BladeIO Guide

Infiniband
Models
Mellanox 4001F Mellanox 4001T
Overview
High performance
Infiniband switch
Mainstream
Infiniband switch
Performance
Speed / Bit rate FDR / 56Gbps FDR10 / 40Gbps
Data rate 56Gbps 40Gbps
Switch capacity 3.58 Tbps 2.56 Tbps
Features
Total ports 32 (16 internal & 16 external)
IBTA compliance Meets Infiniband Trade Association specification 1.21 & 1.3
Quality of Service (QoS)
Advanced scheduling engine supports QoS for up to 9
traffic classes and 9 virtual lanes (8 data + 1 management)
Linear forwarding table 256 to 4Kbyte MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)
Multicast subnet addresses 48K
Unicast subnet addresses 16K
Management
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
software stack contains a subnet manager and switch
management tools to include: diagnostics, debugging,
port mirroring, and OpenSM or third-party
subnet manager capability.
Optics/cables QSFP active optical or passive fiber
Blade Interconnects
M-Series Blade I/O Guide
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Cisco
Models
B22DELL FEX 3130X 3130G 3032
Overview
10GbE Nexus Extender
Acts as remote line card of
the parent Nexus switch
fabric. (Models 5548P,
5548UP, or 5596P only)
Catalyst Blade Switches
Basic interconnects for Dell M1000e customers
who want to maintain a Cisco fabric from server to core.
Performance
Speeds 1 & 10GbE 1 & 10GbE 1 GbE 1 GbE
Switch fabric capacity 160 Gbps 160 Gbps 160 Gbps 48 Gbps
Forwarding capacity (Mpps) 297 59 59 36
Latency (Microseconds)
0.8 μs - - -
Ports
Internal blade server ports 16 (1 or 10GbE) 16 (1GbE) 16 (1GbE) 16 (1GbE)
External 1GbE - 4 ports (Base-T)
4 ports (Base-T)
4 ports SFP using modules
External 10GbE 8 ports SFP+
2 ports 10GbE
using modules
-
Expansion modules -
Two slots four options:
• 10GBase-CX4 X2
• 10GBase-SR X2
• 10GBase-LRM X2
• OneX SFP+ Converter*
*Not sold by Dell
Ships with two TwinGig
converter modules that
support 1Gb SFP
(copper or optical)
Features
DCB: PFC, DCBx & ETS Yes - - -
FCoE Yes - - -
Converged iSCSI (LAN & SAN) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Stacking
(Virtual Blade Switch) up to 9 managed at ToR up to 9 up to 9 -
PVST+ Yes Yes Yes Yes
Simplifi ed Networking Mode Managed at Top-of-Rack No No No
Twin-ax cables
1m: SFP-H10GB-CU1M
3m: SFP-H10GB-CU3M
5m: SFP-H10GB-CU5M
7m: SFP-H10GB-ACU7M
10m: SFP-H10GB-ACU10M
1m: SFP-H10GB-CU1M
3m: SFP-H10GB-CU3M
5m: SFP-H10GB-CU5M
N/A
Optical transceivers supported
FET-10G
¹
SFP-10G-SR
SFP-10G-LR
SFP-10G-ER
¹FET-10G optic can only be used
to connect FEX to Nexus
SFP-10G-SR
SFP-RJ45 converter
SFP-LC connector-SWL
SFP-LC connector-LWL
Max L2 & L3 VLANs 4013 1005 / 4096
Link Aggregation (Groups/Members) 96 / 16 48 / 8
Jumbo frames (Bytes) 9216 9216
Max Routes (IPv4 / IPv6) Managed at Top-of-Rack up to 11,000 (IPv4 only)
IPv4 Routing Managed at Top-of-Rack
Ships with IP Base features: Static routes & RIP.
Additional features can be purchased: EIGRP,
OSPF, and BGP as part of IP Services license.
Static routes, RIP,
and EIGRP stub
IPv6 Routing Managed at Top-of-Rack
Available with additional license:
Advanced IP Services feature set.
N/A
Multicast Routing Managed at Top-of-Rack
IGMP, PIM, DVMRP available with
additional IP Services license.
IGMP
1 product / 3 versions
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