Dell Force10

Product Overview
Module 1

Dell Force10
Product
Overview

Explain the technical features of:

Dell Force10 Z9000
Dell Force10 E-Series
Dell Force10 C-Series
Dell Force10 S-Series
Dell Force10 MXL

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Hardware Overview
Hardware Architecture
Capacities & Scalability
Recognize the capacity
capabilities and constraints of
the different platforms

Our Framework for the Network

Virtual Network Architecture (VNA)

Virtual Network Architecture

Open networking framework for
efficient IT infrastructure and
workload intelligence

Data center

Campus, branch, mobility

Converged infrastructure
Scalable fabrics
Automation and orchestration

Anywhere, anytime access

BYOD, desktop virtualization
Ease-of-use manageability

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Virtual Network Architecture

Viewed physically and logically
Physical View

Data Center
Campus
Networking

Logical View

Software
Public Cloud

Network Fabric

Enterprise IT Services
Any Hypervisor

OpenStack

Connection Abstraction Layer

Automation,
Orchestration
& Policy Control

Blade
Infrastructure

SDN Controller

Rack
Infrastructure

Network services
Security
(Firewall, IDS/IPS)

Converged Infrastructure

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Virtual Network & Fabric

Management

SDN Data Plane

WAN/Core

WAN
Optimization

Aggregation/TOR

Load Balancer

Access/Wireless

Custom
Application

Virtual Switch

Physical & Virtual Networking Resources

VNA Product Elements

Dell Networking product portfolio
Top-of-rack

Data
center

Core

S25N/S50N
S25V/S50V
S25P

Management
Z9000

S4820T

S60

S4810

S55

E600/E1200i

Force10 MXL

Blade I/O
M8024-k

M6220

M8428-k

M6348

Access, aggregation, core

Campus
2800

3500

5500

Wireless controller
and access point
Indoor

W-600 Series
W-3000 Series
W-6000/M3

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Z-Series
Product
Overview

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Outdoor

6200

7000

8100

8024

C150/300

Wireless instant
access
points w/ builtin controller

Wireless
guest access
and BYOD

W-series ClearPass

New Paradigm for Scalable Fabric

BEFORE (CENTRALIZED)

AFTER (DISTRIBUTED)*

INTERNET
Up to 16

Search

Z9000 Spine
Nodes or
S4810

32 x
40GbE
Links

16 x
40GbE
Uplinks

Up to 32

E1200
Switch / Routers

Z9000 Leaf
Nodes or
S4810

S-Series
Switch / Routers

Z9000 as 40GE Active Fabric Data

Center Switch

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Product Introduction
Z9000 is a product optimized for high density 40GE and 10GE data center
core application
Key Differentiators
Highest switching capacity (2.5Tbps) in a compact form factor (2RU)
Highest density 10/40GE aggregation switch for Core application
Compact product for End of Row aggregation application
Plug and Play Core restart or replace a switching node in distributed
core without losing entire switching fabric

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Product Overview
Feature

Overview

Chassis

Compact (2RU)

Hardware

Based on 640Gbps NPU and Intel Architecture

Dimensions

3.48 h x 17.32 w x 24" d

Ports

(1) 32x40GE or (2) 128x10GE

Switching Capacity

2.5Tbps non blocking

Redundancy

Fully redundant system Power and Fan

Power

AC and DC power

Hot Swap

Hot swappable power supply and fans

Air Flow

Front to back and back to Front

Buffering

54MB

Latency

<3us (64 byte)

CPU

4 Core x86 CPU. 8GB DRAM

Power

~800W

FTOS

L2, L3, Automation, Virtualization, VLT and EVB Ready

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Z9000 core system

Peak performance, rock-bottom economics

Scaling the data

center core up, down
and out

2.5Tbps in 2RU footprint

High-density networking
32 line rate 40GbE or
128 line rate 10GbE
Low power consumption
800 Watts Max (6.25W per 10GbE)
600 Watts Typical (4.68W per
10GbE)

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Dell Force10 Z9000

High-density 10/40G fabric switch

Scaling the data

center core up, down
and out

Dell Force10 Z9000

2.5Tbps in 2RU footprint

Read the report

Fabric Solutions
www.force10networks.com/tollyreport

Product of the year award

Internet Telephony

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E-Series Product
Overview

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High-density networking
32 line rate 40GbE or
128 line rate 10GbE

Low power consumption

800 Watts Max
(6.25W per 10GbE)
600 Watts Typical
(4.68W per 10GbE)

E-Series Switch Router Chassis

Backplane Capacity
Switching Capacity &
Full Mesh Forwarding
Size

RPMs Slots
Linecard Slots
SFM Slots
Slot Capacity
GigE Cu

Linerate:Total

GigE Fiber Linerate:Total

10 GigE
Linerate:Total
Power Entry Modules

Min FTOS Version

Resiliency &
Redundancy

E1200i

E1200

E600i

5 Tbps
3.75 Tbps
2 BPPS
2 Units/Rack
DC = 36 (21 RU)
AC = 42 (24 RU)
2
14
10 SFM3 (8 reqd)
112.5 Gbps/slot (FDX)
144 MPPS/slot
1260 : 1260
700 : 700
140 : 560
DC: 1 + 1
AC: 3 (same row) + 3

5 Tbps
1.7 Tbps
1 BPPS
2 Units/Rack
DC = 36 (21 RU)

2.7 Tbps
900 Gbps
500 MPPS
3 Units/Rack
28 (16 RU)

2
14
9 SFM/SFM3 (8 reqd)
56.25 Gbps/slot (FDX)
72 MPPS/slot
672 : 1260
672 : 672
56 : 224
DC: 1 + 1

2
7
5 SFM3 (4 reqd)
112.5 Gbps/slot (FDX)
144 MPPS/slot
630 : 630
350 : 350
70:70
DC: 1+1
AC: 3+1 (low line)
2+2 (high line)

EtherScale: n/a
TeraScale: 7.5.1.0
ExaScale: 8.1.1.0

EtherScale: 5.1.1.0
TeraScale: 6.1.1.0
ExaScale: n/a

EtherScale: n/a
TeraScale: 6.5.1.0
ExaScale: 8.1.1.0

Modular FTOS using a 3-CPU Architecture - Active/Standby RPMs, Switch

Fabric, Passive Copper Backplane, ECC Memory, Redundant Power, Hot
Swap, Designed for NEBS (1200/i), L2/L3 Hitless Failover

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The E-Series is Comprised of Different

Chassis and I/O Cards
Two Types of Chassis
1st generation
E600, E1200
2nd generation
E600i, E1200i
Third generation of RPMs and Line-cards
TeraScale (2nd generation)
ExaScale (3rd generation)

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Confidential

E1200 Chassis

Current Support: TeraScale

Route
Processing
Modules
(RPM)

Cable
Management
Fan Tray
Linecards

Switch
Fabric
Modules
(SFM)

Power
Entry
Modules
(PEM)

Air Filter

Rear

Front
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E1200i Front Side Physical Differences

Cover
Plates
9
SFM
Slots

10
SFM
Slots

AC Power
Supply Bay

E1200
(21 RU)
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E1200i-DC
(21 RU)

E1200i-AC
(24 RU)

RPMs Differences
RPM Type

TeraScale (EF)

*Linecard
Support

Flash
Type

Mgt
Port

USB
E600 E1200
Port

EF
EG

CF

10/
100

EH
EJ

CF

10/
A/B
100

1200i

(2nd Generation)

ExaScale (EH)

(3rd Generation)

*NOTE: EF/EG & EH/EJ are part of the software image naming convention.

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Line-card Models Types

Chassis

Type*

CAM

Description

TeraScale

EF

18 Mb

Single CAM

TeraScale

EG

36 Mb

Dual CAM

ExaScale

EH

10 Mb

Switch Line-card

ExaScale

EJ

40 Mb

Router Line-card
- offers full IPv4 Internet Route
capability
- dedicated IPv6 Route capability
- MPLS support

Both chassis types have Line Rate and High Density (HD) Cards
HD cards are oversubscribed

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600i

Switch Fabric Modules (SFM)

SFM
E300/E600/E1200
8:1 redundant (E600 & E1200)
112.5 Gbps per slot for TeraScale cards with 3.125
Gbps clocking
SFM3
E1200i/E600i as well as non-i chassis
Provides 225 Gbps per slot for 3rd generation line
cards with 6.25 Gbps clocking
25W less power consumption than SFMs at 3.125 Gbps
clocking
A chassis (non-i) can not use both SFM and SFM3 at the
same time

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C-Series Product
Overview

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C150 Chassis Details

9 RU chassis
768 Gbps fabric switching capacity
6 modular slots
2 slots for RPMs with integrated switching fabrics
4 line card slots
Fan tray with redundant fans
Side to side chassis airflow
6 load sharing power AC supplies
1200 W AC each
Front to back PSM airflow
Supports PoE(future)
2 load sharing power DC supplies
1400 W DC each
Front to back PEM airflow
No PoE support
Hot insertion and removal of all components
RPMs, line cards and PSMs are shared common components for the CSeries product line
C150 and C300 chassis and fan trays are different

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C300 Chassis Details

13 RU chassis
1.536 Tbps fabric switching capacity
10 modular slots
2 slots for RPMs with integrated switching fabrics
8 line card slots
Fan tray with redundant fans
Side to side chassis airflow
8 load sharing AC power supplies
1200 W AC each
Front to back PSM airflow
Supports PoE (future)
2 load sharing power DC supplies
1400 W DC each
Front to back PEM airflow
No PoE support
Hot insertion and removal of all components
RPMs, line cards and PSMs are shared common components for the C-Series
product line
C150 and C300 chassis and fan trays are different
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C-Series RPM Details

CPU
Console
IBM 640 MHz PowerPC
RJ45 RS232 port (DTE)
750FX
Same as the E-Series
Requires
Memory
DB9 to RJ45 adaptor
1 GB RAM
(included)
128 KB NVRAM
Rollover RJ45 cable
512 MB internal
(not included)
CompactFlash (flash:)
External CompactFlash Management Ethernet
slot (slot0:)
10/100/1000Base-T RJ45
Auto-sensing, auto-MDIX

Console
Pinout
Pin 1

Not Used

Pin 2

DTR

Pin 3

TxD

Pin 4

GND

Pin 5

GND

Pin 6

RxD

Pin 7

DSR

Pin 8

Not Used

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High Availability Features

Redundant RPMs
Hitless failover when traffic is on the same line card
Functional with a single RPM
Installing a 2nd RPM comes on-line as the standby RPM, but can handle half
of the traffic, if needed

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C-Series Line Cards

48-port Line-rate 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45

Auto-negotiation, auto-MDI/MDIX

48-port Line-rate 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45 with PoE

Auto-negotiation, auto-MDI/MDIX

Up to 15.4 W per port

48-port Line-rate 100M/GbE SFP

100Base-FX, 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX,

1000Base-ZX and 1000Base-T SFP modules

4-port Line-rate 10 GbE XFP

SR, LR, ER, ZR, DWDM and CX4 XFP modules

8-port Line-rate 10 GbE XFP

SR, LR, ER, ZR, DWDM and CX4 XFP modules

46-port FlexMedia (36 x 10/100/1000Base-T, 8 x 100M/GbE

SFP, 2 x 10 GbE SFP+)

Auto-negotiation, auto-MDI/MDIX (standard, or

with PoE up to 15.4 W per port)

100Base-FX, 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX,

1000Base-ZX and 1000Base-T SFP modules

SR and LR SFP+ modules

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FlexMedia Line Card Overview

The first 24 10/100/1000Base-T
ports are always line-rate

24 + 12 ports 10/100/1000Base-T
(standard or with PoE)

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The ports on the right side of

the card can be oversubscribed

8 ports
2 ports
SFP
10 GbE SFP+

S-Series
Overview

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Dell Force10 S-Series 4810

High Density 1RU ToR Switch
Up to 64 ports 10GbE in 1RU
48-port 10GbE switch
Plus 4 x 40GbE ports
Ultra low latency (<700ns)
9 MB packet buffer
1.25 Tbps switching capacity
Low power consumption <800watts
Mature Layer 2, Layer 3 FTOS operating system

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S4810 I/O Ports

4 x 40GbE
RJ45/Console

S4810 Chassis I/O side (Back)

48 x 10GbE Ports

10GbE

40GbE QSFP+ connectors

40GbE
split

40GbE QSFP+ Port

S4810 40GbE QSFP+ ports can be split into four 10GbE SFP+ ports
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Ideal Applications for the S4810

Top-of-Rack Switch for

servers with 10GbE NICs

Core Switch for

Small Network

End-of-Row Switch
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Dell Force10 S4820T switch

Accelerate 1G to 10G migration
1/10/40G 10GBase-T top-of-rack switch
Fully-featured FTOS-powered top-of-rack
switch
Supports 1G and 10G copper interfaces (up
to 64 ports)

40G fabric uplinks (max 4 ports)

Built-in automation support for
(bare metal provisioning, scripting,
programmatic management)
Built-in virtualization support
(VMware, Citrix)

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Dell Force10 S4820T switch

High-density, 1RU 48-port 1/10G
BASE-T switch
4 X 40GbE uplinks with non-blocking
line-rate performance
Dell Force10 Operating System
(FTOS)
Optimized for iSCSI, DCB and ToR
applications
Dell 12G rack servers
Blade servers with Force10 MXL
Storage solutions.

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S4820T I/O Ports

48 fixed 10Gbps ports

4 fixed QSFP+ ports
1 USB-B 2.0 port

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S60 I/O Ports

44 port 10/100/1000Base-T fixed ports (ports 0-43)
4 SFP fixed ports (ports 44-47)
2 Optional Slots 1 on I/O Side & 1 on PSU Side
2 port 10GbE, SFP+ Module
2 port 12G Stacking Module
1 port 24G Stacking Module

Stack Unit
display

Management
Console

44 x 10/100/1000Base-T ports

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4 SFP ports

Front
Optional
Module
Slot

Dell Force10 S-Series S60:

Ideal for Virtualized Data Centers
1 RU, 48 Port 10/100/1000Base-T & 2 Optional Slots
Ultra Large, Tunable 1.25GB buffer
Stack up to 8 units
192Gbps switching capacity
Mature FTOS operating system

NEBs Level 3 certified important to service providers

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Force10 S-Series S55

High Performance/Price Data Center Switch
48-port GbE switch
44 ports 10/100/1000Base-T
4 ports SFP
Optional module slots hot-swappable
2x12G stacking
2x10G SFP+
192Gbps switching capacity
Low latency < 5us
1 + 1 Redundant, Hot Swappable Power
Supplies with Integrated Fans
Providing I/O to PSU Side or Reversed
Airflow
AC or DC Power
Mature FTOS operating system
Stack up to 8 units
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S55 View
2 Optional Module
Slot s
Chassis Utility side

Removable Power
Supply

Removable Fan

Removable Fan Removable Power

Supply
RJ45
console

USB Type B
(console)

Chassis I/O side ports

44 x 10/100/1000Base-T ports

4 SFP ports
10/100/1000
Management

Stack Unit
display System
LEDs

USB Type A
(storage)

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Force10 S-Series S50N/V S25N/V

24 or 48 10/100/1000 ports in 1RU
20 or 44 ports
10/100/1000Base-T
4 ports 10/100/1000Base-T
shared with SFP ports
Optional Modules
2-port 10 GbE LAN PHY
(pluggable XFP modules)
2-port 10 GbE (CX4)
2-port 12 Gbps stacking
1-port 24 Gbps stacking
Support jumbo frames
Stack up to 8 units
Mature FTOS Layer 2, Layer 3

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S50N and S50V

48 x RJ45 10/100/1000Base-T auto-sensing, auto-MDIX
4 x SFP GbE ports shared with last 4 RJ45 ports
2 x expansion slots in rear for uplinks or stacking
S50V supports PoE, everything else is the same
Stack ID
LED
Indicator

Status
LEDs

48 x 10/100/1000Base-T ports

Console

Shared
4 RJ45 and 4 SFP

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S25N and S25V

Stack ID
Indicator LED

RJ-45
Console

Ethernet Ports
(10/100/1000)

Shared
SFP Ports
10/100/1000 (21-24)
Ports (21-24)

24 x RJ45 10/100/1000Base-T auto-sensing, auto-MDIX

4 x SFP GbE ports shared with last 4 RJ45 ports
2 x expansion slots in rear for uplinks or stacking
S25V supports PoE, everything else is the same
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Confidential

S25P
24 x GbE or 100Base-FX SFP ports
4 x SFP GbE ports shared with last 4 RJ45 ports
2 x expansion slots in rear for uplinks or stacking

SHARED
4 port Copper/Fiber

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S-Series Stacking 8 or 12 units

8 Units
S50N/V, S25N/V/P
Can stack together
S55
12 Units
S60
Optional modules
and stacking cables
Stacking links are
bi-directional
Use a ring or daisy chain
configuration for resiliency

Note: Stacking is covered in Module 10

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Confidential

Stack Management
A stack management protocol is used to exchange information between
switches
There is one master switch per stack that
handles all management for the stack, and one standby switch
Master election, switch ID numbering
Control and configuration information
Switches can be inserted into a running stack
Pre-provisioning is supported in the CLI configuration

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MXL-Series
Technical
Overview

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Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE Blade Switch

High performance full-featured 1/10/40GbE
Layer 2 & Layer 3 switch blade

High-density 1/10/40GbE blade

Powerful and robust Force10 operating system (FTOS)
Industry standard CLI
Architected & optimized for performance & efficiency
High-density, non-blocking performance
Low latency
Stacking & local switching
Modularity flexibility & scalability
FlexIO modules provides copper/fiber connectivity
Designed for end-to-end converged network
Consolidates Ethernet and FCoE transit into single 10GbE
connection

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Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE Blade Switch

High performance full-featured 1/10/40GbE Layer 2 & Layer 3 switch blade

Flex I/O
Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE Blade Switch

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Internal server
facing ports

Max 32 x GbE/10GbE

External ports

- 2x40GbE fixed ports

- Two optional Flex
I/O modules

Stacking

40GbE ports

OS

FTOS

Robust and scalable I/O

performance, low latency and
high bandwidth

Support for native 40GbE

ports

Supports stacking up to six

units

Open standards-based
feature rich Enterprise FTOS

Converged Ethernet and

FCoE transit support

4-port SFP+ module

1GbE & 10GbE ports
10GbE optical & DAC
copper twin-ax
4-port 10GBASE-T module
2X more than M8024-k
1GbE & 10GbE ports
2-port QSFP+ module
2 x 40GbE ports
10GbE support using
breakout cables

40GbE QSFP+ Transceiver & Cables

40GbE QSFP+ transceivers
40GbE QSFP+ to 4xSFP+
direct attach breakout cable

40GbE QSFP+ direct attach

cable

Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE Switch Features

Enterprise class FTOS Layer 2 & 3 features and industry
standard CLI
Switching

QoS

Routing

Mgmt/ Accounting

4K VLANs

Marking /
Classification: Diffserv,
802.1p

Inter VLAN Routing

Industry standard CLI

128K MAC
802.3ad Link Agg
802.1D Spanning Tree
Protocol

Rate-limiting / Policing
WRED

ICMP/ARP

Stacking

OSPF

Ping, Traceroute

RIP

RADIUS, TACACS+

Static/Default Routes

SSH, Telnet

16K IPv4 routing table

SNMPv1, v2c, v3

802.1s MSTP

DWRR

802.1w RSTP

DCB (Converged IO)

PVST+

VRRP

RMON

DCBx

10K ACL entries

Full Ternary CAM
based FIB

FTP, TFTP client, NTP

client

LLDP

FCoE transit

PVLAN

PFC

IGMP Snooping/
Querier

ETS

DNS client,
BootP/DHCP relay
sFlow

Open Automation

Port mirroring / SPAN

Bare Metal
Provisioning

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Dell Offers Data Center in a Chassis

Integrated Server, Storage, Networking & Management

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First quarter
height blade
(M420)

Industry
Leading 40GbE
DCB blade
switch (MXL)

First enterpriseclass storage

blade (PSM4110)

Integrated
chassis, Storage
& MXL
Management

2X
Compute
Density

Scalable &
Converged
I/O

Integrated
Storage

Simplified
Management

M-Series Ethernet Blade Switches

Product Portfolio Positioning
10/40Gb

M8024-k

Performance / Bandwidth

10/10Gb
1/10Gb

Optional FlexIO Module

(4) Gb/10GbE RJ45 Ports
or
Two Optional FlexIO Modules
(4) Gb/10GbE SFP+ Ports
(2) 10/40GbE Ports
*up-to 6 MXL IOMs stackable

External Ports:
(4) SFP+ Gb/10GbE Ports
Optional FlexIO Module
(2) RJ45 10GBASE-T Ports
or
(3) 10GbE CX4 Ports
or
(4) SFP+ 10GbE Ports
*up-to 6 M8024-k IOMs
stackable

M8428-k
External Ports:
(8) SFP+ 10GbE Ports

Plus
(4) 8Gb Native FC
SAN Ports

FCF

FCoE Transit / FSB

IEEE 802.1Q DCB Ethernet

Cisco 3032 / 3130G/X

M6220

External Ports:
(4) RJ45 GbE Ports
Optional Twingig Modules
(2-4) RJ45 10GbE Ports
(2) SFP+ 10GbE Ports*
*10Gb w/3130X only
**up-to 9 3130G&X IOMs
stackable

External Ports:
(4) RJ45 GbE Ports
Two Optional FlexIO Modules
(2) SFP+ 10GbE Ports
(2) CX4 10GbE Ports
(2) RJ45 10GbE Ports
*up-to 12 M6220s
stackable

M6348
External Ports:
(16) RJ45 GbE Ports
(2) SFP+ 10GbE
(2) CX4 10GbE
*up-to 12 M6348
IOMs &/or PCT 7k
ToR switches
stackable

Server Ports
16

16

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MXL USB Ports

Upper USB port-External
Storage
Lower USB portconsole management
USB Storage Port
USB Console Port

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Dell Force10 MXL

External Ports:
(2) 10/40GbE QSFP+ Ports

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PowerEdge M1000e

Redundant I/O Modules View

A total of 6 I/O
bays per
M1000e blade
enclosure
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Inter-Chassis Stacking with Force10 MXL

Highly scalable solution managed as a one logical device

Key Features

Stacking enables high availability and

high throughput for up to six IOMs
across multiple M1000e modular
enclosures
Stacking enables a single point of
management and NIC teaming
Stacking can use any 40GbE QSFP+
ports (fixed or FlexIO modules)
Stacking is not supported on 10GbE
ports

Stacking can be achieved using direct

attached cable in a ring or daisy chain
topology

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Stacking with Force10 MXL

M1000e

Force10 MXL
Switch

Stacking
at 40GbE

Product
Overview
Summary

You should now be familiar with

the technical features of:
Dell Force10 Z9000
Dell Force10 E-Series
Dell Force10 C-Series
Dell Force10 S-Series
Dell Force10 MXL
Be able to identify the capacity,
capabilities and constraints of the
different Dell Force10 platforms

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