| Module | Feature | Standard/Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Security | RADIUS with EAPOL | IEEE 802.1x |
| TACACS+ | (Cisco) | |
| SCP | ||
| Wire speed filtering: allow and deny | ||
| HTTPS Secure BBI | ||
| SSH v2 | ||
| Secure interface login and password | ||
| MAC address move notification | ||
| Shift B Boot menu (password recovery/factory default) | ||
| SecureID | ||
| LDAP | ||
| CoPP | ||
| Enhanced password security | ||
| VLANs | Port-based VLANs | |
| 4096 VLAN IDs support | IEEE 802.1q | |
| Guest VLAN | IEEE 802.1x | |
| Private VLAN Edge | ||
| Lossless Ethernet | Data Center Bridging/Converged Enhanced Ethernet | IEEE 802.1 |
| Priority based flow control (PFC) | IEEE 802.1Qbb | |
| Enhanced transmission selection (ETS) | IEEE 802.1Qaz | |
| Data center bridge exchange protocol (DCBX) | IEEE 802.1 | |
| FIP snooping | T11/08-079v0 | |
| Fibre Channel/FCoE | FC-BB-5 compliant full fabric switch | T11 FC-BB-5 |
| FCoE | INCITS T11.3, FC-BB-5 | |
| N_Port Virtualization (NPV) Gateway | FC-BB-5 compliant | |
| FC port speeds | 4 Gb and 8 Gb | |
| Bridging to Fibre Channel SANs | ||
| Direct attachment of FCoE targets | ||
| Manageable via ISCLI/BBI | ||
| FC port speeds | 4 Gb and 8 Gb | |
| Fabric services | Fabric services include Name Server, Registered State Change Notification (RSCN), Login services, Zoning | |
| WWN, FCID, or Alias based zoning | ||
| Login load distribution | ||
| FC classes of service | Class 2 and Class 3 | |
| Manageable via ISCLI/BBI | ||
| FCoE LAG | ||
| Trunking | LACP | IEEE 802.3ad |
| Static trunks (EtherChannel) | ||
| Configurable trunk hash algorithm | ||
| Spanning tree | Multiple spanning tree (MSTP) MSTP in stacking mode |
IEEE 802.1s |
| Rapid spanning tree | IEEE 802.1w | |
| BPDU guard | ||
| Root guard | ||
| Loop guard | ||
| Quality of service | Priority queues | SLP allows computers and other devices to find services in a local area network without prior configuration. |
| DSCP remarking | ||
| Metering | ||
| Routing protocols/Layer 3 features | RIP v1/v2 | NOTE: Multiple RFCs |
| OSPF | NOTE: Multiple RFCs including RFC5340 | |
| BGP | NOTE: Multiple RFCs | |
| Dynamic BGP peers | ||
| BGP route-reflector | ||
| BGP Next hop self | ||
| eBGP Multi-hop | ||
| IP interface on physical port | ||
| Policy-based routing | ||
| High availability | Layer 2 failover | |
| Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) | IETF RFC 2338 | |
| Virtual Link Aggregation Groups (vLAG) | Virtual Link Aggregation Groups allow for multi-chassis link aggregation and facilitates active-active uplinks of access layer switches. vLAG with Spanning Tree off helps avoid the wasted bandwidth associated with links blocked by spanning tree. | |
| Multicast | IGMP Snooping v1, v2 and v3 with 4K IGMP groups | IETF RFC 2236, 3376 |
| Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse Mode/Dense Mode |
PIM-SM draft 05 | |
| PIM Sparse Mode with vLAG | ||
| Monitoring | Port mirroring | |
| VLAN mirroring | ||
| ACL notification | ||
| ACL-based mirroring version 5 | ||
| SFlow version 5 | ||
| UDLD | ||
| ERR-disable | ||
| Virtualization | VMready with VI API and pre-configuration of VM OUI MACs | VMready provides Virtual Machine-aware networking for dynamic Virtual Machine mobility using any standard hypervisor. This integration ensures that essential network personality characteristics (VLAN, QoS and ACLs) automatically follow Virtual Machines (VMs) as they move dynamically from server to server across an enterprise datacenter network. VMready is capable of supporting Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) as defined by IEEE 802.1Qbg. |
| Distributed vSwitch and VMware | Supports the IBM Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V and VMware vSphere 5.0 | |
| Unified Fabric Port | Provides a cost-effective way to maximize the benefits of client’s 10 Gb (and higher) physical NICs by letting them allocate, share and dynamically control their network throughput according to their needs. UFP separates server bandwidth into multiple secure channels to serve different applications and traffic types. It dynamically allocates bandwidth as traffic needs change. UFP also works with converged enhanced Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and FIP snooping in standalone (non-stacked) mode.* |
|
| vNIC management through SNMP applications | vNIC carves up a dual-port 10 G adapter into eight virtual NICs (vNICs) and creates dedicated virtual pipes between the adapter and the switch. vNIC functionality provides the ability to dynamically allocate bandwidth per vNIC in increments of 100 Mb. | |
| Management features | FTP | |
| sFTP | ||
| Netboot | ||
| USB boot | ||
| SYSLOG configuration tracking | Logging of all configuration changes include what was changed and the user making the change. | |
| Stacking | Stacking allows multiple switches to behave as a single device, sharing a single IP address utilizing a single configuration file. Stacking allows servers with multiple NICs to utilize LACP to load balance the traffic across their network interfaces and maintain the redundancy of multiple network devices upstream. | |
| LLDP stacking | LLDP is a standards based protocol used by vendors to advertise and discover the identity and capabilities of other devices on the local network. Extending the stacking feature to support LLDP means the stack can now advertise itself to others and be identified as a single unit with the combined features and port capabilities of the stack. | |
| Hybrid Ethernet/Fibre Channel stacking | ||
| Local preference for stacking | Local preference in stacking provides a configuration option where the user can specify the local ports as a preferred path over the shared stacking link. | |
| Logical switch partitioning (SPAR) | SPAR provides the ability to create logical Layer 2 switch partitions within a single physical switch. This provides dedicated port isolation to different networks without incurring the cost of additional hardware. | |
| HOST-RESOURCES-MIB | ||
| SMI-S and SNMP MIB | Support added for IBM Director | |
| Microburst detection | ||
| Clients | isCLI (Cisco-like) | |
| Scriptable CLI | ||
| Browser-based client or telnet | ||
| Management ACLs | ||
| Standard protocols | IPv6 | |
| SNMP v1, v2c and v3 | Supports eight read-only or read-write community strings | |
| RMON | ||
| Dual NTP server support | ||
| DHCP client | ||
| DHCP relay | ||
| DHCP option 82 | ||
| DHCP option 7 | ||
| DHCP option 12 | ||
| DHCP snooping | ||
| LLDP | IEEE 802.1ab | |
| Jumbo Frames | ||
| Flow Control | IEEE 802.3x | |
| OpenFlow | OpenFlow Switch Specification Version 1.0. Also supported in hybrid mode, supporting simultaneous use of OpenFlow and L2/L3 switching ports | |
| Precision Time Protocol (PTP) | PTP synchronizes clocks in a computer network | |
| Service Location Protocol (SLP) | SLP allows computers and other devices to find services in a local area network without prior configuration. | |
| Switch platforms supported* | IBM RackSwitch G8316 | |
| IBM RackSwitch G8264T | ||
| IBM RackSwitch G8264 | ||
| IBM RackSwitch G8264CS | ||
| IBM RackSwitch G8124/G8124E | ||
| IBM RackSwitch G8052 | ||
| IBM RackSwitch G8000 | ||
| Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter | ||
| 1/10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter | ||
| IBM Flex System Fabric CN4093 10 Gb Converged Scalable Switch | ||
| IBM Flex System EN4093 and EN0493R 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Scalable Switch | ||
| IBM Flex System EN2092 1 Gb Ethernet Scalable Switch |
* Not all software features listed in this document are supported on all switch models. For more information on specific feature summaries by platforms, visit: ibm.com/support/documentation and enter in your product name in the “Find and activate a product” field on the top left.
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