Specifications

List of figures
Figure 1: Top-of-rack use model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Figure 2: HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Series (power supply side view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 3: HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Power Supply (J9269A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 4: Default airflow direction and connectivity side view of the 6600-24XG switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 5: HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Fan Tray (J9271A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Figure 6: Closeup view of the HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Series LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 7: HP ProCurve 6600-24G Switch—ProVision ASIC architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 8: HP ProCurve 6600-24G-4XG Switch—ProVision ASIC architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 9: HP ProCurve 6600-48G Switch—ProVision ASIC architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 10: HP ProCurve 6600-48G-4XG Switch—ProVision ASIC architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 11: Recommended trunking uplink configuration for the 6600-48G-4XG switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 12: HP ProCurve 6600-24XG Switch—ProVision ASIC architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 13: HP ProCurve 6600 Rack Mount Kit (J9469A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Figure 14: HP 10K Rack Kit (5070-0145). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 15: HP ProCurve 6600 Series Air Plenum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 16: HP ProCurve 6600 Series Air Plenum Kit (J9480A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 17: HP ProCurve 6600-24G/24G-4XG Air Plenum (J9481A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 18: 4-port 10-GbE blocks showing how ports are grouped to a 14.4-Gbps channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 19: 10-GbE module architecture showing four 4 ports grouped to 14.4-Gbps Channel . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 20: Approach for providing 10 Gbps on a specific port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure 21: Providing equally balanced bandwidth in a VRRP environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure A-1: Out-of-band management use model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Figure C-1: PIM: Shared Tree example topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Figure D-1: Virus Throttle example topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Figure E-1: VRRP example topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Figure F-1: OSPF ECMP example topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
List of tables
Table 1: 6600 buffer memory configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table 2: 6600-24G/24G-4XG switches vs. 2910-24G and 3500yl-24G switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Table 3: 6600-48G/48G-4XG switches vs. 2910al-48G and 3500yl-48G switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 4: 6600 series accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Table 5: SFP+ vs. X2 optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Table 6: Capacity, performance, and features comparison of the 6600 series products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Table 7: 6600 series throughput performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Table 8: 6600 series power consumption measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Table 9: Expected energy savings from 6600 Power Save mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Table G-1: LED status indicators for management/system support module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Table G-2: LED status indicators for ProCurve 6600 Switch Series Ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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