
Automatic power and fan tray status monitoring and alarming mechanisms.
Automatic fan speed adjustment based on the change in temperature.
Self-protection mechanisms that protect power modules against overcurrent, overvoltage, and overtemperature conditions.
Support hardware-level dual boot, use two FLASH chips to store boot software (system boot program), realize hardware-level boot redundancy backup, and avoid the failure of the switch to start due to FLASH chip failure.
The switch provides a variety of management features and is easy to manage. It offers the following device management features:
Provides multiple management interfaces, including the console port, out-of-band management Ethernet port, and USB port.
Supports configuration and management from CLI or H3C iMC Intelligent Management Center.
Supports multiple access methods, including SNMPv1/v2/v3, Telnet, and more secure SSH 2.0 and SSL.
Uses OAM to enhance system management capability.
Supports FTP for system upgrade.
H3C S6530X switch series supports the 1588V2 function to meet the high-precision time synchronization requirements between network devices. Compared with GPS time synchronization with the same precision, it improves security and lowers deployment costs.
H3C S6530X switch series supports iNQA. iNQA provides the following benefits:
True measurement results—iNQA measures the service packets directly to calculate packet loss results, thus reflecting the real network quality.
Wide application range—Applicable to Layer 2 network and Layer 3 IP network. iNQA supports the network-level and direct link measurement flexibly.
Fast fault location—iNQA obtains the packet loss time, packet loss location, and number of lost packets in real time.
Applicable to different applications—You can apply iNQA to multiple scenarios, such as point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-multipoint.
eMDI is a solution to audio and video service quality monitoring and fault locating. It is intended to solve problems caused by packet loss, packet sequence errors, and jitters.
eMDI monitors and analyzes specific TCP or RTP packets on each node of an IP network in real time, providing data for quickly locating network faults.
SmartMC is H3C's latest offering and innovation that helps small and middle size enterprise network to address management issue and is free of charge, easy to use web management tool. SmartMC is embedded network management tool into the switch, it includes commander switches and other access switches.
SmartMC delivers the following benefits:
Intelligent operation: once the switch is powered on and SmartMC function is enabled, topology will be created automatically, and user can go enhanced web GUI to check the latest status.
Centralized management: all management can be achieved via commander switch such as centralized configuration backup, and software version management, increasing working efficiency.
One key device replacement: in case of one switch failure, the new added same type switch can download the same configuration and work as old switch immediately
Multichassis Link Aggregation Group (M-LAG)
H3C S6530X switch series support M-LAG, which enables links of multiple switches to aggregate into one to implement device-level link backup. M-LAG is applicable to servers dual-homed to a pair of access devices for node redundancy.
Streamlined topology: M-LAG simplifies the network topology and spanning tree configuration by virtualizing two physical devices into one logical device.
Independent upgrading: The DR member devices can be upgraded independently one by one to minimize the impact on traffic forwarding.
High availability: The DR system uses a keepalive link to detect multi-active collision to ensure that only one member device forwards traffic after a DR system splits.
H3C S6530X series switches support Telemetry technology, which can send the switch's real-time resource information and alarm information to the O&M platform through the gRPC protocol.
The platform can realize network quality backtracking, troubleshooting, risk early warning, architecture optimization and other functions to accurately guarantee user experience by analyzing real-time data.
