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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900
ALCATEL-LUCENT ENTERPRISE DATA SHEET
FEATURES BENEFITS
• Integral operating system advances functions: quality of service
(QoS), access control lists (ACLs), Layer-2/Layer-3 switching, Virtual
LAN (VLAN) stacking and IPv6.
• High-availability hardware Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Virtual Tunnel End Point (VTEP) gateway for network virtualization
supported in OS6900-Q32.
• VXLAN snooping for dynamic real-time multi-tenant visibility and
SLA policy enforcement
• Integrated overlay (VXLAN) and underlay internetworking
automated with OpenStack neutron plug-in
• Intelligent policy control through OpenFlow 1.3.1/1.0.
• Hardware virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) support for VRF-
lite and IP Virtual Private Network (IP VPN)
• The switch architecture simplifies the deployment of converged
storage for FC, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
systems.
• Embedded Software-defined networking (SDN) integration to control
virtual network profiles and policy management.
• VXLAN VTEP allows overlay to underlay bridging and data center
interconnecting.
• Built-in dynamic and automated policy enforcement
• Policy enforcement engine fully open for external control through
RESTful northbound APIs for automation and integration of innovative
applications
• Native and overlay Cloud Multi-tenancy support
• Scalable network virtualization architecture with guaranteed
SLA delivery over standard Ethernet fabric: auto-Fabric IP routing
for routed backbone and access provisioning, SPB for bridging
and routed services, Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB), Multiple VLAN
Registration Protocol (MVRP) and dynamic Virtual Network
Profiles(VNP).
• Zero-touch provisioning and network automation with out-of-the-
box plug-and-play Auto-Fabric for automatic protocol and topology
discovery. Protocol auto-discovery and self-provisioning works
with any Ethernet device that supports standard IEEE protocols,
such as 802.1aq (Shortest Path Bridging-MAC, SPBM), 802.1ak
(MVRP), or 802.3ad/802.1AX (Link Aggregation Control Protocol,
LACP). Auto-fabric operation extends to IP routing protocol
provisioning and IP on-boarding
• Out-of-the-box flexible fabric architecture designed to automate
and simplify the end-to-end deployment of campus, data center, and
cloud-based services.
• Prevent human mistakes by automating standardized and
replicableconfigurations.
• Prevents host address explosion and flooding with built-in SLA
service support at low capital and operating costs and based on
interoperable proven standards.
• Optimizes/simplifies Layer 2 and Layer 3 network designs
and reduces administration overhead while increasing network
capacity with resilient multipath active-active dual homing
multi-chassissupport.
• Out-of-the-box auto-fabric to simplify installation and
serviceprovisioning.
• Automated Cloud Multi-Tenancy support through vNP.
• Virtualized management, control and programmability
• Unified virtual chassis with support for up to 6 switches.
• Flexible and programmable Layer 2, Layer 3, ACL, QoS network
virtualization function abstracted into a single virtual routing and
bridging instance
• Network management virtualization
• Distributed Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) hardware learning
for scalability
• The OmniSwitch 6900 virtual chassis increases system redundancy
and resiliency, providing maximum uptime and high availability in
thenetwork.
• Provides interoperability, investment protection, and flexibility
• Supports pod/mesh and Spine Leaf architectures for
flexibledeployment.
• Virtual chassis topology is flexible to accommodate any
architecture that is needed to meet the desired latency and
oversubscriptionrequirements.
• Comprehensive northbound RESTful API to the entire Alcatel-
Lucent operating system (AOS) feature set.
• API offers access to all AOS CLI commands and all MIB structures
• AOS-embedded scripting capabilities supporting Python and
Bashprogramming.
• The RESTful interface exposes the entire AOS feature set as a
programmable data structure. The API allows external controllers and
applications to control and manage the switch’s data plane and monitor
its counters, statistics and events for the automation of the network.
• N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) FCoE to FC forwarder gateway
supported using the OS-XNI-U12E module.
• FC to FCoE gateway
• FC tunneling over FCoE
• FC inter-switch link (ISL) tunneling, F-port virtualization
• FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping
• Compliant with multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
transit switching based on T11-BB-5 and T11-BB-6.
• Flexible multi-queue IEEE DCB support for FCoE, iSCI and
configurable storage protocol TLV definitions for lossless Ethernet
control.
• Multiple FCoE VLANs and other storage VLANs supported in the
same port with different lossless properties
• Enables the administrator to have a hands-off operation using
application-based dynamic Lossless configuration through Enhanced
Transmission Selection (ETS) or manually engineered lossless tuned
to the application needs. Reduces data center operating costs by
simplifying the convergence of high-performance storage I/O and
mission-critical data into a single multipath infrastructure.
• Simplifies the expansion of FC to FCoE while protecting the existing
investment in FC infrastructure. Allows unified storage attachments for
FC, FCoE, iSCSI and NAS.
• Multi-queue IEEE DCB extends the lossless capability beyond
FCoE to any traffic class in any Class of Service (CoS) queue and for
many queues simultaneously in the same port. Lossless operation
is supported in multiple queues per port for multiples storage
technologies simultaneously.