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DXS-3600 Series Sales Guide HW: B1. D-Link HQ July, 201 2. D-Link confidential. Contents. Trend of Data Center Target Application Product Overview Hardware Overview Expansion Modules Accessory Software Overview Competitive Comparison & Analysis Art of War
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DXS-3600 Series Sales Guide HW: B1 D-Link HQ July, 2012 D-Link confidential
Contents • Trend of Data Center • Target Application • Product Overview • Hardware Overview • Expansion Modules • Accessory • Software Overview • Competitive Comparison & Analysis • Art of War • Appendix (Technology Brief)
Trend of Data Center • Virtualization • Improve Cost-Efficiency, space utilization and agility. • Reduce IT complexity. • Higher Bandwidth Requirement for Uplink • 10G ToR(Top of Rack) switches to surge to $1B in sales in year 2011 • 40GbE will drive earlier demand for 100GbE uplinks • Consolidation & High Reliability • Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols to support Lossless Ethernet Links • 802.1Qbb PFC (Priority-based Flow Control) • 802.1Qaz ETS (Enhanced Transmission Selection) • 802.1Qau QCN (Congestion Notification) • Consolidation of Fibre Channel & Ethernet • Energy Saving • Lower power consumption
Target Application • Data Center Top-of-Rack (ToR) Switch: • High performance & reliability, low latency,special cooling system design and Data Center Bridging(DCB) features are required to Data Center • Support up to 960Gswitching capacity, 714Mpps forwarding rate, less than 1.93μs latency(DXS-3600-32S) • Virtual/Physical stacking ensures the reliability and enlarges the bandwidth; DXS-3600 supports 480G physical stacking bandwidth. • 1+1 hot swappable, load sharing redundant PSU; 2+1 hot swappable fan try with smart fan design. • Front-to-back air flow. Enterprise Private Cloud CORE VSU RG-S12000 RG-S12000 ToR DGS-3420 DXS-3600 40G Fiber 10G Fiber Stacking Trunking
Target Application • Aggregation Switch of Enterprise/ Campus • DXS-3600 supports 40G uplink to core and 10G downlink to access • High switching capacity with cut through forwarding design to speed up the transmission • L3 routing protocols inside the EI image can build up the dynamic L3 network for enterprise/campus’ core CORE Enterprise Intranet Enterprise Private Cloud RG-S12000 RG-S12000 Aggregation DXS-3600 Access DXS-3600 40G Fiber 10G Fiber Stacking Trunking DGS-3420 DGS-3420 …….. L1 L2 Ln
Target Application • Core Switch of SMB/SME • DXS-3600-16S, an ideal solution to fulfill SMB/SME requirement which needs low density of 10G port and low total cost of ownership(TCO) • High switching capacity with cut through forwarding design to speed up the transmission DXS-3600-16S DXS-3600-16S VRRP DXS-3600-16S DGS-3420 DGS-3420 VRRP DGS-3420 DGS-3420 DGS-1210 DGS-3420 DGS-3420 10G Fiber 1G Ethernet Trunking Gigabit Clients Gigabit Clients Medium SMB Small SMB Small Enterprise Gigabit Clients
Target Application • Aggregation Switch of Carrier’s MPLS Core • Support variety port speeds, 10G or 40G, to fulfill aggregation requirement • High switching capacity with cut through forwarding design to speed up the transmission • Support MPLS and L3 routing protocols to offload effort of MPLS Core DXS-3600 DXS-3600 Service Provider Core Service Provider Access Service Provider Access DXS-3600 DXS-3600
Product Overview Product Configuration Expansion Module: * Only for DXS-3600-32S
Product Overview - Mechanism & ID Design 3 2 1 DXS-3600-32S DXS-3600-16S 4 5 4 DXS-3600-32S DXS-3600-16S 1 • 1 port 10/100/1000Mbps MGMT Port • 1 RJ45 Console port • 1 SD card Interface 4 • Two AC hot-swappable, 1+1 redundancy and load sharing power supplies 5 • Three hot-swappable, 2+1 redundancy fan trays 2 • Fixed 24 SFP+ ports (32S)Fixed 8 SFP+ ports (16S) Dimension: 44mm(H)×506mm(D)×440mm(W) 3 • Expansion Slot
Hardware Overview – Version Notes • B1 R1.10 is not backward compatible with A1 • A1 R1.00 will not be maintained after B1 release • A1 CPU works fine with L2 Data Center feature. For L3 features, we suggest to replace to B1 version. • HQ will provide free CPU daughter board to upgrade the A1 devices to B1 in the future* * CPU board replacement will go though RMA process
Hardware Overview – Cooling System • Optimized cooling system to fit the heat dissipation design of data center: • Customers can choose desired airflow by using different power and fan module which support • Front-to-Back • Back-to-Front Cold Aisle Hot Aisle Hot Aisle Cold Aisle P.S Different airflow modules cannot be mixed.
Hardware Overview– Cooling System Maintain the same airflow direction in a rack to avoid unexpected system crash and extend the lifespan Provide the flexibility to turn the switch front panel to the same side of server ports for better cable management • Keep the same side for DXS-3600’s front panel with server ports to • reduce cable length • simplify cable management. TOP of Rack (ToR) Back-to-front air flow Airflow
Expansion Modules DXS-3600-EM-4XT 4-port 10GBASE-T Dec. 2012 DXS-3600-EM-8T 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Oct. 2012 DXS-3600-EM-4QXS 4-port 40G QSFP+ Nov. 2012 DXS-3600-EM-8XS 8-port 10G SFP+ Sep. 2012 32S only DXS-3600-EM-STACK 2-port 120G CXP Interface Q1 2013
Accessory – Transceiver DEM-431XT (10G Multi-Mode) • DEM-432XT (10G Single-Mode) • 10KM • DEM-433XT (10G Single-Mode) • 40KM • DEMQX01Q-SR (40G QSFP+)* • 100M * 40G QSFP+ will be released in Q4 2012
Accessory – Cables Server farm DGS-3620 • QSFP+ to 4 x SFP+ Splitter Cable • DEM-CB100QXS-4XS splitter cable extends the max. 10G SFP+ port of DXS-3600-16S to 24, DXS-3600-32S to 40 Server farm DGS-3420
Accessory – Power Supply and Fan Module P.S Different airflow module cannot be mixed.
Software Overview– DLMS * future release
Competitive Comparison & Analysis • IS-IS • Super VLAN • IPv6 features • OAM, CFM, MEF 9/14 • No expansion module design • No DC power supply • No cut through switching • No 802.1Qaz, Qbb, Qau • No MPLS DXS-3600-32S • IS-IS, Graceful restart • Super VLAN • OAM, CFM, Y.1731 • No expansion module design • 32K MAC address only • No 802.1Qaz, Qbb, Qau • 12K routing table size only • No MAC, subnet based VLAN • 4 Combo SFP+/10GBASE-T • Graceful restart • No expansion module design • 32K MAC address only • No 802.1Qaz, Qau • 1K VLAN Group only • 3K routing table size only • No BGP, MPLS, L3 VPN • No selective QinQ Performance Huawei S6700-24-EI • L2 switch only • Fixed AC Power supply • No L3 routing, multicast • No cut through switching • 16K MAC address only • VLAN Groups 1K only • No QinQ, 802.1x • Poor QoS functions • No LLDP, DHCP Server • No IPV6 HP 5820AF-24XG • 4 Combo SFP+/10GBASE-T • Graceful restart • IPv6 features • No expansion module design • 32K MAC address only • No cut through switching • No 802.1Qaz, 802.1Qau • No BGP, MPLS, L3 VPN • VLAN Groups 1K only • IGMP snooping groups 1K only • 6K routing table size only Netgear XSM7224S Dell 8024F Pros Cons Juniper EX2500 Price Price: MSRP
Competitive Comparison & Analysis - Key Comparison
Technology Brief – Data Center Bridging(DCB) • IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) • A flow control mechanism that can be controlled independently for each CoS • The goal is to ensure zero loss (lossless) under congestion in DCB network q0 q1 q2 q3 Congestion q4 q5 q6 STOP q7 Pause Source Port 1 Destination Port 1 q0 q1 q2 Remain transmitting q3 q4 Queue 4 congested q5 Pause q6 q7 Destination Port 1 Source Port 1
Technology Brief – Data Center Bridging(DCB) • IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) • Anenhancement of transmission selection to support allocation of bandwidth amongst traffic classes • When a traffic doesn’t use allocated bandwidth, ETS allow other traffic class to use the available bandwidth q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 SP IPC grouping policing q6 SAN – 50% q7 WRR LAN – 50% • Priority Group ID (PGID) = 15A special value indicates the priority is not managed by ETS; this is used for SP • PGID 8 to 14 are not used Inter-Process Communication (IPC) SAN LAN
Technology Brief – Data Center Bridging(DCB) • IEEE 802.1Qau Congestion Notification (QCN) • Enable switch to signal congestion information to end station capable of transmission rate limiting to avoid frame loss • QCN works across a single L2 domain Switch A Switch C Host B Send CNM to RP switch to reduce the transmission Host C 2 4 Switch B 1 Monitoring output queue size 3 Send CNM to end station to reduce the transmission CP RP Host A CP: Congestion Point RP: Reaction Point CNM: Congestion Notification Message
Technology Brief – DCBX • Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) • DCBX allows auto exchange of Ethernet Parameters and Discovery Function between switches and end points • Goals of DCBX: • Discovery of DCB capability in a peer • DBC feature misconfiguration detection • Peer configuration of DCB features Data Center Ethernet Links DCBX Legacy Ethernet Links Legacy Ethernet Network Data Center Ethernet Cloud
Technology Brief – Forwarding Method • Cut Through Switching • DXS-3600 series examines the first 560 bytes to make the forwarding decision in cut through mode to shorten the forwarding latency • Whereas a store-and-forward switch makes a forwarding decision on a data packet after it has received the whole frame and checked its integrity Evaluating 560 bytes and then forward the packet Receiving whole packet and then forward it