Technical data

2 Brocade VDX 6710-54 Hardware Reference Manual

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Brocade VDX 6710-54 overview

• Dual, hot-swappable 250W AC power supplies with three integrated cooling fans each, or

dual, hot-swappable 12V 250 W DC power supplies with three integrated cooling fans each

• Support for long-range and short-range SFP+ 10 GbE transceivers

• Support for optical cables and active twin axial (twinax) copper cables

• Support for direct-attach copper cables

• Support for inter-switch link (ISL) trunking

- Frame-level hardware-based trunking (even distribution of frames across trunk links)

• A rack-mount design using existing rail kits (fixed and mid-mount or Telco rail kits) on a 19-inch

EIA rack (also suitable for reduced-depth racks)

• Extensive diagnostics and system-monitoring capabilities for enhanced high Reliability,

Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)

• Optimized airflow (a choice of front-to-back or back-to-front flow)

• A real-time clock (RTC) with battery

• SEEPROM for switch identification

• Voltage monitoring

• Fan monitoring

• Three temperature sensors

• I2C interface to monitor and control environmental aspects

NOTE

Port numbering for the Brocade VDX 6710-54 begins with 1, not 0.

Software features

The Brocade VDX 6710-54 switch supports the following features. For more details on these

features, refer to the Brocade Network OS Administrator’s Guide.

Layer 2 and Layer 3 security features

• VLANs

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP, MSTP and PVST+ and PVRST+)

• Support for unicast and multicast capabilities

• Support for IGMP snooping

• Layer 2 multi-path based on Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)

• Layer 2 access control lists (ACLs)

• Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) (also known as port mirroring)

• Management access ACLs

Virtualization

• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)